Maybe shitty take on characters being trans:
Samus isn't trans, or at least, I'd like to think she's cis?
Samus as a character is overflowing with masculine traits, the fact she's female was supposed to be a trope-flip. I feel making her trans weakens that. It becomes a trans woman who can't let go of learn male signalling or similar and I really hate that.
Maybe shitty take on characters being trans:
@Draekos Counterpoint: A great deal of [negative] trans stereotypes are rooted in being unable to cope with desired traits or interests that're typically masculine coded.
Maybe shitty take on characters being trans:
@IrisKalmia Countercounterpoint: "This character you thought was a dude this whole time is a girl" being trans is a WIDE OPEN DOOR for identity denial and I really fucking hate that.
Maybe shitty take on characters being trans:
@Draekos Restricting the field you're working with to try and appease bigots is a huge waste of time and we both know that.
@Draekos @IrisKalmia trans women are women.
@Fuego @IrisKalmia yes. As one, I know.
I still have mixed feelings about trans-identifying certain characters and Samus explicitly is best as a cis woman, In my eyes.
Maybe shitty take on characters being trans:
@Draekos You're going to run into people breaching that door open no matter how you code the character from the start. The whole game we're all playing at is reaching out for fictional rolemodels that were denied to us by a society entirely too obsessed with cis-[coding/washing] everything.
People who're cis and willing to accept any subversive shit like quietly trans characters being that should be willing to work with Samus as trans femme.