featuring a demon character that was taken from the painting Fire Demon by Frank Frazetta, which was used as the cover of the Swords Against Darkness fantasy anthology.
Really happy someone redrew this but with hanfu and kimono, like in the original, and not swapping out the hanfu for hanbok, as has happened with redraws of this image before.
Is it yuri if they're both women, but one of them is playing a male character? Semi-serious question.
(If you don't know: Gigi forgot that the brief for ENigmatic Recollection's characters was "yourself, but with amnesia" and created a male persona for herself in the game. In practice, it was left undetermined whether Sir Gonathan G actually was a man who happened to look like Gigi, or Gigi herself, so profoundly disoriented that she didn't notice she wasn't a man.)
Is it yuri if they're both women, but one of them is playing a male character? Semi-serious question.
(If you don't know: Gigi forgot that the brief for ENigmatic Recollection's characters was "yourself, but with amnesia" and created a male persona for herself in the game. In practice, it was left undetermined whether Sir Gonathan G actually was a man who happened to look like Gigi, or Gigi herself, so profoundly disoriented that she didn't notice she wasn't a man.)
It's tag what you see, not what you know, and while Gonathan G identifies as a man that's still just Gigi, who is definitely a girl. I.e. If this was Romeo and Juliette with Gigi and Romeo and Juliette as Ame, it'll still be yuri even if Gigi "Romeo" acts and is identified as a male character.
Gregor, Sinclair, Yi Sang, Ishmael and Heathcliff: "I must confront my past, and in doing so, realize the potential of my future. My trauma is my strength."
In a Pokémon fanfic I've read called Ashes of the Past, Ash's Squirtle is actually a huge Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann fan. Check it out, if only for Kamina Squirtle.