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I drew her beating up Spamton because he DESERVES IT !

Thinking something fun and light-hearted is a deathly serious social commentary

Thinking something dark or disturbing is actually a wacky comedy

Thinking something with no gay people is actually gay

like. yeah. they do use they/them now. and they do say they've "never tried being a princess before" that it's in "presentation". but like. ralsei (TO ME) is pretty clearly in the middle of an arc about their identity, theyre willing to put up with being a "prince" (given their sprites when you tell them "nah bro" and reactions to the hat (aka thinly veiled metaphor for repression)) and yet they aren't fully comfortable expressing the part of themselves that rebels from the prophecy (their fire magic) despite wanting to– pretending that their feelings are less significant than the fate of the world(/the prophecy) despite also ("selfishly") wsnting them to (literally everything about them, their room, and the "DO YOU THINK I WANT IT TO BE LIKE THIS!?" dialogue from the end of chapter 5). ralsei's sense of self in deltarune is tied to the prophecy- both in following it amd in breaking it, whilst being afraid of the consequences of doing so- hence why i think they are currently using they/them:

its the 'safest' option to put it bluntly- it gives them the plausible deniability that we so often see them wanting (i.e. only telling an abridged/majorly omitted version of the prophecy, telling half-truths to not technically lie) that allows them to break free from who the prophecy wants them to be without truly accepting who they want to be for themself and potentially causibg the "dire consequences" that they think could come from breaking the prophecy.

they aren't ready to be a princess, though they want to be. i made a post about this already on main- but the pink 'princess dress', i believe, is mentonymous for how ralsei sees girlhood as being freeing- literally having one of the two major 'freedom colors' (pink/yellow) and yet easily discards it due to outside input- the player AND the prophecy. not because they want to but because they believe they have to, for the benefit of someone else- another reinforcement of ralsei's belief that "darkners are meant to serve the lightners" or, more specifically, that ralsei feels they were 'made' to serve others unconditionally, putting their own wishes out of mind. a mentality which is being broken down the more time they spend with susie (also pink & yellow and a girl)‐ and leads to their own 'selfish' desires in ch.3/4/5.

the sense of freedom ralsei seeks doesn't come from rejecting being 'the prince', but embracing being "a princess"– which they feel they cannot do at risk of hurting the world/people they care for.

Mew Mew, save me!!!

What you do: Looking at someone you don’t know and calling them trans because they don’t fit your narrow idea of the gender they present as

Please tell me how what you do isn’t transvestigation in a different coat of paint. Because to me it looks like the exact same bio essentialist crap