American Girl + Percy Jackson PicCrew (7/?)
it’s almost the end of the year and i still havent found anyone selling a purple-eyed gwynn. what is the internet even for
corinne and gwynn watch spy x family and corinne’s like “aw that’s cute” meanwhile gwynn is already trying to telepathically communicate with their dog
↳ Gwynn Guang Tan, daughter of Jack and Sally Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Kingdom: Halloweentown
Allegiance: Neutral
Title(s): Pumpkin Princess
Skillset: Cartoon Invulnerability, Intense Precognition and minor ESP, prodigious ice skater
Relationship to Parent(s): Great; Gwynn is an ideal pumpkin princess of Halloweentown, as curious and creative as her father and just as excited to go on adventures and spread holiday spirit, and as such she’s a social darling among the other monsters. Gwynn and Corinne both love Christmastown as much as their father, but after Santa taught Gwynn to figure skate, they found she was instinctively magical on the ice. That’s not the only magic around Gwynn, though; her mother’s precognitive abilities sometimes pop up around her, quite a bit more than her sister, though she can’t often make sense of her strange visions. Perhaps a bit of extra study will do her some good...
“The monsters are all missing and the nightmares can’t be found And in their place, there seems to be good feeling all around Instead of screams, I swear I can hear music in the air The smell of cakes and pies are absolutely everywhere…”
kaicech New (darker) hair and new dolls. 💁🏻♀️ Thank you @americangirlbrand! #gwynntan #corinnetan
ok ok but with the corinne movie. in her first book gwynn skates to “happy” by pharrell williams for her performance. it is very specifically that song. do you think ag will be able to get the rights to it or do you think they’ll awkwardly replace it
when i was 9, i carried around my ivy American Girl doll everywhere. i was obsessed with ivy and jess because they shared my chinese & japanese heritage. i didn’t think there was anything cooler than when i got to be an AG model and saw my posters up at the Grove. kai thought it was pretty cool too. it turns out (for both of us) there was one more thing that’s even just a little bit cooler.😉 to continue representing strong AAPI female role models is such an honor and i’m so excited to work alongside my real life sister. as always, thank you to our awesome team!
swipe to see how it’s going vs. how it started. ⛷🏂⛸⛸
- Miya Cech, instagram 5/11/2022
update on corinne movie rumors: i’m starting one myself bc i have no self control and have a huge special interest in film production
I think that ChaCha Shen may be playing Gwynn. American Girl’s official instagram is following her, and I haven’t found her doing any collabs with them prior to this. She’s a young actress, about 7-9 right now, with the right hairstyle and ethnicity. I don’t know if she can skate, but she is a trained dancer if that means anything...
if we’re getting a corinne movie i demand a scene where gwynn’s eyes go purple as she has a psychic vision. it’s only accurate
please. please. ppl who work at american girl stores. just save one purple-eyed gwynn. save one. i know you're probably supposed to just toss them but just save one i will pay you for it im begging you
i find it personally so fucking funny that american girl keeps forgetting to include SUPER PLOT-RELEVANT accessories for their dolls so now people on etsy have to pick up the slack. like ag you could be making money here but nope! now my money is going to etsy instead of you, dumbasses. also yes i am buying these they look awesome, go support small creators
ok guys let’s talk tan sisters descendants au
we have OPTIONS. organized in no order bc i have NO idea what i’m doing for em
some kind of frozen character
- pros: corinne and gwynn have a very elsa/anna aesthetic, with corinne having the unnatural hair color (in a style reminiscent of movie 2!anna) and gwynn having the two braids. they are also VERY winter-themed and focused on sisterly relationships, and, well, gwynn can easily be slipped into magic.
- cons: i’ve used most frozen characters and got pretty decent placements with them; i like elsamaren!kaya, kirstanna!kirsten and hans!mia. also: aside from the winter sports, their story isn’t very similar to frozen, elsa and anna’s interests aren’t similar to corinne and gwynn’s. there’s also zero connection to corinne’s dog, which is her main interest
roger and anita dearly (101 dalmatians)
- pros: connected completely to the dog interest; 101 takes place around christmas for a winter connection. most importantly, nicki is a foster kid of the dearlys in this au, it would be really cute having her and corinne connect over their similar interests (dogs, skiing, eldest daughter syndrome, etc.)
- cons: the christmas setting is the ONLY winter connection, nothing really good for gwynn’s skating and the girls’ overall interest in winter sports
lee family (turning red)
- pros: we have the magic stuff that ALSO connects to girlhood/sisterhood, animal connection, plot can very easily feed into corinne’s anxiety/stress over being perfect for everyone. they’re a little young to be panda-ing but since when did descendants canon care about that shit let’s give gwynn little ears. corinne’s hair can have red streaks instead of blue. giant fluffy pandas
- cons: the lee family is cantonese and the tan sisters are mandarin chinese (as stated in book 2). we could say their non-lee parent is mandarin but i don’t like the implication that we could be saying “they’re both chinese who cares” cause they’re both?? different and important?? there is also still no winter connection
jim dear and darling (lady and the tramp)
- pros: connected completely to the dog interest, and flurry VERY MUCH looks like a mutt mix of lady and tramp. the christmas setting is more defined and marketed so there’s our winter. corinne and gwynn can still have a connection with nicki as they’d probably be dog-focused households. we can shift canon so corinne is the baby from the movie how cute would that be
- cons: again, it’s a winter setting but not super connected to the sporting. it also doesn’t give the girls a LOT to do as jim dear and darling are pretty bland characters, but i’ve come up with fun plots with less so that is NOT a dealbreaker
shan yu (mulan)
- pros: winter-themed, animal-training, dark!gwynn would be fun, i need more isle kids
- cons: the huns’ history isn’t too well-known but they’re speculated to be kazakh, but anyway they’re likely not chinese and while mulan is set in china i don’t know if i like just saying “well they’re asian” y’know?? this is probably the least likely but i do like the idea of corinne and gwynn as isle kids so if anyone has any other villain ideas
jack and sally skellington (nightmare before christmas)
- pros: christmas is a huge part of the plot so we got our winter theme. flurry can be a ghost dog. we can come up with cool-ass monster designs for our girls. sally can see the future she could’ve passed that gift onto gwynn. this movie has the coolest aesthetic i love it so much
- cons: still no skiing. movie is also very halloween do i wanna save it for a halloween-based girl? would ag ever woman up and do a creepy goth girl?? i mean we still have oogie-boogie for that if i use the skellingtons for the tans but
anyway. girls help
some art for psychic gwynn :)
i don't care that the purple eyed gwynns are proof of bad quality and cheap shortcuts used by ag bc they're also the funniest thing that could've happened