In Captain’s Gambit, our cast of characters involves aliens, but of course based on Shakespearian characters from centuries ago.

While we’ve kept the names and pronouns of the original characters, it was a conscious decision to design the female captains as such that we didn’t give them all cis-mammal-human characteristics.

The art and character designs that we went for might look inconsequential, but the design behind them is actually a little complicated. The question boils down to this: how do you make representation of women obvious, without perpetuating stereotypes about what defines womanhood?