Badass Genderfluid

Cammie: Heck!

Val/entina: You’re on thin fucking ice-

They connected!

Me, instantly nervous: “Cool beans, but are we sure this won’t just be offscreen/“word of God” representation?? Seems like they didn’t mention it much in episode 2.”

gen:LOCK, Episode 3:

Valentina, while arguing with Yaz: “I’ve fought and I have sacrificed all because of what your perfect Union did to people like me.”

Valentina, upon being in their non-gendered mech models and out of her own body for the first time: “I can work with this.”

Valentina, consistently, all the time: *corrects anyone when they try to shorten her name, as if Valentina as a whole is a chosen name in place of her deadname*

Yaz being supportive to Cammie and sympathize with her robot-immersion dreams but accidentally revealing she’s the only one to have naked robot dreams

The others immediately giving her shit for it, as friends are required to do

This fucking moment

Yaz: Ugh, calm yourself. Yes, I was a dozen meters tall and yes, unclothed but… I didn’t have any… 

Yaz: (gestures)

Valentina: Interesting….

Also this fucking exchange I am dying.

Valentina: I dreamt about having a robot body long before I came here. But those had all the right… accessories.

Yaz: …Why would a robot need-

Valentina: Because it’s fun? (making this face at Yaz, god bless them)

(Later)

Valentina: If you like, later I can tell you more about my-

Yaz, flustered: No no, that’s all right.

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