#I've already complained abt how the Guardian's gender is handled or I'd rant about that again too

[roboromantic]

like okay re: Nimbus and gender:

I said before I don't really like their design. the baby face just doesn't work and kinda feels like an attempt to keep them looking "neutral" rather than recognize that people can have beards or y'know. be older than 20. and still be nb. it's just really weird bc like. they're ripped and have a bulge for crying out loud. I know I said I wanted conflicting looks but I still want it to look like one cohesive person, not a kid face slapped onto an adult body.

and yet again it's like Why do they have to be young. I get that that's part of the whole storyline but you could still have a brash trainee that's a Bit older

As with other video game characters, I'm once again seeing people just completely miss the fact that they are constantly and consistently referred to with they/them and refer to them with he/him instead. that doesn't really have anything to do w/the character or writing, but I think it's more proof that the more familiar use of singular they to refer to someone of unknown gender means it's often seen as a sort of invisible placeholder pronoun even when used by nonbinary people (which is why I say not to use they/them for me. Neopronouns are far harder to ignore and imo make it obvious that I'm nonbinary)

The bit where Nimbus tells you their real name is. hm. it's done before you find out Cloud Striders all have uuuhhh what's the word I'm looking for. Aliases? (or if they mentioned that before the exotic quest then I just completely missed it, which I admit is entirely possible.) and if it were just the voice line I think it'd probably be fine, but the flavor text being like "they used their real name, they thought you should know." 😬. What Do You Mean.

the later exotic quest shows that Cloud Striders' real names aren't like. secrets. Sure, our Guardian didn't know their name, but the flavor text coulda just said st about your Guardian being slightly confused and Nimbus clarifying. or about how it shows that they're actually being more serious. instead it feels more like that bit of dialogue in the early version of me:a where this minor trans npc just deadnamed herself for absolutely no reason.

I feel like maybe there were a couple more things I wanted to say? i forgor. I'll update if I think of more