"Many" definitely feels like a bit of a stretch tho, given most of the other examples seem to be years apart
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Having read the article it has confirmed my suspicion that "Choose your form" is doing A LOT of the heavy lifting, but I don't blame anyone for grabbing on to anything that looks like it represents them.
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And my point is that TLOU2 gave lesbians and (binary) trans people representation. No head canons required. I’m sure ND would do a nonbinary character given the chance, and if they didn’t, they wouldn’t require us to contort ourselves in knots to see it, it’d just be there.
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Also, something I noticed is that in their are 3 characters from Undertale listed in wikipedia's "List of fictional non-binary characters," which is a depressingly short list. TV is only /slightly/ ahead of anime in terns if longest list
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Replying to @VapourSnake @BootlegGirl and
The thing about video games in general and Undertale in particular is you end up conflating characters whose gender (and other aspects of their identity) are deliberately obscured to the audience and ones who actually explicitly are non-binary
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VapourSnake and
Yeah, this is a good point in general. To some extent, if the character is deliberately vague about their gender, nb is a pretty reasonable inference. But if it's just a trick of the camera...eh?
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Replying to @mssilverstein @VapourSnake and
"I'm Dalboz, Dalboz of Gurth. What's your name?" *silence* "O...kay. I guess I'll just call you Ageless Faceless Gender-Neutral Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Person. AFGNCAAP, for short." - Zork Grand Inquisitor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Whereas, I want to emphasize again, Naughty Dog goes out of their way to provide queer representation for which almost no one praises them Naughty Dog is like the Batman to Undertale's Harvey Dent. I think. I hate that metaphor, and yet I'm using it. :p
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mssilverstein and
Well, I wouldn't go that far, like it was a big deal for Undertale to normalize they/them pronouns at all (and Napstablook pretty clearly is explicitly non-binary) Undyne and Alphys are also very explicitly a lesbian couple
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
There's some Unfortunate Implications with the idea that Napstablook is non-binary because they're a ghost and when ghosts gain bodies they get a gender (like Mettaton) But those are softened if you decide Frisk and Chara are canon enby
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I mean I say the use of they/them is possibly just the monsters not caring to ask you about anything (and you being a silent protagonist) but after all Asriel continues to talk about Chara as they/them when discussing their backstory, and he lived as Chara's brother for years
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