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feotakaharihttps://vraikaiser.com/2019/02/01/do-this-not-that-trans-coded-characters-the-vision-of-escaflowne-vs-persona-4/
I'm linking this because I really, really hate Persona 4, and Vrai does a great job of explaining why one specific aspect of the game "hits every branch of the “fuck you” tree on the way to rock bottom." I'd actually go farther than Vrai does: almost every character arc other than Kanji is like this in one way or another, and the main difference is which aspect of their assigned social role the character is "confused" about and needs to learn to passively accept.
I'm linking this because I really, really hate Persona 4, and Vrai does a great job of explaining why one specific aspect of the game "hits every branch of the “fuck you” tree on the way to rock bottom." I'd actually go farther than Vrai does: almost every character arc other than Kanji is like this in one way or another, and the main difference is which aspect of their assigned social role the character is "confused" about and needs to learn to passively accept.
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Date: 2019-02-08 11:06 pm (UTC)EDIT: Okay, now that I've actually READ the stupid essay (got distracted by link-jumping through all its sources).
And... in hindsight yeah. I wrote a couple Persona 4 works on request for folks, and kinda made it what I WANTED it to be... but it was definitely something I created IN IT, not intrinsically there. I think I was desperate enough for ANY transness that I was willing to put up with more bullshit than usual.