Thread:Jeffrey Penguin/@comment-31764595-20191028221818/@comment-27881268-20191117065424

Well... really, it was just Mangle itself. I wanted to come up with some kind of explanation for that noise that Mangle always emits, and the first thing I thought of was a lack of full control. Maybe the child possessing it wasn’t very good at getting along in life and needed help, unable to control the things they have no control over. Going off of that, Whitney’s character was born. Now obviously I don’t think poorly of people on the spectrum and set Whitney as a stereotype of that, it was just the direction I wanted.

The name for Whitney was actually based on all the gender controversies with Mangle, since nobody know if he’s a boy or if she’s a girl. So I picked a genderfluid name, since Whitney could work for both (though when I refer to them I usually use male pronouns so they’re probably a dude).