For the record, I'm still interested to know if anyone has thoughts on my hypothetical of Bridget's twin.

Prolly getting ninja'd, so:

Look, I'm doing my best to interpret what you actually said. It genuinely looks like you think it's less problematic if Bridget is a femboy.

The point is that up until that event Guilty Gear has been telling the story of a man coming to terms with his non-standard gender expression. Then it pivoted to a woman accepting her transness instead. It's retconning the one development for the sake of the other, to the detriment of both.

At worst, if you're willing to to read too much into a franchise whith prostate exams as finishing moves, it can be seen as reinforcing the "if you're femine, you're a woman, if you're masculine, you're a dude" thinking common even in so-called progressive circles, where any form of gender non-conformance is nigh-pressured into identifying as trans.

As for my personal opinion, it's probably better that ArcSys went with a canonical trans charcter over going with the tropes oh-so-common in japanese media [regarding feminine-presenting males/Otokonoko], but the execution of that decision was clumsy at best. "They're kind of confused, but they got the spirit", and all that.

Mod Edit: Avoid the use of the slur. Enclosing it in quotes does not stop it from being such.

Zesc Edit: Fair, though I edited your edit because I explicitly did not mean transfems but GNC males.

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^Given her [complete violation of known physics]-tier shape shiftery I think it'd take a bit more than just shaking her off to remove her.

^ Is it a [problem] if everyone who makes the assumption is loudly refuted? I suppose diegetically it's still a [problem], but not to the viewer, which is sort of subversive.

I feel very strongly connected to a certain subset of GNC female characters, but I am careful to compartmentalize what is explicit, what is implicit with an evidence-based case (headcanon), and what could be implicit but only has vibes (what I call heartcanon). This really limits my options, and I am at peace with that. I know people are starved for trans rep, but watching them latch onto canon and especially headcanon even when the character actually makes for really bad trans rep always confuses me. Bridget's a whole order of magnitude less bad in this regard than Yamato from One Piece, but I thought that fact would allow for more nuance.

Edit: You're probably right that it will be better in the long-term. The character as they now exist will mutate based on the writers of the era and what the fans of the era want, and eventually the origin of the controversy will become irrelevant. Poison is pretty celebrated now, but she was introduced under the premise that punching gang-affiliated trans women would be perfectly acceptable where punching cis women would have raised eyebrows.

Mod Edit: Removed unnecessary usage of a term. If you can avoid it, then don't use it. Putting in it quotes over and over does not diminish the problem.

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^ Samus is literally a ball.

Huh. Did Nagi cut her hair so her nape is always visible, or is there a ponytail hidden by the perspective?

^She'll always be ballin'.

Time skip?

^^I guess a morph ball bomb is the traditional means of removing overly clingy beings.

Beautiful

Aww and they took their little furry friend with them too :)

Lovely!

Always love to see one of my OTPs <3

It makes me wonder if Coco’s fear of sealife goes away because now it reminds her of Agott

Adorable ^_^

That crit damage Is gonna be broken

So cute!

Note: This seems to be taking place after the main series just based on the fact it was uploaded after said series ended.

Zoro from one piece went to the gay smut expo apparently. He could have invited the rest of the crew, what gives :(

Implying that he's not lost and/or standing in line for Nami.

I'm willing to take Columbina's place if she doesn't want to

Cute ><

As a transwoman its really nice to see representation in such a large franchise and even moreso when shes also yuri. I think femboys are cool but yeah all that stuff above reads as masking transphobia

^ Very good point XD

I guess the haircut is kinda spoilers then.

One of my favorite polycule ships. Though now Unika may need to be integrated into it. Lot of great Bridget ships, she's practically an admiral.