Thread:RainEStar/@comment-25542469-20180526163114/@comment-27589621-20180527220011

Not liking guarding because people scarfice on his behalf XD. Oh that's a beautiful bit of a character. It's good that you're trying to avoid the cliched "big-bad forces character growth". If he needs to grow emotionally, this could tie into his sister's growth and devolpment. If they both feel the need to grow strong for/off each other, they'll both be pressured to grow without needing a huge overdramatic atagonist, just a few pressuring events.

Now, Cardfights with something on the line (like Aichi's fight with Kai and his tournament fights) are good way of giving consistent push to the characters. But maybe if there's a personal struggle that's reflecting in his fights he could get a push offf of that? I'm not sure what that would be though.

I can wait for you to upload the supports when you're ready. I run well off ideas alone. Anime traps are... well, they usually creep me out. Aichi  from CFV and Nagisa from Assassination Classroom are actually androgynous, not traps (like that dude from Blend S). The difference being that they look like they could pass for either gender, while traps dress/look/act female while being male. Androgynous characters usually don't care or forget that they don't really look like guys, while most traps attempt to act female for pranking or soem other reason.

Really long rant aside, there's a difference. Bright, light colors with baggy, concealing clothes will help an androgynous character. The clothes are perfectly normal for anyone to where, but if they don't look really amsculine, it's easy to mistake them for a girl. For a trap though, they usually where something explicity "girly". Like bright pink everything. Or girls clothes. Anyways, since you made the comparison to Aichi, I'm guessing you're going for the gender-neutral appearence. With that in mind, hair color and style are also important, especially if paritally covered by a hood.