#bp: aisha

[dreamtydraw]

Maybe nakedtoaster in wedding dress?

eveytime someone ask me a character in a wedding dress the only though I have is "I hope they have an open back because wedding dresses make you sweat a lot"

very not charming remark to make I know... ANYWAY-

[playchoicesconfessions]

Sent by anonymous

‘I genuinely miss aisha bhatt so much. I also think she's one of the most attractive LIs and I want her so bad’

POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

[koko-heads]

my humble offering

[lght-shwr]

hi Freya! could you please suggest Korean names and English/Stage names for an Everglow Aisha fc? that would work well as a Blackpink Addition? thanks so much!

🧚‍♀️ . . . ANDREA IS HERE !

Hello there ! Below the cut are NINE ( 9 ) Korean names and SEVEN ( 7 ) English stage names that could fit AISHA ! Let me know if you need any more !

KOREAN !

Dabin

Areum

Eunseo

Jinri

Hana

Jiyeon

Somin

Yoobin

Chaesol

ENGLISH !

Allison

Bailey

Marina

Sabrina

Zoey / Zoe

Lucy

Jinny

[storyofmychoices]

SpreadJoy #887 spreading positivity with quotes and @playchoices characters.

Quote by Loung Ung

For @choicespride: Aisha Bhatt (BP)

[masked-alien-lesbian]

Who are 10 characters you wished were LIs?

Ok so I went over the 10 limit lol

Faith (KOD), Vivian (TPA) and Diana (BP). Faith because I love the friends to lovers trope and there was like 5 times in the book I thought her and mc should have kissed. Vivian because I loved her personality and I didn't much care for Agent Gray and our ex lover. And Diana, I thought was super pretty and I liked her personality much more than I did Aisha.

Then all the female side characters in OH that I love. I wanted Harper as a LI soooo bad! I love older women and if Ethan could be a LI then there was no reason for Harper to not be a LI as well. My 2nd favorite was Sienna, I love shy sweethearts so she captivated me. Then Kyra and Aurora. I really thought that they would be LIs when I was first reading OH and the fact that we flirted with both of them and pb didn't lead through...let's just say I haven't reread the series again and I refuse to because of the lack of f!LI. Jackie was not my type and so OH was a single LI book for me as wlw. I really feel like if OH was written around the same time as LOA, we would have had hookup options at least.

Then there's Ximena from ROD, again, didn't much care for Mona and Logan wasn't goc, which he really should have been, but I fell for Ximena hard! She was so kind and called mc "sweetie" and I think "darling" and when a hot butch calls me sweetie or darling, I fold faster than a deck of cards lol.

And there's Addison Dalton and Jordan from TNA. I found the Addison's sprites gorgeous! And I loved the idea of mc leaving Sam for Sam's ex-wife or the old nanny falling for the new nanny. Pretty much I liked everyone who wasn't Sam lol.

And then honorable mention for hookup ideas:

Sofia (TNA) and Serafine (BB). I don't necessarily want to endgame choose these two in the books but I wanted to hookup with them. For one hot moment I thought Sofia was going to come onto us in book 1 when mc helped her in the dressing room with her wedding dress. I was very disappointed when it ended up being a verbal cat fight over Sam. I also thought the writers should have allowed us to hookup with Serafine in BB (book 2 I think? Or was it book 1, when we meet her? Idk, the series was very disappointing to me and very m!LI in my face to reread the series in awhile) but when we went to the club and there was a threesome option with Adrian and Jax, the wlw should have been given an option to hook up with Serafine.

[yourqueenb]

I remember you saying that MAH would've been better as a short slasher, so are there any other books that you think would also have been improved if they were significantly shorter (like if they cut out a lot of filler chapters/scenes)? Or for that matter, are there books that you think would've been better if they were longer than the usual 16-18ish chapters that Choices usually does (to make the story feel better developed and less rushed)?

