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Sometimes they're trans incidentally. Like, it's not that big a deal for the character and you'd only know if you dug into it.
I'm thinking of Claire from Cyberpunk 2077, it doesn't really come up. Which is quite the juxtaposition of trans women as sexual objects all over the in-game in-universe advertisements. Or Madeline from Celeste is trans. But it's not a big deal necessarily in game. Or Vivian from Paper Mario, she was locked about her trans status and misgendered in the original Japanese, then erased as being trans in the GameCube English release, and now on the switch they got rid of the misgendering but at least made it clear she is trans.
I dunno how I feel about it. I wish I lived in a world where I could be trans, incidentally instead of as a big deal in your face political act. Or I could be seen as a trans (trans in teensy tiny letters) woman.
Talking about the gender fuckery in Earthbound tied to a very unfortunate and date slur for the Romani
One unfortunate one is the Magypsy (Mag*psy if it gets removed) from Earthbound - unfortunate because of the naming not because of their powerful gender fuckery and magic. As a group they're very fascinating.Video games and cyberspace is a very good medium to explore trans as a status or as an identity. Something about the nature of the internet letting us put on masks (or take them off) and bringing people who may otherwise have been quite ostracized and suppressed makes cyberspace so seemingly key to being trans in the modern western world.