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Just something funny I thought about drawing. (...it keeps making me want to laugh at him when looking at it) Do you like it, hate it, are somewhere in-between?

I had a fanfiction idea awhile ago about Mozenrath kind of accidentally ticking off Mirage with some comment, and she decides to teach him quite a lesson (as well as cut off their deal and put Mozenrath in the trap with Aladdin's group). I got the idea from seeing some genderbent fanfictions in other fandoms (and I think there was also an Aladdin one I'd found), and also thinking about how some people say Mozenrath looks girly. ...I don't really think he does. I think that if he were a girl as is, he'd be an odd-looking one. He's tall, has a big chin, big nose, low voice. He seems kind of masculine to me. But, I kind of liked the idea of thinking about how he might look different if he were a girl.
I also don't like how some gender-bent fanfics work. Why would everyone start making you wear make-up and put on dresses and call you 'she'? Why would your hair unexplainably be longer when switching genders? As far as I know, girls' and boys' hair grows to the same length (which isn't even relevant unless the character hasn't cut their hair in seven years). - Though, in this case, I just thought it would be funny to have Mirage make his hair longer just to make the situation that much worse for him (though, there's also people who think Mozenrath has long hair tucked under his turban somewhere - could be, though I like to think his hair is a similar length to Aladdin's).
I also think Mozenrath seems kind of sexist in the show, seeming to think women are weak, dainty, and all that (like, in every episode that he's around Jasmine. He's all the time making comments, and I kind of doubt he knows any better). If turned into a girl, he'd probably start panicking and thinking he'll get irrational impulses to paint his fingernails.

I probably failed at making him look girlish, though. Let me know if there's something that could be edited to make him look less boyish or something. But, I figured he'd have a smaller chin, a bit smaller nose, wider hips, and probably only be around Aladdin's height (since I think Aladdin's on the short side) as a girl. (but I also tried to keep the shape of his nose and stuff similar, as well as keeping his default angry expression and the little crease that forms between his eyebrows) (His irises and lips are a stylistic thing and not something specifically changed for this pic)
I left the lineart rough (and didn't do much for a bg), but I did fiddle with the coloring quite a bit to match up with the blue bg (or, pre-bg blue sheet) that I had (and I used a few screenshots as reference for the pic - pose-wise, girls'-faces-wise, color-wise, background-wise). ...Sorry about them facing different directions. I had considered drawing them from the sides, but I thought it would be harder to tell what he looks like that way (...and maybe partly because 3/4 view is the easiest to draw). ...I probably made his waist too low. Even though I had moved it up a little already. I had thought about drawing in a rip or straining fabric around his hips, but I wasn't sure how to go about it, and I ended up forgetting.

A few lines about what I thought about being said here:
Jasmine: "Mozenrath, it's just an illusion."
Mozenrath: (gestures or grabs excess fabric or something) "You call this an illusion?!"
Aladdin: "I don't know what the big deal is; you kind of looked like a girl already."
Mozenrath: "I did not look like a girl!"

Edit: I gave Aladdin's hair a bit more lift (especially his bangs, which weren't quite right before), and let him have his fez. I also tried to add in the seam/crease line on Mozenrath's pants (and now I have one more thing to laugh at).
Edit 2: Mozenrath's eyes seemed slightly off somehow, so I went through several possible adjustments (make eyes 110% larger, 105% larger, move eyes downward to show more of the lids plus 103% larger, move eyes down and move eyebrows up with more of a downward angle and/or put eyebrows closer together) before deciding on making them slightly larger and slightly more tilted (I think this is 105% and tilted 4°). I also made the straining fabric holes at his hip a little more rounded because I thought it would be more realistic. You probably can't tell the difference about either of these changes. I probably should have tried playing around with the outline for the back of his hair, since it seems like it might be hugging his head too much, but I guess I didn't feel like messing around with it after messing around with his eyes. ...Has anyone noticed that I have his hair drapping over his shoulders like how his turban usually does? I figured that was a neat way of having some compare-contrast stuff going on. It would've been clearer if his hair wasn't the same color as that part of his outfit, though. It would have been funnier if Mirage had changed all the black of his outfit to hot pink. ...link: Not one word
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Mozenwrath taking it personally...