Bachelorette Party definitely would’ve been better as a mini book instead of a regular length one. And I’m really not sure why that wasn’t something they considered. There was no reason for it to go on as long as it did, especially because it was neither entertaining nor funny. It was just really stupid imo. Courtney was annoying as hell, and her smiling sprite was terrifying. And I couldn’t stand Aisha and that damn briefcase. IIRC, that was the main reason the story dragged on for so long. The best thing to come out of that book was Ash Tanaka, but I feel like people forget about him because he was unlucky enough to be a part of BP.

Witness and MTFL both had the issue of an unlikeable MC. But I feel like that issue wouldn’t have been so pronounced if both books were shorter as well. All Witness MC and Cassian did was screw and argue for like 25 chapters. And they literally had MTFL MC wait until the 100th damn chapter to decide who she wanted to be with. Not to mention that god-awful first person narration along the way.

I think this last one is controversial, but Immortal Desires was also far too long. It just dragged week after week because the first 9 or 10 chapters were the same thing over and over again. Hang out with Cas. Hang out with Gabe. Oh no, our Mom’s sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong so we have to stand trial in front of the council again! Rinse and repeat 🙄 If they hadn’t wasted so much time on all of that, the ending wouldn’t have been so rushed and awkward now that they’ve decided to make a book 2

[say-ulalalala]

What / Who I Write For

Basically just a small masterpost on the characters / idols I write for, and also the things I write about! ^^

What I write:

Fluff, romance, angst, crack, and sometimes smut (but only for HBO Max's Warrior characters) or anything in-between;

Occasionally, I might write about dark topics (mainly abuse and mental health issues (these will be tagged as such)) and maybe anything with children;

I also write based on headcanons as well;

Idols who are 04 liners and older;

Character Ships, Character x Fem!/AFAB!/Gender Neutral Reader, Idol Pairings;

Drabbles (Single Drabbles, Double Drabbles, and Triple Drabbles), Standalone fics (both short and long ones), Songfics, Multi-chapter fics and AUs, and maybe scenarios

What I don't write:

Anything containing non-con, abuse, incest, homophobia, transphobia, racism, etc;

Idol x Reader;

Male readers;

BP / GP;

Smut for kpop idols;

Basically anything I'm uncomfy with

Who I write for:

HBO Max's Warrior

Ah Sahm, Ah Toy, Mai Ling, Li Yong, Nellie Davenport, Eliza Pendleton

Kpop groups (more groups might be added in the near future):

Aespa

Yoo Jimin / Karina, Uchinaga Aeri / Giselle, Kim Minjeong / Winter, Ning Yizhuo / Ningning

Enhypen

Lee Heeseung, Park Jongseong / Jay, Sim Jaeyun / Jake, Park Sunghoon, Kim Sunoo, Yang Jungwon

Everglow

Park Jiwon / E:U, Kim Sihyeon, Heo Yoorim / Aisha, Wang Yiren

Ive

Kim Gaeul, An Yujin, Naoi Rei, Jang Wonyoung, Kim Jiwon / Liz

Lapillus

Chantal Videla / Chanty, Nonaka Shana, Nancy Yang / Yue, Susanna Kim / Bessie

Le Sserafim

Miyawaki Sakura, Kim Chaewon, Huh Yunjin, Nakamura Kazuha

Red Velvet

Bae Joohyun / Irene, Kang Seulgi, Son Seungwan / Wendy

That's all for now I guess, further notes and reminders will be stated in my works :)

[peonyblossom]

10 Characters:

Aisha (BP), Asher (Alpha), Aislinn, Beau (LOA), Andy, Lily (ILITW), Baz, Zaid (OH), Dee Dee (GG), Wrenn (AME)

Marry: Aisha

Drink tea with: Andy

Party with: Wrenn

Kiss: Dee Dee

Go out on a date with: Aislinn

Push down the stairs: uuuhhhhhhhh rip idk maybe Zaid???

Slap: Asher???? ig???

Invade the dreams of: Lily <3

Take a nap with: Baz

Rob: Beau (I love him but he's also a nepo baby and that needs to be accounted for i'm so sorry)

[kflixnet]

PART I | PART II | PART III | PART IV

• abby, [ enhyqenn + luvsellie ] ↳ she/her | en- “simply existing on the knowledge that i got to see enhypen irl.”

