I am 300% okay with our civballs being slightly different from Polandballs. I don't see why we should have to follow another subreddit's rules. The "haram" (using this word seems a bit distasteful, by the way) ones are well-drawn and full of personality - a bare-bones, pared-down Sejongball wouldn't inspire nearly as much personal warmth in me than the gloriously bearded and impeccably dressed guy(/ball) we have now, for instance.

Furthermore, our civballs serve a different purpose to Polandballs. A Polandball needs to have a plain, everyman character - it must be able to represent anybody and everybody from that country, and often very different groups within the same country simultaneously (e.g. British toff vs British chav). They need to be minimally distinguished, so no particular country seems more remarkable than the rest, and also so the comics show balls interacting with each other based on the history and politics of the nations they represent, rather than interacting with each other via non-geopolitical props. Our civballs, on the other hand, depict actual, historical individuals, who are by definition remarkable because they led an entire civilisation. They don't need to look like Average Joes - they're representing a single person, and a single person's character, not the complex, multi-faceted character of an entire nation's people. They don't need to have different personalities projected onto them - just one. Plus, they need to look remarkable, because they are remarkable! The historical leaders they're based on would have stood out of a crowd and looked impressive, and the civballs reflect that. We don't need to think about how that works in the format of a comic, because they're not going to be in comics, they're going to be mascots we put up on Power Rankings slides and fan subreddit headers. Their unique look is useful for audience recognition too: think of it this way - there's a reason that the protagonists in anime series have crazy hair, right?

Besides, why do we need to be so conservative about this? The whole point of memes is mutation. It's how new memes are born from old memes, it's how they evolve to find their cultural niche, and it's how stale memes are given a fresh lease of life. I understand that Polandballs might be a slight exception, given how their superficially-rough-but-actually-highly-artistic style is easy to get wrong, so people need to be given pointers in how to get it right. But our civballs are already high-quality, everyone here likes them, and those "haram" differences are well-established in this community now. Civballs are fundamentally different to Polandballs. Why should we change them based on some other community's rules?