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Marvel's attempt at introducing non-binary characters
(thelemmy.club)
Yes those are their actual names, after the backlash they never appeared in published comic(these are from sneak peaks at a then unreleased new New Warriors series) apparently their origin involved inhaling 'internet gas'
On the one hand, non-binary people don't owe anyone androgyny: my own non-binary OC reads as pretty fem-presenting outside of xyr own fictional culture, but goes by xe/xem, You Can Just Do That. So if these two characters were real people, we hopefully wouldn't be complaining about them not looking "enby enough."
On the other hand… It really does feel in context like they just took a stock woman and man, gave them both short hair, and gave the woman the boy color and the man the girl color, and called it a day. It feels like a pretty cringe forced insertion of the gender binary, I guess.
This is always the difference between writing a character in a particular way and a conscious human being choosing to act in a particular way. A character has no agency, so they'll be a collection of ideas that the creator has about that group, and if they aren't a part of that particular group and don't actually bother to research them and try to understand them, it will most likely end up with the character just being a bunch of stereotypes.
It's really frustrating, I apparently put more effort into researching and writing characters for fucking porn games than big projects with huge budgets like this do.
As opposed to non-fucking porn games, of which there aren't very many.
I meant fucking as in emphasis, there is actually no fucking in this porn game, it's all tasteful fades to black.
Yeah, I'm just pullin' yer leg, yankin' yer chain.