• ace, [ hyuukais + sun-of-ghosts ] ↳ they/it | txt, skz “god gave me hueningkai as apology for everything else in my life.”

• aisha, [ jenotapes ] ↳ any pronouns | nct “in a mental relationship with we go up mv mark.”

• aiya, [ aisclosed + aisopen​ + aisnextdoor​ ] ↳ she/her | en-, nct dream “feeding into my own delusions.”

• alexa, [ cherryhanji ] ↳ she/her | skz “i know i'm a handful, but that's why you got two hands!”

• ally, [ winterchimez + midnightfantasiez ] ↳ she/her | tbz “jesus take the wheel.”

• amanda, [ lee--felix ] ↳ she/they | skz, oneus, txt, atz “fics write themselves actually, i’m just the middleman with computer access.”

• angel, [ dadonbabysworld ] ↳ she/her | skz “wait did i just fail?”

• anne, [ bikerjongho + applejongho ] ↳ she/her | atz, skz “i just think that jongho in a leather jacket.”

• aries, [ ninihoons ] ↳ she/her | bp, bts, en- “stream daydream.”

• ariku, [ arikiu ] ↳ she/her | en-, txt “are you wi-fi? because i feel a connection.”

• artai, [ seokminded ] “artai is the name, delulu is the game.” ↳ she/her | svt

• artemis, [ ctrlemis + ddeonusbf ] ↳ they/them | en-, ive “sunoo will never be your bias the same way he’s** my** bias.”

• ash, [ ethereal-engene ] ↳ she/her | atz, en-, svt, txt, tbz, nct, cravity “free falling into another universe? sounds about right.”

• august, [ sunboki​ ]  ↳ she/her | skz, en- “...it's a crying scene again isn't it.”

• autumn, [ smileyerim ] ↳ she/her | nct, skz “if you make me the banker in monopoly i will cheat and steal all of the money, that is a promise.”

• avis, [ yoongimooni + avis-writeshq ] ↳ she/her | bts, en-, skz “stay sexcie besties 🫰”

• ayzie, [ hyubcore ] ↳ any pronouns | d6, n-flying, nct, onewe, the rose “the angst connoisseur! for anyone who needs to just feel something.”

• bai, [ hwaightme ] ↳ she/her | atz “in my chaotic era.”

• bee, [ heecyon ] ↳ she/her | en- “loving ourselves can be a tough journey, but we will get there.”

• benny, [ jakes-tummy + jisungs-tummy ] ↳ he/him | en-, txt “might just make out with your mom and become your stepdad.”  

• betty, [ totalbetty ] ↳ she/her | nct “can someone go to my settings and turn off anxiety mode?”

• bii, [ bichaeng ] ↳ she/her | twice, svt, atz, nct dream, skz, en-, ive “i think i just lost my last two braincells.”

• boo, [ horangboosadan + ladybugsfanfics ]   ↳ they/them | svt “there exists as many definitions of love as there are stars in the universe.”

• bree, [ jaeminri ] ↳ she/her; svt, en- “a hopeless romantic has heart shaped, pastel pink brain cells with sticky white accents.”

• brooke, [ lebrookestore ] ↳ she/her | nct, en-  “taeyong’s bitch (it’s true).”

• cai, [ ohvu + one16core ] ↳ she/her | en-, txt  “why so complicated.”

• cait(lin), [ sw1mmingfoolz + svtsunshine ] ↳ any pronouns | skz, svt, nct, wayv “tch, hairband 😏.”

• carmela, [ carmelakimtodoroki ] ↳ she/her | atz, txt, tbz, en-, nct (all), svt, skz, p1h, bts “there are no enemies in life. only friends and lessons.”

• cath, [ magicshopaholic + deathcabindiagonalley ] ↳ she/her | bts “till watching grey's anatomy in the year of the lord 2022″

• chaerin, [ whoschr ] ↳ she/her | en- “playing: strawberry moon by twice.”

• charlie, [ 2009-jooyeonly ]  ↳ any pronouns | skz, txt, enha, p1h, svt, bts, xdh, nct, bnd, zb1, ooo, riize, ive “pasta.”

