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Gintama Characters As Flowers, part 15
Jun. 15th, 2024 09:33 pmFoxgloves for Catherine and Tama both!
Why give Catherine and Tama the same flower, when they are quite different people? Let me explain!
I wanted to give Catherine the foxglove for two reasons: foxgloves are associated with secrets and deception, and foxes are seen as cunning, sneaky, unreliable figures in both European and Japanese traditions.
As for Tama, at first I was unsure whether to give her any flower at all - she is proud of being a machine, and needs no biological plant to express herself.
But then I found out that the scientific name for the foxglove genus is Digitalis... which made me go 'hmmm'.
Now, Digitalis simply derives from the Latin word for 'finger', but still! I just couldn't resist it.
Here Tama is holding an artificial imitation of a foxglove, all in angles like pixel art.
Why give Catherine and Tama the same flower, when they are quite different people? Let me explain!
I wanted to give Catherine the foxglove for two reasons: foxgloves are associated with secrets and deception, and foxes are seen as cunning, sneaky, unreliable figures in both European and Japanese traditions.
As for Tama, at first I was unsure whether to give her any flower at all - she is proud of being a machine, and needs no biological plant to express herself.
But then I found out that the scientific name for the foxglove genus is Digitalis... which made me go 'hmmm'.
Now, Digitalis simply derives from the Latin word for 'finger', but still! I just couldn't resist it.
Here Tama is holding an artificial imitation of a foxglove, all in angles like pixel art.