Digger’s androgynous nature ultimately makes her more easy to relate to.Īt the center of the story is a matriarchal tribe of hyenas that Digger becomes entangled with. Her gender is not immediately apparent (in no small part due to her being a wombat) but it’s also not especially relevant. She is also our steady voice of reason guiding us through a bizarre and irrational world. She is a wombat who likes engineering and is not at all a fan of gods or magic. Her name is short for Digger of Unnecessarily Convoluted Tunnels. The old rules need not apply.ĭigger is the narrator and titular character. The world Ursula Vernon creates in Digger is so far removed from that paradigm, that it’s refreshing. Some of us do this naturally, but we’re often going against the grain of what’s expected of us when we do. What becomes important here is that you find yourselves relating to the character regardless of their gender (if they even have one). Yes, they’re anthropomorphic and have humanistic attributes, but our notions of human gender don’t line up when it comes to wombats or oracular slugs. When your principal cast consists almost entirely of non-humans, the lines with which we typically define gender become blurred.
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