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if i was writing deltarune i would have included a moment in chapter three where tenna slips up and he/hims kris

like the two biggest things about Tenna is 1. he is outdated and 2. hes an incarnation of everything Kris doesn't like about their family. like if any one character in the game would be transphobic it would be him.

there's that one tumblr post about Noelle or Toriel being mildly transphobic and i absolutely do get why you would draw that conclusion HOWEVER. the fandom is 1000% not ready to handle the nuances of a woman having transphobic biases and still being an ultimately sympathetic character. yes this is also partially motivated by spite towards the kind of person who makes spamtenna have more fics on ao3 than suselle.

tenna says something innocuous like "And last, but not least... MISTER KRIS DREEMURR!!!" and there's an awkward scene where susie and ralsei have to explain kris isn't a guy anymore and tenna acts all supportive but ends his speech on "TV TIME'S FIRST NONBINARY CONTESTANT" with a "(But he'll always be our little boy, won't he folks?)" and he never apologises for it

if i was writing deltarune i would have included a moment in chapter three where tenna slips up and he/hims kris

like the two biggest things about Tenna is 1. he is outdated and 2. hes an incarnation of everything Kris doesn't like about their family. like if any one character in the game would be transphobic it would be him.

there's that one tumblr post about Noelle or Toriel being mildly transphobic and i absolutely do get why you would draw that conclusion HOWEVER. the fandom is 1000% not ready to handle the nuances of a woman having transphobic biases and still being an ultimately sympathetic character. yes this is also partially motivated by spite towards the kind of person who makes spamtenna have more fics on ao3 than suselle.

Is this a bit silly? Yes. But consider: living in the same universe as RoboMonk

my take on the "can trans men be lesbians?" thing is that i would never ever comment on a stranger's identity and i would never tell someone i don't know what they can or can't do but also like. come on. if you're explicitly choosing to be a man you can get mad when women don't want to date you.

if you're going into a space where there are women explicitly saying "I do not want men involved in my romance" and you are actively identifying as a man you cannot get upset when they don't want to date you or are uncomfortable with you being there

i also deeply empathize with every trans femme lesbian who has had to watch her existence debated and been seen as a pervert for loving women see most of the lesbian community go "oh yeah you have a vagina, you have the Unbreakable Woman Bond that means we are connected forever" and get a little frustrated about that

Also: do you think a cis man could be a lesbian without identifying as a woman? if not, and you think trans men can, i think you're just speaking from bioesstentialism and maybe don't really think trans men are fully men in the way cis men are

i'm remembering that trans man/lesbian i knew who was mad the girl he was seeing ID'd as straight its like damn maybe you don't really see yourself as a man.