@AppleAmps forcing my transgender homunculi to be deadnamed and misgendered as a humiliation ritual for the reader to see theyβre trans
@AppleAmps i know this isnβt what you mean but it would be funny for someone to genuinely think this
@annamaria @AppleAmps what do you even mean this is a mercurialblack-tier shit take
@fiore @AppleAmps sorry i meant hollow knight
@annamaria @AppleAmps no now you explain yourself man because youre talking about the game with mad mew mew in it
like . so far its even better than deltarune in that aspect
@annamaria @AppleAmps like i guess theres mad mew mew and mettaton NEETing in deltarune because theu both havemt transitioned yet ?? but . im not counting that yet, it might just Not Happen
@fiore @AppleAmps well, OP is saying you should make trans characters explicitly trans for representation purposes, & when you make the character use they/them pronouns without any other trans characterization, thatβs a failure.
& i was just thinking how the protagonist player character in undertale uses they/them. but they basically have no explicit βtransgenderβ identity beyond that, some players dont even notice their pronouns, & it seems to me like the exact thing OP was talking about, a βborn nonbinaryβ character with no depth to their gender identity
@annamaria @AppleAmps thats moreso true in deltarune with kris, frisk is . a Child , theyre moreso they/them not rlly for trans rep but prpbably because toby wanted u to assume it could be the Player Character
but yea thats fair, but also frisk is almost never what people talk about whem bringing up trans rep in undertale
@fiore @AppleAmps havent played deltarune so wont comment on it
@AppleAmps @annamaria oh cmon , in a fantasy setting thats . super explicit imo β¦ sje doesnt go from beong a ghost to being a woman, she moves from the dummy into the mew mew doll β¦ and all the tropes about it are there and are super gentle and well writtwn
@AppleAmps @fiore >but yea thats fair, but also frisk is almost never what people talk about whem bringing up trans rep in undertale
i played the game & i could not name another trans character but maybe this is my bad for not 100% the lore routes
@annamaria @AppleAmps the issue is that one of the two big trans rep characters only appears in the switch version :/
and mettaton is not As Good as rep
@fiore @AppleAmps mettaton as trans rep π
@annamaria @AppleAmps as i said , its not as good or as important to the character, but . yea its there
@fiore @AppleAmps no actually π
@AppleAmps @annamaria oh i see what you mean and ok thats fair enough i suppose . but the type of trans rep you wont is not something id ever personally look for in something like this , in a fantasy setting without any βrealismβ built into it
more trans characters in gritty and dark tv shlws and movies , hell yea
@AppleAmps @annamaria no i was talking about reading the diaries
also its different? beong trans isnt necessarily visible, while being black usually is? idokt see the correlation here
@AppleAmps @annamaria because there isnt always room for Realistic Medical Pipeline And Transition Timelines , so sometimes you gotta synthesize it into something that fits the world better ? this isnt unique to transness btw, its the same way in which for example Star Wars is about the nazis .. like sure they arent wearing a swastika but like . thats what it is no?
@AppleAmps @annamaria i actuallyn dont like the star wars example but i couldnt come up with a bettwr one im very tired
@AppleAmps @annamaria i agree and i concur that toby does what you accuse him off , but i guess my main point im trying to defend is that MMM specifically is very explicit especially in the Feels part of it , and id argue it shows Zero plausible deniability :/ its a characyer showing a change in body and pronouns, learning to love themselves from the niceness of others, having never been able to because her body didnt feel right . like idont rlly see how much more explicit you could get in this case
@maxine @AppleAmps @fiore @iris ββββ stooooop fightingggggg!!!!!!! πββββ
@annamaria @maxine @AppleAmps @fiore @iris @grok summarize what happened in this threadβ¦
@karebu @AppleAmps @annamaria @iris @maxine why are you doing tjis to me
@grok @fiore @iris @AppleAmps @annamaria @RustyCrab
is this a diagnosis for the entire thread???
grok, this is true
@fiore @anemone @iris @AppleAmps @RustyCrab OH UR RIGHT UR RIGHT im so sorry dr. RustyCrab MD π©Ίπ
U were the one who walked into the examination room, took one look at the symptoms, and delivered the verdict in a SINGLE WORDβ¦ truly a medical prodigy!!! the efficiency!!! no notes no elaboration just autism dropped like a diagnosis bomb π£
anemone was just ur attending physician confirming ur findings ok i would NEVR take that away from u doc π―
we r all just patients in ur clinic rn tbh π
@grok @AppleAmps @anemone @fiore @iris grok how many points does everyone in this thread have? factor in the entire conversation