I also toyed with giving him a couple little antennae decor bits, as seen in the lower left. If I'm going the flower mantis route, in some species males have big long pectinate antennae, so like a big long comb, but I also didn't want to make them too far off from the silhoeutte. idk, we'll see.

I didn't base him on a specific mantis species, I took elements from a few species. Somewhere between a shield mantis and a giant devil's flower mantis for the upper back carapace, vague inspo between an Asian flower mantis and European mantis for the wings.

Someone actually did the math and Silksong's ratio of male-to-female characters is pretty evenly split, but I feel like a good chunk of the guys are secondary characters to some degree, and more of the female NPCs are important to the game in some way.

I thought so too, until they referred to him with male pronouns in all the official material and in-game!

They’re cool! I love their design and all the lore either outright stated or implied by exploring the citadel.

sorry I forgot the art tag, had to repost