just learned a thing abt transmisogyny in nintendo games 

remember vilia? the trans lady from breath of the wild that you're required to be weird and creepy toward so you can get girl clothes, and also the game's impartial quest logs and stuff misgender her?? and then you see she's got facial hair and link is shocked because a woman having facial hair is completely impossible i guess??? even though loads of cis women have facial hair also????

it turns out that in the original japanese, she's not called "vilia". her name is vivian

which is exactly the same name that the trans character from paper mario: the thousand-year door chose for herself????

except, uh, vivian in breath of the wild (2017) is treated vastly worse than vivian in ttyd (2004)

what the fuck happened

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re: just learned a thing abt transmisogyny in nintendo games 

@00dani Nintendo, the corporation, being awful as usual.

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