Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26516813-20190711012913/@comment-995426-20190921023418

SarahSpyborg259:

Naming her Alexandra would be like naming her Leonarda, Raffaella, Donatella or Michelangela. A gender flip. And that would be all right if it were just as easily to gender-flip one of the main four turtle templates as it was Alexandros. But the reasons for naming her Alexandra would only be a band-aid for Venus de Milo's template being so sexist to begin with. Better in context to just name her after an actual woman artist, such as Artemisia.

As for Mona Lisa, I was originally neutral to her as I don't like the 1987 TV series anyway. But I couldn't stand the 2012 TV series version of her. Like, at all. And the reason why should be evident in my other response below:

Darth0Gonzo:

Wow, a reimagining of Mona Lisa that doesn't make me immediately gag. My main concern with the Mona Lisa character template is if her preordained purpose is to be someone's love interest. Characters should be paired gradually and organically and not as a foregone conclusion, because there are few things I find more annoying than a shallow love interest, especially one that is high on display and low on appreciable depth or substance. Basically, I like relationships in fiction to be realistically portrayed. And I can more easily accept a new version of Mona Lisa if can stand as an independent character all her own (much like Jennika has for the last two years), without it being assumed she exists or is conceived to be paired with someone.