• cherry, [ staranghae ]  ↳ she/her | svt, ateez, skz, txt “studying can wait but this fic can't.”

• cien, [ hacien ] ↳ he/him | ghost9, svt “xu minghao is so 🤭.”

• cin, [ cinnabunhwa ] ↳ any pronouns | skz, atz, svt “park seonghwa owns my entire life.”

• dala, [ jluver + urh20gf ] ↳ she/her | en-, txt, skz, svt “i have no social skills but one time someone told me i'm funny (it was my mom).”

• d(r)ea, [ yuyusuyu ] ↳ she/her | atz, tbz “i love men (yunho)! men are so slay (yunho)!”

• ej (or jj), [ tzyuki ] ↳ any pronouns | en-, txt “i can’t write angst if my life depended on it.”

• eli, [ peachyho ] ↳ anything but she | atz, en- “hey wanna see my collection of skulls ?? maybe we can add yours to the collection haha jk... unless?”

• ella, [ nomniki ] ↳ she/her | en-, skz, txt “let’s play forever i just wanna be your dog.”

• eve, [ hwaflms ] ↳ she/her | atz, nct, skz, tbz “men who aren't hwang hyunjin, stfu <3.”

• fae, [ haerinz + jangwonie ] ↳ she/her | en-, ive “wonwon cross enthusiast !!♡.”

• faith, [ keiwook ]  ↳ she/her | zb1 “i don't think park gunwook is real.”

• hanny, [ koroktsuya ] ↳ she/her | en-, bts “searing heart, take me now.”

• jella, [ moonjella ] ↳ she/her | skz “day [???] of missing han jisung.”

• jiah, [ okwonyo ] ↳ she/he | en-, lesserafim, svt, txt “from my heart to yours”

• jj, [ jj-stay ] ↳ any pronouns | skz “life is not a fairy tale so if you lose your shoe at 12 your drunk.”

• kai, [ honeyhuii ] ↳ they/she | every group and soloists “gotta blast choo choo train.”

• kaira, [ woobly ] ↳ they/she | atz, tbz, p1h “the devil works hard, but i - don’t, sorry.”

• kalli, [ cherryeoniis ] ↳ she/her | nct, txt, en- “if we never try, how will we know?”

• lana, [ kazmura ] ↳ she/her | en-, txt “delusion k*lls.”

• lela, [ hwasdollie ] ↳ she/they | txt, atz, bts “park seonghwa. that’s it, that’s the quote.”

• lia, [ angelwonie ] ↳ she/her | bts, en-, skz, txt “i’m in my delulu era <3.”

• mai, [ maiwon ] ↳ any pronouns | en- “snorts.”

• moon, [ moonlighthoon ] ↳ she/her | en-, txt, &team “coming up with a story idea and images of how i want it to be is easy. now if i could just get the words to write themselves, that'd be great!”

• mya, [ myaheartsmarkie ] ↳ she/her | nct “wait....what were we just talking about again?”

• nala, [ celestialgyu ] ↳ she/her | itzy, txt “wdym i can't pay off my student loans in yeonjun pcs?”

• nani, [ xfirebenderx ] ↳ she/her | svt “i will soon forget the color of your eyes and you’ll forget mine.”

• nyx, [ dreamyyeosang ]   ↳ she/her | atz, skz, txt  “brb, getting a degree in making bad desicions ;).”

• pearl, [ eumppattv ]  ↳ she/her | en-, zb1 “being delulu is my job.”

• rae / raena, [ reikaryu + raevyng ] “your local starbucks and seungkwan enthusiast” ↳ she/her | nct, svt, tbz

• rie, [ pyeonghongrie + pyeonghongrie-main + pyeonghongreations​ ] ↳ he/him | atz, txt “i may have girlbossed too close to the sun..”

• rose, [ yyawnjun + nxtsnw ] ↳ she/they; en-, svt “fluff and delusional over the moon <3.”

