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[josharko300]

Y'know, it's been a bit since I've made these but I think it's worth sharing. They're more for flavor than anything else so they're not all going to be balanced. Reed, Rosa, and Trish in particular are kinda OP and there are syntax errors abound. Oh well, it's on me for using Cardsmith lol

[wormdramafever]

Character sheet of Maia, the character Rosa plays in the tabletop rpg "Legends & Lore", from the game Goodbye Volcano High, by Ellen Aslop.

[rustybottlecap]

[frickyesforumweapons]

[datadoggieein]

So there was this Goodbye Vocano High fan game that was pretty popular. Y'know the one. You play as a closeted trans woman, and the dinogang helps you come out? Anyone else remember it?

[foxxophantom]

Chunky dinos feat @wolfnanaki

[wolfnanaki]

I love women! 🥰

[nrxia]

GVH irl

[cuddles-edits]

Rosa from Goodbye Volcano High

Transgender Pride Icons

In celebration of Pride Month 2024, I will be posting a new icon set of a canon LGBTQ+ character every day. Today's canon LGBTQ+ character is Rosa from Goodbye Volcano High, who is a trans woman.

Happy Pride Month!

[sentaichurchill]

Sorry to bug you but could you draw Rosa with the Honduran flag!! It’s my job as the only Honduran ever to make sure every Latin American character from Hondurans 😤😤😤

:3

[sweetlovingfictionals]

I just wanna ramble about my boyfriend I love him

[wormdramafever]

[rustybottlecap]

Goodbye Volcano High characters from sketch through concept art to final design.

Some changes more drastic than others.

Images taken from the wiki.

[jennayow]

The chance to write for a video game is a privilege. The chance to shape that game into something authentically, unapologetically trans and queer is a gift. To every person who saw themselves in this game, to every trans person who saw /me/ writing to them through these characters, to every Fang, Rosa, and Sage: thank you.

Happy birthday, GVH 🦕☄️

[runningpsychic]

Why Goodbye Volcano High resonates with me as...

...a musician

As a musician, it's hard not to immediately identify with Fang. What musician doesn't want their music to be heard, to play at music festivals, and have music as their career. I can wax poetic about how music is about self expression and it doesn't matter if I have an audience, but in the end, I still want my music to be heard, and enjoyed. And Fang is on track to making this their entire career.

Making music has been a minor hobby for me. Even as a kid, I knew there's almost no chance I can make it as a musician, so I went down the route of being a software engineer instead. It's such a minor part of my life that I don't even bother identifying as a musician, I just fool around with instruments. But something about GVH ignited that passion in me, and during my first playthrough, I wrote six songs inspired by themes in the game. Even if I'll stay an amateur, I want to make the most from life, and not let the fire die. (See last section)

All that said, I felt very bad for Fang throughout the game. I know how tough the life of a full time musician is. The industry is just completely screwed. And unlike me, Fang doesn't have another option other than music. The game also drives it in that Fang's friends all have viable career paths, while Fang doesn't. But then, the meteor throws an interesting wrench into this, as now Fang is the only one who achieved their dreams. I'm not sure what the point of this paragraph is besides fuck capitalism, give musicians a living wage.

...an enby

Fang really made me more comfortable about being non-binary. It's amazing seeing enby representation that doesn't feel shoehorned in, or merely an afterthought. It's actually integral to the story. Both Fang and Sage struggle having their parents take their identities seriously, and that mirrors my own fears of not being taken seriously as an enby myself, which leads me to only come out as non-binary to my closest friends, and just remain a binary trans woman to everyone else.

It's honestly amazing to see everyone in Caldera Bay being accepting of the queer cast, like being queer isn't a big deal at all. And that's how it should be. Everyone just calls Fang by their name and pronouns (except their parents of course), and no one seems to mind that Reed brought Alvin to prom. This really makes me feel more comfortable about my identity, and I feel proud to be queer. We don't owe them normal.

...an immigrant

It's so rare to see stories about the intersection of being trans and being an immigrant, so when I read Rosa's story, I felt it must've been written by someone who also has first hand experience. There's a distinct feel from my family that me being trans is a "western" thing, not something they could ever understand. Or worse, that I'm being corrupted by "the west" in some way by moving there. There's so much extended family I can never see again because I'm now an abomination of the family tree.

I find it really difficult to talk about this as I fear I'd be misread as being racist for suggesting that my home country is more queerphobic or something, but that isn't my point. I just want to tell my story, and my experience of being alienated for both culture and gender, in both my origin and destination countries, is one that most folks can't emphasize with. (Venba also does do a good job with the culture part, so you should check that out too)

There's a separate rant about how this brand of queerphobia was actually planted by Christian missionaries and not at all "traditional culture", but that's for another time.

...someone struggling with mental health

I've been obsessed with the game for months since I played it. I went through what everyone calls "Dino depression", but I think it really helped me, and it was the game I needed to play at this moment in my life. I struggle with depression and burnout. At times it can be hard to know what the point is, or feel that any of this is worth it. The first few weeks after the game, I actually felt more depressed, as I thought about what the point of life is if it all is temporary anyway, and what I would do if a meteor were to hit in 8 months. And I was scared, because I felt like my life wasn't under my control. Over time, I've learned to think about it more positively. If life is temporary, then it's up to me to make the most of it. If life has no meaning, it's up to me to make my own meaning. I have amazing friends around me, and I still have tons of music to make.

[wolfnanaki]

Here's a Rosa appreciation post! Because she deserves it. 🌹❤️