INTERESTING thing I did learn while trying to data scrape for stuff about TLOU2 is that Ian Alexander's character on Discovery is going to be a Trill, which is interesting because it means they're going to directly confront the metaphor
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Oof That's actually disappointing, many people were hoping to just have a trans character who is a 100% normal human rather than turning trans people into a science fiction metaphor again
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah it... still could go well, and maybe the non-binary character will fit that role? I think it's still possible for Alexander's character to be a normal trans person, it's just going to be... Either Very Not a Big Deal, or problematic, IMO
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
If the Trill symbiotes could permanently host in humans I would wonder if he was a trans guy who went to the Trill to get help with dysphoria through the past life memories, but his name being... I can't remember what it is, but it sounds like a Trill species host
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
But like, if Alexander is playing a joined Trill (he might not be) then the simplest thing would just be to say he's an AFAB Trill host, transitioned, then got a Trill who was most recently in a female host as is convention, and is just... a Trill. Who also happens to be AFAB
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Yeah I guess it just raises the question of whether having Trill past life memories causes dysphoria and whether this is different if the host has their own preexisting memories of dysphoria With Ezri (who was an untrained, unsuited host) the dysphoria metaphor was pretty strong
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Isn’t part of Ezri’s arc the revelation that pretty much every trill is “suited” and their government made up the idea that only some are to prevent mass outrage at limited allocation of symbionts
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Biologically, yes, but a random person becoming a host with no screening and no training does create some pretty big psychological and social problems (which is why their government made up the lie about DNA rejection in the first place)
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