• s, [ moonlightjongin + taexkai ] ↳ she/her | exo, shinee, superm, bts, atz, skz “cuz when 🥳 we jumping 🤸‍♂️ and popping 🎉 we jopping 💃.”

• sab, [ icysab ] ↳ she/her | en-, txt “i was a lesbian until choi beomgyu.”

• seol, [ wvnkoi ] ↳ she/her | en-, zb1, txt “why be scared when you breathe the same air as the lee heeseung??”

• tia, [ myonos​ ] ↳ she/her | en- “i am winging it.”

• tori, [ qianinterprises ] ↳ she/her | nct “exploring worlds and universes through the safety of a computer screen. that’s what fanfiction is.”

• val, [ fairybinie ] ↳ she/they | txt “let’s just assume everyone in here doesn’t like me.”

• yen, [ yenqa ] “can u can a can as a canner can can a can” ↳ she/they | en-

• yeonie, [ wonryllis ] ↳ she/her | en- “kkakong! ^#^.”

• z, [ kmgkmg + fairyzar ] ↳ they/them | svt, nct “assa hongsam, everybody hongsam!”

• zoe, [ zi-ever ] ↳ she/her | svt, ive, skz, en-, txt “follow your dreams yea ofc but follow me too.”

[dreamtydraw]

saw u had doodle requests on....may I ask for a quest doodle..

Lemme just… lemme… put my ship… right here… lemme just…. *drop it*

[storyofmychoices]

In no particular order: Nia, Valex, Imtura (Blades), Addison Sinclair (RCD), Jackie, Aurora, Keiki, Sienna, Ines (OpH) Kenna, Annelyse, Val (TCATF), Olivia (TRR), Briar (D&D), Shreya Mistry and Aster D'Yew (TE), Aisha Bhatt (BP), Charlie Smith (DS), Kate O'Malley and Naomi Silverhawk (VoS), Mother, Daugter, and Eiko (moty), the twin sisters (RoE), Mags, Astrid, Ruby, Lydea (CoP) Lily and Kamilah (BB)

I'm blanking on other books atm but there are so many lovely ladies! But Nia is my favorite girlie!

choices fandom reply/rb with your favorite canon female character (no goc characters or MCs) and why you like them i wanna hear about your favorite girlies

[kaddresources-a]

Hii! Thank God I found your blog, I used to follow lots of similar ones but they're all gone or inactive so thank you 😭

Can I have some female fc around 1998-200 that could fit as a maknae, main or lead rapper in a 4 member gg (like bp little mix, new jeans as a concept) ??

hi! here’s 15 girls that i think fit into your criteria! and i’m assuming the last year is 2000...? please lmk if that isn’t the case :) remember to cast accordingly and everyone is korean unless specified.

1998

yeeun - ex clc

eunseo - wjsn

e:u - everglow

jisun - fromis_9

jinny - secret number

1999

yuqi - (g)i-dle (chinese)

sihyeon - everglow

xiaoting - kep1er (chinese)

kim lip - loona

yeri - red velvet

2000

karina - aespa

jiwon - cherry bullet

aisha - everglow

chaeyoung - fromis_9

dosie - purple kiss

[monaownsmyass]

Aisha x mc

vomit / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / sexy / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying /i will ship them in hell

I love Aisha, I miss her. In fact I miss the entire BP crew and their stupid misadventures. The fact that MC and Aisha (I think) have liked each other since they were in college 😭

[masked-alien-lesbian]

This might be a hard pill for some wlw to swallow but you do realize male readers read gl f!mc books and romance the female versions of goc LIs, right? And in their AU, they romance the LIs as themselves. And UNLESS the writers or the characters themselves confirm their sexuality, the female versions of the goc LIs (Ina Kingsley, Samantha Dalton, Jacqueline Monroe etc) can be bisexual or pansexual. They're not automatically a lesbian and it's not lesbophobic for a guy to romance a goc LI.

Now if they try and romance a canon lesbian character like Annabelle Parsons, Eiko from MOTY, or Aisha from BP, THAT is lesbophobic.

