Rain Droplet

ADHD Sonic is something anyone with a good grasp on neurodiversity can gather if they enjoy the series, NiGHTS would probably exist in Sonic’s universe if Yuji Naka wasn’t sent to prison, but transfem Metal Sonic? I really need this one explained to me because I’m fairly certain you’re the only person I have ever seen claim that.

Okay so the Transfem Metal Sonic thing is kinda a fandom darling? And I'm not transfem so I might not be the best person to explain it but kinda the thing is like. Metal was built to emulate this boy. The entire basis of his existence is to "be exactly like this boy." Be the rough-and-tumble, ready-to-go, competitive leader character that's, you know, usually attributed to little boys. And his entire purpose in life is to be as close to this boy as possible, to surpass him, to become more him than the boy himself. To be the best at being him. It's literally all he thinks about because it's all he was raised to think about.

But the idea of her being transfem. Is looking at that characterization and seeing it as "oh. This is what being raised not knowing you're trans is like. Being raised to see yourself as one thing that you know deep down you aren't and you are so obviously doing something wrong and everyone can tell you aren't what you're supposed to be but you just can't place your finger on why."

For Metal Sonic it's bc he lacks Sonic's humanity and empathy, but we do see Metal care about Robotnik, and occasionally the other robots, so he has a bit of that, just not as big or healthy a friend group as Sonic. So what if it's not the lack of Sonic's friendships, but because "he" isn't as much like Sonic as he was built to be after all? And it's not something bad, it's not a fault in his programming, it's not something he just has to work harder to be better at? It's just a part of him that has been there from the moment of his inception, that nobody intended, but that makes him an entirely different person than the one the world sees him as.

Why do you think her being trans wasn't confirmed until the finale? coincidentally why did so many prior TADC fans seemingly jump ship as soon as episode 9 came out? (they have the same answer!)

Jax's story is about a trans girl who hates herself and is suffering because of transphobia. Her struggles are deeply personal and brutally realistic to what it means to be trans, so of course she connected with millions of struggling trans people. But she could never have had this impact if people knew she was trans in episode one.

Jax became one of the most famous instances of trans representation because she benefited from people treating her as cis and giving her attention accordingly.

so of course they would be mad and hate the finale, it told them that the entirety of the show they had been watching a trans girl, promoting her message that trans people are struggling, and that we should be supported.