As I'm writing this text, I am engaged in an argument at
/co/ about the subject of
Danny Phantom toonrotica. I was requested to draw a pic of Jack Fenton doing his wife, the always delicious MILF Maddie Fenton. I replied with a playful "do I really have to", although there was some seriousness in my reply as I didn't really want to waste a Maddie pic by pairing him with Jack.
Anon soon replied "
You draw her with VLAD, dude. WTF?!"
Naturally, I asked what the problem was and I received a rather simple reply: "
it's Vlad". Of course, that still doesn't answer my question. Why is Vlad a problem? Is it because of how he looks? Is it due to his actions in the final season? Am I pissing off yaoi fan girls by shattering their dreams about Vlad/Danny 'shipping by reminding of the harsh
canon where Vlad obsesses over Maddie and is madly in love with her instead of her son?
Anyway, now I'm going besides the point. That is, my refusal to draw Jack Fenton in an erotic situation. Why?
Three reasons:
1) Jack's usually a bumbling idiot and a continuous source for slapstick humour in the series. One of the jokes is that he's not really much of a romantic type, at least not the correct type. Sure, he loves his wife and all but he's far from the sort of type you'd imagine getting physical with his wife. I usually tend to avoid totally random pairings in my art - you know,
the sort of soulless crap you usually see on those cheap-ass paysites. I want my art to have a bit of meaning, a small story or some sort of reason behind the pic. You can't really achieve that with Jack, it doesn't have the same effect behind it.
2) his body structure is essentially that of a very large square. And since it's very large, it can block other characters from view. This can be circumvented by using poses where he's mostly in the background, but it may quickly become repetitive.
3) as sort of a continuation to my previous point, Jack's looks are simply just too non-appealing for toonrotica. Some of you might argue that it doesn't matter since you'll all be looking at the female characters anyway, but putting all the homophobia besides for a few seconds, I beg you to
seriously think about it: would you
really want all male porn actors to be overweight, hairy and greasy instead of usually taking care that at least one of those aspects won't be associated with them? I know some people that can't get over
Ron Jeremy despite him starring alongside some of the more legendary porn starlets of all time. Same thing with Jack Fenton.
Anyway, I now hope that you understand my point. I also suspect that other artists feel the same way, as it might be one of the reasons why Maddie usually gets paired with Danny in toonrotica.
I
might do a Jack/Maddie pic someday, though, although it'll probably work as more of a gag pic (heh, maybe even
literally, if you catch my drift). I might also do a Ron Jeremy comparison there by giving Jack a monstrous cock which drives Maddie crazy of pleasure. The whole thing will probably be dedicated to
Turk128. Just don't wait for that pic to appear in the next, say, eight months or so.
EDIT (3/2): ThaMan commented on this post on his blog.
Check it out, he raises a pretty good point in defense of those who want to see some Jack/Maddie art. I do have to argue that I wouldn't expect such reasons for the pairing from Anonymous, hence why it never even crossed my mind in my original post.
