mettaton is a trans man who exclusively uses he/him pronouns and if u r reading this and about to reply with "but-" "well i think-" then pls do me a favour and block me
@makemicute To sum it up and considering your words it also just sounds like "he was born genderless and he transitioned to be agender". I don't wanna get on bs about who can be considered trans and who can't but that is just a bit funky
@makemicute And obviously pronouns don't equal gender, but for a character to go from being a nobody (genderless) to be happy in his dream body (that's heavily masculine presenting ) I personally don't feel like it could mean anything other than him longing to be a man
@makemicute I know that you don't mean to say he's cis! But since ghosts are born genderless it is (from my point of view) harmful. I obv can't dictate how you interpret a character but the general implication behind your words to a general reader is still, unfortunately, erasure
character is a trans man cause oh boy we havs so little of them! While mettaton is free in expressing his feminine side, I don't think there were any instances where it affected his perception of self
I see a few ppl saying mettaton is nonbinary. Hello? Even if they mean no harm that's still identity erasure, since all ghosts are born nonbinary. And even if they weren't, saying a canonically trans character has a different queer identity it's still harmful, esp if that (1)
@makemicute I get that because he doesn't conform to gender norms it might seem like he wouldn't fit himself into any sort of a box (pun intended), but he very much does. His desire for his robot form that's very much a man and resentment to being a genderless ghost shows that clearly
@makemicute what? mettaton's desired form is a man, and he was an agender ghost before, so that's basically saying a trans character is cis. While he is obviously gnc (for ex enjoys dresses bc fem presentation doesn't restrict him), he only refers to himself by he and him
@teomeows@makemicute he is not ftm by definition (xtm? if this term exists) but he parallels a lot of actual trans men in their journey. I think ppl just intersect the terms ftm and trans man without really thinking about the inclusivity
ppl r so obsessed w portraying tenna as abusive and i know he doesn't Canonically have bpd but considering how many ppl w bpd relate to him it rlly just reeks of the same stigma/ableism we suffer