Wow guys! Thank you so much!
So many of you showed up just to ask us questions so fast! We thought it'd take us a lot longer to get here than we did!
I think I speak for all of us when we say we're really appreciative and we've been really humbled!
We really hope you stick around and keep asking us things! It's been a lot of fun so far, even if we haven't been doing it long! I hope we can satisfy your curiousity!
Lots of love
- Lacey <3
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KIERAN from POKEMON SCARLET AND VIOLET: THE TEAL MASK AND THE INDIGO DISK
Gender identity: transfeminine autigender stellunarian neulier juxera, she/they alternating
Why would transition save them?: "Well. WELL. Was this an undertaking of an age. First of all, we have the name situation. First, both her Japanese name, Suguri, and their English name, Kieran, are gender neutral names, with her Japanese name actually being the feminine/unisex for of the name, which uses the kanji for "plum", and their English name leaning more masculine in terms of popularity. In addition, her names in other languages tend to lean more neutral-feminine; their German name is Jo, a popular unisex name that brings to mind the ambiguously nonbinary and/or lesbian coded character Jo March from Little Women, her Spanish name is Cass, a name frequently associated with female characters and has ties to the name "Cassandra", with their French, Italian, Korean, and Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese names leaning more towards the popular, stereotypically-associated-with-nonbinary-people noun names. In addition, Carmine, her sibling (who I will get to in another post) calls them by the feminine nickname "Kiki", which is equally feminine in the Japanese, French, and Italian languages: "Sugu," "Kass", and "Riri". The only time Carmine uses a rather masculine leaning nickname on Kieran is in Spanish, and even then, the meaning is gender neutral, if a bit derogatory in the way older sisters are to younger siblings: she calls her by "Enano", a word colloquially meaning "kid" or "dwarf".
Now, onto the story. Kieran's dilemma starts in that they very, almost obsessively, admire the ogre in the legend of the Teal Mask. The ogre, Ogerpon, also coincidentally happens to always be female, by the way. Kieran admires Ogerpon for being strong, and being herself, and always being able to stand tall even when people misunderstand her, which is a common trans narrative as it is. And for Kieran to relate to a transfeminine coded narrative, where someone seemingly monstrous and scary is actually a sweet girl who doesn't want to hurt anyone and is misunderstood by all, is very significant for their gender. This obsession with Ogerpon affects her in multiple ways, and it distresses them to the point that when the main protagonist catches her at the end of the DLC, she drastically changes for the worse, adopting a toxically masculine persona of anger, rage and power to "become stronger", "fit in", "be tougher", so they wouldn't get hurt again. I personally think this is a heavy transfeminine nonbinary coded narrative, enough that I consider narratives like these to be integral to my other CAMAB nonbinary headcanons, such as Colonel.EXE from Megaman Battle Network and Hugo from Street Fighter (both of whom I will discuss in other mod posts). In short, I think if she decided to explore their gender and eventually figure out they were on the feminine and gender neutral spectrums of nonbinary gender, she would probably feel a lot better about themself and wouldn't have to force herself to be toxically masculine and cruel to "be strong."--mod @sunkern-plus
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I JUST FINISHED THE DLC THAT THE EPILOGUE IS ALREADY OUT ?!?!? AAAAAAAAH I DONT CARE I HAVE FINALS NEXT WEEK I'M SO EMOTIONFULL !!!!
Kieran's character developement was delicious, kicking his ass with ogerpon was nice, but seeing warm up again, throw a masterball AND THE SUNRISE SCENE OMG. Also Carmine doesn't get enough recognition, her character devellopement was more subtle but oh so good too !
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