palletepanda

[palletepanda]

I want to start this off by saying you can have your own gender headcanons for characters. I don’t really care what people want to believe when it comes to their favorite characters, this is just something that when I think about it makes me think… huh, weird.

Anyway what im writing about now is that sometimes… i dont understand certain trans headcanons. Not it terms of why they exist but in terms of i think you got the wrong gender.

This mostly comes from two characters I love, those being Noato from persona 4 and Firefly from honkai star rail.

Firefly is the less… i feel the word egregious is too strong but i cant think of anything else, of these two characters. She’s a lab grown soldier made to pilot a male presenting mech named SAM who due to being lab grown has an illness that is slowly killing her, which she can only really slow down by staying inside SAM.

Naoto on the other hand is a detective in p4 who is initially believed to be a boy who we eventually find out is a girl in boy’s clothing, and she eventually comes to accept the feminine side of herself through the games events.

Now the thing that makes me think “huh, weird” when it comes to these two characters is that ive seen trans men headcanons for these characters, when i personally see them both working better as trans women. I think what my differentiate me between the people who see trans male where i see trans female is that i focus more on what the stories are actually telling us (again this is not an attack on anyone just how im reading their stories through a transgender lens).

Like firefly is someone with a disease thats slowly killing her if she doesn’t stay inside sam, her more male presenting persona, but being firefly, her female presenting persona, is what she longs for. Its why she enjoys the dream world of penacony so much, its why she’s working with the stellaron hunters, being able to be firefly and not be shackled to sam is her primary motivation for everything she does.

And naoto to me at least always felt like a trans woman who was worried about the consequences of transitioning. To me it felt like naoto worried about how being a woman would negatively effect her dream of becoming a detective, and how people would see her, and maybe even if she’d have to give up on some of the thing she enjoys, like the clothes she wears or her preferences in media.

Like she reads to me as someone who is aware theyre trans, wants to transition, but is afraid of what that would do to her life, but through the acceptance of their friends comes to accept that, as naoto herself puts it, “I am a woman.”

And yeah I wouldn’t call p4 the most progressive game out there but i remember seeing some “disappointed on how naoto’s gender was handled” comments when i was more into the p4 fandom and couldn’t help but think “i think that’s maybe because you’re looking at it the wrong way, and if you look at it this way it actually works way better in the context of the story we were given.”

Anyway, why did i write this again…? Oh yeah, because these thoughts randomly popped into my head again and its late and maybe if i actually post them somewhere they won’t invade my mind again :p

(Or maybe its just cause of the p4 revival announcement (it should have been rerun, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN RERUN))

And once again, this is not supposed to be an attack on anyone. If you like viewing these characters as trans male, cool. If you like viewing them as trans fem, also cool. If you like these characters, don’t like them, or don’t even know who tf im talking about, also cool. Idc you do you and have fun doing it.

Imma go back to drawing characters for the fighting game in my head now :D