It should have been a dude. I mean, there’s precedent for Makoto being in a male body, so why not?

But seriously, for an entire story that is built around the concept of identity, how malleable that is, what it means to be someone, and the natural and unnatural limits placed on humanity, it seems sort of short sighted…

Can’t wait for the salt and pearl clutching.

Call it what you want. Your words are, essentially, meaningless to me. If that offends you...I don’t really care. It’s not because your opinions aren’t valid or anything, but your anger is misdirected and I can’t fault you for being incorrect, I can only offer you the correct information, but since you are calling me…

Well, thank you for telling me what I want. I’m glad you cleared that up.

But, here, let me tell you the truth: I don’t consider them “poor transgendered folk.” In fact, I rarely consider “poor anybodies” because life sucks, you get over it, or you do something, or you whine. That’s true for everybody.

Secondly, I have…

In local languages...yes. And since they didn’t have a linguist to make up the entire Wakandan language, they used English. And no, Australia isn’t an outlier. I mean here you go. More cities in just the US named after animals. Cities! Just cities. Natural locations? Lets look at rivers:

And sort of an odd comparison to Poison, too. It’s a woman! No, you can’t hit women! Okay, fine, he’s a cross dresser. No, now she’s trans. It’s all very...odd.

Birdo is legit.

If it’s important enough that it earns him a nickname, I’d think it’d be more relevant. XD

Yeah...I mean...it’s weird, but how is Mizhena any more odd to someone in that world than Minsc or goddamn Dynaheir.

And again, this has been going on for years, it just depends on a) who is doing the uproar and b) who is letting others know that there is an uproar.

For instance, take Erica from Catherine who it is revealed to be trans...but guess who was upset about that? People in the trans community. No general outcry. Same for…

So, just to clarify, by that logic, only 12-14% of video game characters from the US should be black, yes? Where do mulattos fit in? I’m just trying to figure out where the conflation between demographic statistics and tokenism gets drawn so I know which side to be on.

Actually, that’s always been an issue. Going back for years. The issue is just who raises a stink about what thing.

Okay, fair enough. Maybe it was the lack of comparable specificity with other NPCs that made it seem odd. *shrug*

And to be fair, two of the four options get you the continued dialogue, but eh.

There have been a number of trans characters in video games. Not many, but, frankly, we are talking about a pretty small portion of the population AND the fact that inclusion almost always ends up being some big thing, because it pisses someone off: either someone is pissed that they were included, or someone is…

To me, and this is my take on it, is that it seems like a big, really, really specific information dump for a throwaway character. It’s like ordering at McDonald’s and the cashier telling you about their entire high school career. It’s not that the information is bad, it’s not that information is irrelevant, but it’s…

Because tokenism is bad? Because meeting a character and within two dialogue choices goes into their life story about how they were raised?

It would be like this:
“Greetings, traveller.”
“Greetings. I’ve come looking for supp—”
“My name is Zerquinfalorius.”
“Interesting name, but I just want—”
“Let me tell you of my past,…

Wow, that’s exactly how I felt about the whole Tracer debacle!

You can’t have geographical features named after animals...especially animals venerated by the fictional people of the place?

Well...someone needs to go rename like 90% of Australia, because that’s about how much is named after animals or, you know, colors in local Aboriginal dialects.

In the US alone there are 20+…

Then we are talking about two very different things and this entire conversation has been largely pointless. Whee.