#1 Anemone enjoyer

1. Many of the characters listed aren't canonically trans (some of them are characters I know about for sure, others could just be the result of wikis being misleading)

2. Trans women have wildly different standards for what is "good" transfem rep than everyone else

i drew rhis a few months ago and i felt bad cor not posting ir 🥹 this game is underhyped it was soo good

I don’t think it’s a bad idea to have an ending like that, I like that there’s no golden ending. But also I think it’s important to acknowledge that what the Gardeners did is an…actual colonization tactic. I know it’s weird to call it that cause the humans are colonizing Vertrumna but the Gardeners imposed strict rules (no reproduction, a halt in industry and so on)  and as much as I understand why the made those demands (the industry one in particular) this does not exist in a vacuum where real colonizers didn’t make those same demands to their colonies (usually by force, Something we know the Gardeners Do due to the Epilogue talking about how they dispose of particularly rebellious humans) 

Even though the demands were made more “reasonable” there still not great, it’s an “accept or die” situation. Which again is just…very loaded in meaning.

(I’m being unspecific since I’m most familiar with stuff from my home country and I’m a very private person, it’s an Asian country if you want some tiny specifics on the background here.)

I don’t think the game…necessarily intended this though, I obviously can’t read into the exact intent of the game. But I don’t think they necessarily meant for all that implication to be loaded into the Gardeners. Or atleast not in this way.

Nocticulent, who embodies the “humans are a pest” ideology is one of the nastiest characters, being smug, condescending and bloodthirsty when he’s talking to you and not just trying to exterminate your kind.

If Sol decides to sympathize with the Gardeners, they wipe out all the Space Refugees, leaving only a glorified zoo of their broken descendants that Gardener!Sol feels a vague sympathy for before being distracted by a beetle-culling job. Only Tangent’s Cure is sadder.

Your two most dangerous peers are Tangent, who wants absolute control over the environment and her twin brother Dys, who completely buys into the Gardeners’ ideology and thinks humans are a menace. They’re good foils for each other. With the twins each being tied to an ending (Dys getting Gardener and Blow Everyone Up, Tangent getting Tangent’s Cure), they can each get their wish in the worst way possible. The best ending for both of them involves reconciling with each other. I think the peace ending is supposed to parallel that reconciliation…though Tangent and Dys are equals, whereas the Gardeners come to you as conquerors.

I think people like peace mainly because it’s an upgrade-by-default over the “normal” ending of a forever war against aliens who can make nature hate you. It’s strange that this is the default ending you have to jump through so many hoops to get anything better. (It’s to be expected if you’ve played Rebuild 3, with its infamously arcane method for reaching the only good ending). I think most people will get a forever war ending on their first playthrough, unless they’re using a guide. You’d think some humans and/or Gardeners would figure out a compromise a few decades in.

sol in the valley *ﾟ⁠+

because i'm evil i'm gonna post these pieces one at a time. or maybe i'm kind because i did a beautiful 7 pieces for this project. 1 art a day for a week!!!

anyway first piece i did. this one took me like a month to do bc i was busy. but i think its my fave. someone has already correctly guessed its an au of them in hit video game i was a teenage exocolonist!! everyone should go check out that game its awesome!!! and also if ppl want i can yap about said au teehee