#Sena Bryer

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[okami-zero]

A PSA xD

[torpedopickle]

A small PSA about Dawntrail

In the wake of all the harassment and blatant bigotry being hurled at Sena Bryer for her performance as Wuk Lamat in FFXIV Dawntrail, I really think it's time we have a conversation about knee-jerk reactions and how the inability to process them can very easily be a slippery slope to hate.

Like most people, I have sadly at a few points in my life heard a trans woman speak and then my brain takes a second to process it and then goes "That doesn't sound like a lady. That's not a lady"

These knee-jerk reactions aren't uncommon when for instance first meeting a character voiced by a trans VA in a video game. But what's important is that you stop and tell yourself;

"I just had a thought I did not like. Why is that?"

It's SO important that you interrogate yourself whenever you have thoughts like that. You need to dismantle those thoughts, pull them apart and refute them. Only then can you start to unlearn programmed prejudice.

Teach yourself that "they don't sound feminine/masculine" is an invalid train of thought. Ignore it and go on with your life until you stop having that thought. Then you've grown.

It's important that you DON'T indulge these trains of thoughts. Don't follow them, they don't go anywhere good. They go to a place that starts to make you irrarionally upset every time you hear trans people speak because you're not allowing your brain to ignore the disconnect it believes exists between voice and gender.

Thats how you end up with dozens of forum threads where gamers rant about how angry they get when a rather inoffensive character opens their mouth.

[emoshep]

so this is terrible.

not liking Wuk Lamat is one thing, but going after Sena is not cool. it is, dare i say, way fucking uncool.

and let's be clear: we know this case is because of transphobia. people will make all sorts of excuses for this behavior, like "oh this always happens to VAs," which doesn't make it okay regardless, or "well the performance was terrible," which wouldn't make it okay regardless, or whatever else. (also what the fuck were you listening to?)

well, we're not idiots and it's not fucking rocket science. the hatred against Sena is rooted in transphobia. it is so glaringly obvious that only a genuine idiot would fail to realize it.

and all the while, her industry is doing nothing about it. because of course it isn't. fuckin hell.

i'll leave it here: wuk lamat is fucking awesome and i thank Sena for bringing the character to life the way she did. she doesn't deserve to be treated like this.

[marcmarcmomarc]

May Marigold (has no individual lines, but can be heard chattering, sobbing, gasping, cheering, laughing, and exclaiming, “Ooh,” and “Aww,” provided by Sena Bryer)

“Thank you for your patience.”

“The Ever After is real.”

“The greatest warrior to ever live.”/“Neo abused me with illusions of our dead friends.”

“Afterans don’t die, they ascend.”

“Jaune was the Rusted Knight.”/“I blew up at the others.”/“Summer Rose was my mom.”/“The Cat was eaten by five Jabberwalkers.”

“Yang and Blake are girlfriends now.”

RAVEN: “First time for everything.”

“We beat the Cat!”/“The Gods got kicked out by their mother.”/“I’m not giving up anytime soon.”/“I’m proud to call all of you my family.”

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edit:

HER NAME'S WUK LAMAT, HER VA'S SENA BRYER AND TRANS!