Okay hi I actually have. More to say about this. Excuse me while link the context. (2 separate links)
Like... okay yeah the longer I have to think about this game the worse and more glaring it gets, b/c this is all shit that I do not. See a way for it to be revealed to be handled somehow more respectfully and nuanced in a way that like... makes it better. A lot of this is shit that is just... It's just bad. Like one you've gotta change this kid's name. You can't name her that. How did nobody fucking catch that.
Also like.... the writing for the trans women in this game... π¬
Okay so like prefacing this with Tangent is easily one of my favorite characters, up there with Marz! But the issue I'm having here is that like- from what I'm finding, and like, yes, I understand that there seems to be a lot going on storywise in general that gives many characters like... bittersweet storylines. But with Tangent it seems like there's just no good options for her. No good endings, no matter what she'll just always be depressed and lonely and die of a heart attack in her early sixties. She'll always break up with the PC, if they're dating no matter what. It's implied that she'll cheat on the PC throughout their relationship with Marz, and there's just like... no opportunity to bring this up?? (She's listed as monogamous tho?? Which???? Marz is one of the 2 canonically poly characters?? why can't they try for a lesbian polycule or open relationship thing if they're gonna fuck anyways and the PC knows about it??? Hello????). She's also, once again, like Marz, one of the easier characters to read in bad faith, and villainize, if someone were inclined to do that. She's not as overtly sympathetic as her twin brother Dys, he frequently complains about her treatment of him- And she's like apparently directly responsible for causing/massively contributing to one of the really bad possible endings if you encourage her in her research too much. (also I am not a trans woman so I cannot speak to this, but something about the fact that she's a trans girl/woman who's fully medically transitioned and has been from a very very young age, but so much of her personal story still focuses on how like... uncomfortable she still is in her body and with her physical form just rubbed me the wrong way. Like why can't a trans woman be confident and happy in her physical body??).
And then- okay I haven't actually seen anything so far in the game itself? That indicates this character is a trans woman, but when I was poking through the wiki it said she was. Which. π¬ If True. Utopia, the character who's...... 12 years older than the PC, the PC who starts the game 10 years old. Is possibly sort of the PCs boss for a chunk of the game- the game allows the PC to flirt with her when they're like... 13 or 14, and then a couple more times throughout the game. And then apparently post-game! If you picked all the flirt options, and spent the majority of your time working under her! You will get an ending where she does engage in a romance with the PC! Which like. I get that the character is hot. I get that the majority of people playing the game are probably not literally children. But the premise of the game itself is that the player character is between the ages of 10-19. Like the game is literally called I was a Teenage Exocolonist. It's in the fucking name of the game. Taking it at face value that reads as a fucking predatory trans woman grooming a vulnerable teenager. Like that's what you're writing? In your "queernormative" solarpunky sci-fi???? In this political climate???????
Oh also it looks like Vace is suddenly whitewashed in his ending art where he's like not a massive fucking dick anymore. What the fuck is up with that.