#whereas i want it to be entwined with the character and preferably their arc too

shinji ikari is probably my favourite blatant transfem egg character that certain people get SO fucking mad when you say that. like I'm sorry that you (trans or cis) put so much of your ideas of manhood onto this character but actually masculinity is a prison for her and I've known like 3 girls like her.

same with how ppl treat Jessie pinkman where it's like the fact that ppl have put so much of their own masculinity projection onto him that any discussion of him being trans etc gets you murdered like it's some personal fucking attack on them.

soup-mother

possibly a controversial statement here but uh... a character being written to have been explicitly deemed male from birth both in and out of universe is in fact probably more indicative of being transfem than some other trans reading?

like there's certain systems of violent gender assignment and societal coercion at play here that make me suspect that the eggy robot boy might actually be more likely to come out as a trans girl than having secretly having transitioned into being a guy the whole time

#nge #breaking bad #i never finished eva but this is SO true about jesse.#there are worlds where like... if someone was a fully transitioned dude it would come up. someone would be nasty about it #jesse cannot have had top surgery without having to raise thousands. and there wasn't an episode abt that so it didnt happen.#q #also i Like closeted readings of characters!! that's real!#it feels like a lot of transmasc readings of canon dude chars want it to not really affect them much?#whereas i want it to be entwined with the character and preferably their arc too