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Nov. 27th, 2022 05:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feotakahariThere’s this game, The Caligula Effect 2, that has a premise that would easily fit with genderqueer representation. It gives a whole bunch of options for what personal fantasy the main character is living out in virtual reality, but unfortunately, none of them are gender-related. I still thought of the main character as transfem, because fuck it, this is supposed to be a blank-slate self-insert character, and I’m inserting myself.
To my surprise, there turned out to be a canonical nonbinary party member, currently presenting as male, but unsure where he’d ultimately land. I talked to him about it, and he asked me if I would have treated him differently if I’d perceived him as female. I said no, because I figured transfem MC wouldn’t care. He thought I was lying and refused to ever speak to me again. I had to rewrite his memory to remove that conversation, then go back and say yes, I’d treat him differently.
That’s the most I’ve ever felt disconnected from one of these “self-insert” characters. Transfem MC would have found a way to explain what she meant.
To my surprise, there turned out to be a canonical nonbinary party member, currently presenting as male, but unsure where he’d ultimately land. I talked to him about it, and he asked me if I would have treated him differently if I’d perceived him as female. I said no, because I figured transfem MC wouldn’t care. He thought I was lying and refused to ever speak to me again. I had to rewrite his memory to remove that conversation, then go back and say yes, I’d treat him differently.
That’s the most I’ve ever felt disconnected from one of these “self-insert” characters. Transfem MC would have found a way to explain what she meant.
