#''it's me lo cocodrilo Definitely Cis'' (did not say this one) a trans man could also

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also going like "yeah on the skating on the Surface level queercoding for villainy, comedy, & [not our heroic lead] in many cinematic genres including the spaghetti western (yet, oh you know. as though intention to do so ever shut out queerness, including even deliberate use of queercoding as established convention as that embraced vehicle for any deliberate invocation / recreation of queerness) is that primary vehicle through which our funny sidekick & villain can be Outside proper(tm) cishet conventions, & it will be a subtextual read to go 'oh shit are they gay fr' (yes) but that that subtext needn't contradict the text & its themes & like in bloodsong of love it's very much like hey we'll be going at least a layer or two or three below the very surface In The Text Itself even, story told about storytelling which is perhaps within a story (within a story?) & that yknow interpret things however & lord knows joe iconis isn't going to stop you or be like Wrong or be like yeah i think a work's full potential is found in decisively moving Away from queerness (or wanting to lock down, fossilize, constrict, contain Its Meaning generally)"

which is all to say Trans Rights Of A Man To Be A Short King

lo cocodrilo also Textually short & gifting us that scintillating commentary on Power & what is conventionally inferred to impose a threat inferred to make you sweat & that this is relevant to getting what you want & that b/c he's getting the "i saw a hawk outside today watch out" advisory texts his being someone who goes sicko mode on people with Manifested Physical Violence is important in how it grants him his Specific Reputation that offsets his being seen as someone who does not implicitly wield power. Nothing Offset in turn by going "and he's trans" there lmao. my being like "cocodrilo & assassin sofia have some kind of genuine affinity" b/c why not & they hang out in also [again the peak surface Recreation Of Genre Conventions Familiar To Us as what is being worked off of, lo cocodrilo & sofia both have dramatic black outfits so that we immediately read them as The Villains, there's the reason behind that superficial element, we don't Need to go "do they have cowboy alt tastes & meet in the villain section of the department store?" but we Can. we don't need to go "is lo cocodrilo gay actually" (yes) but there are so many amazing things in this life that are not strictly of Need.] the tangent of "oh boy, banana & his relationship to Being Wanted & lo cocodrilo & his relationship to Wanting. there's a combination of elements i'm tossing in the centrifuge" lmao But. cocodrilo who is not Assessed In Person as someone with physical qualities associated with Assumption Of Power, Threat, who openly explains like yes Thus i need my specific Reputation for being dangerous Regardless....whereas sofia may have a reputation for being dangerous but that she uses her Assessed In Person physical qualities that are also not associated with power & threat, in her case being a woman, to go for more of a Stealth Kill or at least certainly surprise attack. perchance only thwarted by the musician pulling a "nuns don't work on sunday (immediately shooting).png" maneuver there lol. which, that of course this Handshake between her being even a "normal" if goth woman & lo cocodrilo being a funny little guy & They'll Fucking Kill You, cocodrilo with the deliberately built Reputation, sofia in the one scene we meet her being readily undercover yet undisguised....just a tangent really lol but the tl;dr being like going "lol taking cocodrilo's textual Short Guyness & being like what if he's trans. imagine" but then to no one's surprise like well first of all Why Not as ever, second of all yeah sure it could work fine if not be used to enhance themes as is like always the case when what is irl "inferior" in the context of normative power structures is applied in any story that doesn't try to hold on those power structures as Correct, & they can't stop you, & this story as usual is not one going like noooo don't dig deeper & turn something over & add glitter & shake it up & hold it up to the light & sing & dance