Beth/Ben: Thinking about dude Beth, we’ll call him Ben I guess, actually makes you realize what an abusive monster Beth is.  Like imagining Ben treating Jeraldine the way Beth treats Jerry?  Fuck that’s a seriously abusive relationship.  Like Beth has essentially prevented Jerry from ever growing up and has crushed every trace of agency and personality from him.  Imagining cowering none too bright Jeraldine with shitty nasty but smart Dr. Ben is awful.  Probably gives his mom shit for failing to do feminine gendered labor.

Sort of like this

But a monster

Jerry/Jeraldine: A severely battered wife, chosen for vulnerability because Ben has abandonment issues from his ma, terrified of her husband, desperate for her daughter’s approval.  Trying really really hard not to show the hell she’s going through.  Emotionally vulnerable

Summer/Winter: Probably like a together punk or emo dude, like a better looking more together version of Robbie from Gravity Falls, you know, moody, grouchy, can be a real dick, but basically decent underneath it all, way more together than his family and kind of smug about it.  Has a decent job, does okay when it comes to girls, all around a together if moody and often self centered guy.

So kind of this genre of look-ish:

Morty/Molly: Basically like Meg from the early seasons of Family Guy (so good hearted, basically of unremarkable appearance and intelligence, unglamorous, but you know fundamentally a decent human being and all) with a little bit of Tina from Bob’s Burgers (kinda pervy, kinda weird).  People tend to draw this one pretty much right.

Rick/Rochelle: Okay so the “absolute genius and total wreck of a human being” isn’t a character archetype that’s almost ever female,  like male examples include House, Hunter S. Thompson and kind of the whole Keith Richards variety of rockstar.  It was actually really interesting to think about what the lady equivalent is, and what I came up with is interesting, generally the whole wildly inconsistent, self destructive genius thing in women is accompanied by being kind of glam, like Cat Marnell or Amy Winehouse, and actually the male examples are too, but it’s just buried under a layer of drab masculinity, so like House has his motorcycle and flash electric guitars, and Hunter S Thompson has wild clothes and badass cars and Keith Richards is Keith Richards and even Rick has a kind of weird charisma and parties like a rockstar. So Rochelle is a lady with a mess of a beehive, and fabulous makeup that’s kind of caked on that she’s been wearing for three days, and like she’s probably broken a heel on her fabulous shoe.  She’s kind of an aging drunk cabaret diva, kind of a 65 year old nihilist party girl, and absolutely the least nurturing person on earth.  She doesn’t have the moral compass to be an actual feminist, but fucking hates sexism because she’s had to put up with it for fucking ever.  Probably tells Winter “Eh you’re a whiny little boy” when he asks why she won’t take him on adventures, probably makes fun of Molly’s fashion sense.  Dealing with dude scientists in like the 60s is probably one of the reasons she left earth, would tell Ben the fuck off (but also be nasty to Jeraldine for taking his shit, because again Rochelle is a horrible person).  Has sex with the pool boy.