Glue!

I walk into this little everything store (to my foreign eyes the kind of place that back home could sell you a bunch of carrots, a 6-pack of beer, pantyhose, bleach and a screwdriver set) and I see some household basics in the back but not what I need. with the confidence of a person who is only in the city for 3 days because he got bored and packed a bag and booked the cheapest flight available the week before (<= MENTAL ILLNESS), I was like no worries I know some italian, I can just ask.

I grab a bottle of water, walk up to the counter, and I'm like Ciao, hai il paracetamolo? And the guy is like che, and I'm like paracetamolo. Per la mia testa. And he's like che?

This is where I would have said 'aspirina' except I can't take aspirin for medical reasons, or 'antidolorifico' except I don't know that word and I've got no phone data for google translate and also I'm stupid. So in my fucked up leith-glasgow-italian accent I'm like paaa-ra-cetta-mollll-ooo. He's like ohhh bene, bene, and he calls another guy out of the back and asks him to go get something. Other guy then walks out of the store into the street, and before I can be like hey, che la fuck, he comes back and hands me a huge bundle of herbs.

At this point I'm like okay this entire interaction has been a bust, but these guys have been very nice and patient and they're both smiling happily at me because they've been of service, so I'm like ahh perfetto, grazie, pay them a couple of euros and leave.

EVENTUALLY I find a pharmacy that's open, and my head is fucking killing me, and my phone still isn't connecting, and now I have this small shrubbery poking out of my coat pocket, so I don't even bother looking around the shelves. I just walk straight to the counter and I'm like uhh ciao, scusi. And hearing my nightmare of an accent the guy answers in english and I'm like thank christ, do you please have paracetamol. Not aspirin, I can't take aspirin. And he's like yeah yeah hold on, goes into the back, comes out with what I need.

Only when he comes out he gives me this look, and then he starts laughing. And then he pretends he's not laughing and rings me up and I pay, and as I'm leaving I can see him losing it. But I don't care, my head is going to explode, I'm going back to the rathole to close the blinds and fall comatose for four hours.

When I get back to my hotel room I take off my coat and remember the huge bouquet of herbs in my pocket. They smell amazing, and I'm like I'm pretty sure this is parsley in which case I can just get some tomatoes and mozzarella later and make it work. but since I have no idea what that interaction was, I want to make sure. I bring out my phone to get a visual reference of what parsley leaves look like, and because I was using it for google translate earlier I put 'parsley' in the wrong box like a dope and translate it to italian.

prezzemolo

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.

The trans flag is blue, white, and pink. The drink voucher is blue and pink. Blue and pink are Kris's colors. Flowery even tells Ralsei not to worry about Kris and to focus on his fave. Ralsei has themes of longing to be a player 1 and have agency (things Kris has).

and call them princess.

Flowery and several other characters, as well as the game UI, refer to Ralsei in male terms after (and within!) the voucher scene. Flowery also calls Kris a princess -- is Kris now a girl?

And I wouldn't change what pronouns I use for them

This hasn't happened. There's a neutral reference in the UI and Asgore they/thems him because they aren't familiar. Other "binary" characters (such as Undyne) are also referred to with they/them.

To further that no actual pronoun switch took place, check the JP version. Asgore refers to Ralsei with masculine pronouns. This is a stark difference from how Kris is normally referred to, which is with their name or neutral pronouns.

Or have them tumble out of a closet at their introduction.

You open several closets before you get to Ralsei and all of these closets are said to be full of "useless objects", something to that effect. Then Ralsei, who believes he's an object, falls out of one. Also it's a wardrobe, actually. Crazy to insist people lack media literacy when you yourself didn't seem to clock that.

Oh and I wouldn't have a scene where they get really excited about the idea of being a princess instead of a prince

Ralsei likes being feminine and has worn ribbons since chapter 1. He's been called feminine terms before, like bimbo (as a joke, admittedly, but Flowery calling him princess was to tease him). That scene was fanservice.

oh Kris? you mean the openly, textually, blatantly nonbinary character who is (very likely based on Mancountry and the pizza deodorant) AMAB like Ralsei? and who frequently expresses their gender with their outfits, including feminine ones?

Flowery and several other characters, as well as the game UI, refer to Ralsei in male terms after (and within!) the voucher scene.

yeah because by this reading Ralsei is still in the closet. trans folks still in the closet use pronouns according to their assigned gender actually.

(on pronouns) This hasn't happened. There's a neutral reference in the UI and Asgore they/thems him because they aren't familiar.

the UI which, up to this point, has very insistently gendered Ralsei as a boy, a prince. is it not significant that that pattern is broken? as for Asgore, he also then immediately says "I hope they know they don't have to hide themself."

To further check that no actual pronoun switch took place, check the JP version.

you know this game is originally written in English, right? you can't "well in Japanese he's still a boy" for a work that wasn't originally written in Japanese.

Also it's a wardrobe, actually.

decent point, if a bit pedantic

He's been called feminine terms before, like bimbo (as a joke, admittedly, but Flowery calling him princess was to tease him).

and why does Flowery tease Ralsei, exactly? to get him to admit that he is a person with wants and needs, e.g. "Then what... DO you want?" on the staircase. and, again, this is the same chapter where Ralsei openly admits to being super excited to being called a princess. when Flowery calls him princess, he doesn't even have a rebuttal; he just blushes super hard and looks aside.

...you guys claim what's just a headcanon is a true theory with actual evidence, but it isn't.

i would actually argue that the transgender readings of these scenes is more straightforward, what with how much chapter 5 says about gender and sexuality in general. also, like, how can it be "just a headcanon" if so many fucking people arrive at the same conclusion based upon the same evidence? surely that would indicate that, at the bare minimum, this is a theory worth discussing and not dismissing out of hand.

Tralsei supporters purposely misinterpret scenes or work backwards from the premise of him being trans,

-@kozykricket

3) they grin and wave at susie enthusiastically. the speechbubble, a dark pink withmore of the glowing bubbles surrounding it, reads "ah, hi susie!"

susie, now in frame and also grinning, realizes: "oh shit, hey ralsei! kris out of front rn?"

ralsei: yeah, they wanted me to work on homework, haha

susie: oh booooo... can you do mine too?