[cadybear420]

Really wishing PB would add an "are you cis or trans" menu like ILW and BB:TS Demo have, plus options to choose your anatomy separately from bodytype which I think ILW also had . Like I don't think it's that hard? I feel like it would solve a lot of these problems. And not just for the GOC books either, btw. Most of the genderlocked books, including the pointfully GL'd ones, could be really interesting to play as a trans woman MC. Especially books like BP and KND, which literally have canon trans women Aisha and Saff in their girl squad groups.

They/them options and choosing pronouns separately from bodytype (which they consistently included in most of 2022's new GOC books but pretty much dropped for all of 2023's new GOC books, which is not giving me good vibes, thankfully we're getting them back in TDG) is a good start, but there's more that can be done.

And seriously I will never fucking shut up about the clothing stuff on God. Why do the fem bodytype versions of an outfit need to be all slinky and revealing while the masc bodytype versions are more basic? Granted they have been stepping up their risque game with some of the masc body outfits in books like DLS, Alpha, TCH 2, and ID 2. But Even in those books and other books like Unbridled they often fall into what's basically the Female Video Game Armor trope but with a different coat of paint.

And people will complain about others wanting more GOC stories because "the video game industry has been catering to men for years, this is one of the few video games with female locked playable characters". Putting aside all the other problematic implications with that statement (if you can)... is this the game you wanna defend as that? Really? I will never not emphasize this. "One of the few games catered to women", yet the game in question hardly gives a damn about sapphic, aroacespec, trans, and GNC women. But sure, give them brownie points for doing the bare fucking minimum I guess.

Why do like, 90% of the GOC LIs in the past 2 years put the female versions in midriff crop tops while the male ones are not? And I really do mean this estimated statistic. Devon from TPS, Gabe and Cas from ID, Jordan from GG, Drew from RWB, Blake from FCL, Kaine from KND, formal outfit for Charlie from DLS, Channing from Alpha, Ash from Guarded...

If this TFS Chris Romantic Getaway side story doesn't completely expose their mindset with outfits and gender, then IDK what does lol (seriously, fuck this whole scene).

Anyways, continuing on. I'm a GNC cis woman, and every time the narration has to talk about how an outfit shows off "the curves of your waist" or when a LI has to give attention to my character's breasts (or ass, but I see it with breasts more commonly), it takes me right out of the story. It's part of why I prefer to play the smutty stories with a male/masc MC, but even then they have to make it all about his muscles instead. Because the only way for women to be attractive is to have "le sexy feminine curves" and the only way for men to be attractive is to have "le big strong muscles" apparently.

I'd like to see them change things up a bit. Like a female or fem bodytype MC get attention for stuff like shoulders, arms, hands. A male or masc bodytype MC getting attention for stuff like hips, ass, legs. Or, since the bodytype options are limited, at least allow us to imagine MC's bodtype a bit differently from how the sprite looks and give us bodytype neutral writing.

Also, for the love of god, different bodytypes for LIs too. I understand not doing it for MCs because it means different versions of an outfit for all the bodytypes, but LIs generally will always have fixed bodytypes so you could at least vary that up a bit.

Okay I'm maybe getting a bit off topic here IDK, but I'll finish it off by saying that... yeah, we aren't just complaining for no reason. We're complaining because we know PB can do better. People have said that of these kinds of apps, Choices is the best one for queer players, because most of the other VN apps similar to Choices don't even have GOC options or female LI options very often if at all. We have higher expectations for PB because we know they can do better.

If a bunch of passionate independent fancreators can incorporate stuff like cis/trans options in a non-profit VN fangame, what excuse does a professional company have?

