Something for Auburn and Mona's "Ardhanarishvara"

[anna_luna]

For those of you who haven't read "Ardhanarishvara", it is a wonderful fanfic by auburnnothenna and monanotlisa, where an advanced alien civilization, in order to further enlighten their new business partners, had several members of Sheppard's team genderswitched.

Now this inspired a whole lot of fanart by me and other assorted people.

And now, since Mona's in the hospital and I'd like to make her feel a tiny bit better (if you want to make something for her, there is a community called ficformona), I made these:

Preview:



ETA: I have added a second version of the manip and the graphic after I followed some of icarusancalion's suggestions.



Original version:



New version:



Just the Manip.

I figured, maybe I was going about this business of genderswitching the wrong way: Instead of trying to make John into a woman, maybe I should be trying to make a woman into John. So I used a picture from 'Resident Evil II' and proceeded to give her some of John's features. I felt like a bit of a Frankenstein, adding the nose and the eyes, the shape of the face, the ear and of course, the hair.







This is from the bar scene in Part Eleven.

Comments

[dar-jeeling.livejournal.com]

Oh, you tried it the other way round! Looks nice! I'd love to see the original.

[anna_luna]

Okay, by original do you mean the original Resident Evil II pic or the finished manip before I made it into a graphic?

Also, thanks a lot! I'm glad you think it looks ok, you're the one that started this manipping madness after all :D

[dossier.livejournal.com]

I love the bar scene, and Ronon! Dreads!

I put the two images side by side, and I have to say that is both the most *creepy* (in a good way) and incredible thing ever. It's insane to flip back and forth between them, and yes, that way the changes are obvious, but just looking at the John version? I absolutely couldn't tell, it just looked like John. as a girl. *is totally blown away*

Girl Ronon is exactly like I visualized from the story, and somehow also reminds me of someone I used to know long ago and far away--very familiar.

[anna_luna]

:) Female!Ronon... Female!John... I'm not sure what this says about me.

I'm glad you think they work, it was harder than I originally thought to come up with female version of them.