I saw some talk on twitter about there being a trans character in the Lara-Su Chronicles, but didn't see this mentioned in your post, so is this really true or just a rumour? I'm trans and just like to see more trans characters in ANYTHING
Believe me when I say you do not want trans rep from Penders lmao. Please love yourself
Anyway: Ken loves to pat himself on the back on Twitter for planning to put Representation in his stories, but it's really just an ego thing for him. It makes him feel important and progressive. None of it is actually present on the page in TLSC: Beginnings despite his many declarations of how progressive these books will be.
For example, he made a big deal out of the fact that Espio's daughter Salma is autistic now and how big of a deal that is for autistic Sonic fans everywhere, but she's not actually in either of the stories here. She is on the endpaper illustration if you want to look at her godawful new design, though!
He's also spent years making a big deal out of the fact that Rotor/"The Emissary" and Cobar were supposed to be a gay couple in M25YL and how that really broke new ground for comics etc. etc., but in this book all that really results in is a single panel of the Emissary holding Cobar and going "Goddess, don't let him die on me."
And, yes, Ken did, in fact, announce on Twitter some time ago that he plans on including a trans character in The Lara-Su Chronicles. It's apparently even a character we've already met, though whether this means he's retconning a returning Archie Sonic character to be trans or it's one of the new characters is still up in the air. It's presumably an echidna based on Ken's statements about how in the new universe "Echyd'nya" society is so totally progressive and they're "not hung up on gender identity the way humans are" and transitioning is "as common as the air 1 breathes," even going as far as implying that they can spontaneously change sex like amphibians. And yet at the same time this character being trans is a secret in-universe "for reasons that will rock someone’s world."
Exactly none of this is conveyed in any way, shape, or form in the book we got.
I don't really know who the trans character is supposed to be, honestly. My first guess was Dr. Zephyr/Zephur, because their design is slightly gender ambiguous, no one every refers to them with pronouns, and they have no data file to clarify their gender. But no, it can't be them if it's supposed to be an Echyd'nya, and also Zephyr/Zephur is probably just a guy because if they were a woman Ken would've given them an hourglass figure. Maybe... Remington? Given all the shit about his unknown origins, is the Big Twist supposed to be that he was DFAB? I don't know. I just know that, whatever it is, if the story containing the reveal of who the token trans character is even gets published, it's not going to be good.
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Akidalia, Akraia, Alilat, Amathousia, Ambologera, Anadyomene, Antheia, Apatouria, Aphakitis, Apotrophia, Arakunthia, Areia, Argynnis, Kallipugos, Knidia, Kolias, Kyprogeneia, Kuthereia, Despoina, Dionysia, Erukiane, Gamelia, Genetullia, Hekaerge, Idalia, Limeniatis, Mekhanitis, Melainis, Melinaea, Migonitis, Morpho, Nikephoros, Pandemos, Paphia, Peitho, Syria Dea, Ourania, Zephuritis, Zerynthia
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Epithets of Aphrodite
Acida’lia = refers to the well where she bathed with the Graces at Acidalius, Orchomenos
Acraea = “of the heights”, whose temple is on a hill
Alitta = syncretism: Arab world
Amathusia = temple seat at Amathus, Cyprus
Ambologera = “she who postpones old age” (Sparta)
Amyclaeus = (Amyclae, Laconia)
Anadyomene = “rising from the sea”
Androphonos = “killer of men”
Anosia = “unholy”
Antheia = “the blooming,” goddess of flowers and flowery wreaths
Apaturia, Apatouria, Apaturus = “the deceitful” (Taurian Chersonesus)
Aphacitis = temple seat of Aphaca, Coele-Syria
Aphroditus = depiction with a beard & lifting up the dress to show a phallus (Amathus, Cyprus)
Apostrophia = “averter of” unlawful desires
Apotrophia = “the expeller,” expelled sinful lust from the hearts of men (Thebes)
Aracynthias = possible temple seat at Mount Aracynthus?
Areia = “the warlike” or “of Ares” (Sparta)
Barbata = “bearded” (Rome)
Castinia = of Mount Castium, Pamphylia
Catascopia = “spying, peeping”
Cepoïs, En kopois = “of the gardens,” refers to her patronage over garden fertility (Athens)
Chrysea = “golden” (Lesbos)
Colias = (Colias, Attica)
Cypris, Cypria = (Cyprus)
Cythereia = (Cythera, Laconia)
Despoina = “our lady” or similar (Mycenaean Greece)
Dia = “divine, shining”
Dionaea, Dionaia = daughter of Dione
Dios Thugater = “daughter of Zeus”
Doritis = “bountiful”
Eleemon = “the merciful” (Cyprus)
Enoplios = “armed” (Sparta)
Epistrophia = “she who turns to” love
Epitragia = “from a she-goat” (Elis)
Erukine, Erycina = temple seat at Mount Eryx, Sicily (Rome)
Euploea = “fair voyage”
Eustephanus =“richly-crowned, well-girdled”
Gamelii = protector of marriage
Genetrix = mother of the Roman people (Rome)
Genetyllis = “mother” (Cape Colias), protector of births
Hecaerge = (Iulis, Cos)
Hera = “of Hera”, or of marriage
Hoplismena = “armed”
Ida’lia = (Idalion, Cyprus)
Kallipygos = “of the beautiful buttocks”
Knidia = statue made by Praxiteles at Cnidus, Caria
Kolias = statue at Colias
Kourotrophos = “protector of young people”
Limenia = “protector of the harbour” or “of the harbour”
Machanitis = “deviser, contriver”
Mechaneus = “skilled in invention”
Melainis = “black one” (Corinth)
Melinaea, Melinaia = (Meline, Argive)
Migontis = marital “union”
Migonitis = temple seat at Migonium, Laconia
Morpho = “shapely, fair-shaped” (Sparta)
Nikephoros, Nicephorus = “bringing victory”
Nymphia = “bridal”
Pandemos = “for all the folk,” goddess of sensual pleasure, common love, physical desire, courtesans, heterosexual desire
Paphia = temple seat at Paphos, Cyprus
Peitho = “persuasion”
Philommedes = “smile-loving,” sometimes translated as “laughter-loving”
Pontia = “of the sea”
Pothon Mater = “mother of desire”
Potnia = “mistress” (Sparta)
Psithyristes = “whispering”
Praxis = sexual “action”
Skotia = “dark one”
Surie theos = “the Syrian goddess”. syncretism: Astarte
Symmachia = “ally” in love
Tymborychos = “gravedigger”
Urania = “heavenly,” goddess of spiritual love, pedastry, homosexual desire
Venus = syncretism: Rome
Verticordia = “turner of hearts,” refers to her moving people from lust into chastity; worshipped by married women and young maidens (Rome)
Victrix = bringer of victory
Xenia = “of the foreigner”
Zerunthia = temple seat at Zerinthus, Thrace
Zephuritis = of Zephyrium, Egypt
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