i haven't yet gotten to book 2 but i read the wiki just in case and then i got to this part... WHAT. like literally what. i'm guessing what's happening here is one of two options

what they actually mean is "the third option depends on your character's pronouns, unless they use they/them pronouns, in that case it depends on their body type" but they didn't actually word it like that because it'd seem transphobic as fuck

they really do mean it depends strictly on mc's body type, not pronouns at all, meaning an mc that looks fem according to body type but uses he/him pronouns will still be called "queen" by the game and viceversa

long ass rant incoming lol

and it's not even specifically this fuck up in a supposedly "inclusive" book that makes me so mad but the fact that there's also the one MAH scene, the scene that discusses queer identities openly and maturely in a book that's supposed to be one of the most inclusive and queer friendly in the entire app, that when it's mc's turn to speak on what they've experienced, if they have a body type that doesn't match their pronouns and have romanced a li with the opposite pronouns (ie feminine body type, he/him pronouns and romanced stevie, or masculine body type, she/her pronouns and romanced a male li) the game treats mc like a cishet person by default and completely ignores body type. i don't know about y'all but i certainly find it ironic that, again, in one of the most queer friendly books, the only option to be considered queer "by default" by the game (and thus get the question of what you've experienced) if you're playing as a trans mc is to date someone of the same gender.

but let's go back to crimes of passion for a moment, eh? specifically the very first chapter. despite the dialogue here depending only on body type instead of pronouns, in the case of the first chapter (specifically the scene where trystan and mc first meet) it's a completely different situation, here it does depend strictly on pronouns even if it literally doesn't make sense. in my first ever play, i played as my usual mc, a nb!mc romancing m!trystan, and me being nb, trystan called me "a stranger". not particularly unusual, right? after all, "stranger" is gender neutral, and so i thought that was the dialogue in all cases. well... it's not. i decided to play differently, specifically with the masc body type, she/her pronouns, and f!trystan. she literally called me a "strange woman" despite not being able to guess that mc's pronouns are she/her just by looking at her, because obviously there's only two body types, fem and masc, and it's not like we ever get gnc clothing styles. that, and in all cases mc never tells trystan their pronouns, so even in the nb!mc play i got quite startled at "they're a private detective". yes, that can be interpreted as trystan simply not wanting to assume genders or it being a case of culture shock from drakovia, but then what about my masc f!mc?

and that's because pb never intended to add inclusivity in terms of binary trans mcs, or even just queer mcs beyond "gay, lesbian, bi, or non-binary BUT if they're nb they have to be either fem or masc" (see: option to pick specific sexuality for mc only appearing in the elementalists and then never again, except in the royal masquerade but they removed the option to be ace so that doesn't count for me). they never intended for players to play as a masculine looking mc that uses she/her or a feminine looking mc that uses he/him.

if they really cared about inclusivity, they would let mcs be androgynous. they would add skirts, dresses, stereotypically "fem" clothing - or just clothing that isn't just a plain t shirt or a suit in formal situations for amab or masc looking mcs. they would add more pants, baggy clothing, more stereotypically "masc" clothing - or just options that aren't always incredibly revealing slinky dresses or crop tops and short skirts meant to "emphasize your sexy feminine curves" for afab or fem looking mcs. THEY WOULD ADD NON BINARY LIS AND MORE TRANS LIS. they wouldn't have the only option to play as an explicitly trans mc (or, well, the closest thing to "explicitly trans" there can be given there's absolutely no dialogue or even implication about mc being trans in any pronoun of choice book, save for MAH but i already complained about my problems) be playing with an extremely feminine/masculine body type and having the pronouns as the only indication mc is trans, completely ignoring the dysphoria that'd give many actually trans players.

no, that's not their intention and it's never been that. their sole reason for adding the "body type separate from pronouns" is to categorize mcs that use they/them and tell them they have to be either feminine or masculine, no androgynous or gender non conforming options at all. basically the question "but are you a GIRL non binary or a BOY non binary?" they would've probably forced she/her or he/him mcs into their respective body types and only ask "but are you a pretty feminine afab enby or a handsome masculine amab enby" to they/them mcs but they knew they'd get the backlash of their lives for that so they just went "we'll just ask for body type regardless, it's not like players will actually pick he/him pronouns while playing as a WOMAN right???"

conclusion/tldr. if pb actually wanted inclusivity, they can actually put in the work and acknowledge that people do want to play as an explicitly queer mc beyond just same gender relationships and performatively adding they/them pronouns to only SOME goc books, or else just don't do anything and show they don't care at all. not pretend they care but only add the bare minimum and pat themselves on the back for it.