Which apparently changes history profoundly and creates a new timeline It's ironic because in the whole game proper the idea is Katherine is Vincent's real girlfriend whom he cares about as a person but is getting bored with and Catherine is the exciting mystery girl fantasy
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But new timeline Catherine is Vincent's friend from childhood and is an unassuming modest sweetheart and is more like Katherine than the original Katherine (except she still looks the same so I guess Vincent is more into her physically, bc blonde and boobs)
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But anyway Part of the reason we know it's an alternate timeline when Vincent and Catherine get married at the end is that everyone's life is slightly different than it was in the original timeline Including Erica, who has not yet transitioned and still goes by Eric
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This isn't dwelt upon though and it's certainly not implied her life is going better in the new timeline than the old one It's insensitive af but it's not the outright anti-trans message implied above
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It may not even actually imply anything other than that Catherine and Vincent are getting married way earlier in the timeline than Vincent and Katherine would have in the original one (because they're childhood sweethearts rather than meeting in college)
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(Erica is a side NPC whom Vincent cannot romance, because her name isn't some form of K/Catherine, and so her story isn't really elaborated on in any route)
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Honestly it's funny that it's Erica's role in the Catherine ending that got brought up and, you know, not the whole concept of the new character Rin I guess Erica is actually trans and Rin is one of those stupid anime "No it's not the same thing" characters
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(Rin appears to be a teenage girl/young woman but it soon transpires that he is in fact an alien from another planet disguised as a human woman but his true gender is male and he uses he/him pronouns The game is pretty insistent on this though unclear on what it means exactly)
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Rin is supposed to be a "crossdresser" (otokonoko) although since in his ending you find out his species' true form is these cartoony blob aliens this is probably a metaphor for actual shapeshifting
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wait i thought Qatherins thing was being a fallen angel? Which is why they went with hermaphordite (though blobby alien would also work for angel, ala El Shadai)
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She calls herself an "angel" but if you get the True Ending you find out that the Biblical concept of an angel is just a mask used by the weird blob aliens to manipulate humanity
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and
They never actually specify that he's a "third sex" or "genderless" or anything like that He just says that he's really a boy Probably this comes off as more "ambiguous" in a Japanese cultural context (for reasons we might find regressive)
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