#trans-coded cross

[ask-codeearasure]

So... About that shitty Cross take that one person made....

If you've been following certain creators, even this account, I'm sure you've spotted a specific idiot going around complaining about Cross being Trans-Coded and using Republican talking points to say that it's "forced" or "doesn't make sense" and whatever other bullshit that shouldn't even be looked at let alone acknowledged. HOWEVER, instead, we are gonna sit down and talk about how the Trans Experience is so versatile and why Cross (and similar characters) being Trans-Coded is actually extremely important.

Gender nonconformity is fucking terrifying to Republicans, this is why it's been one of this generation's favorite punching bags.

If you look at the women who are tied to the Republican Party, you see a lot of hyperfemininity, so much so it's easy to tell that Barbie is considering suing them for stealing all her plastic.

Jokes aside, gender affirming care is gender affirming care and they are using the same gender affirming care that trans people have been using for years. This isn't only about nail products and cosmetic surgery, but also breast reduction or implant surgeries.

Gender affirming care however, is demonized by the right because they don't get it nor do they acknowledge that there is a range to it.

I once read a story about how one person had realized they were trans because a friend of theirs pointed out that when they had the option of choosing the gender of their playable characters in gaming, they always went with the gender they were not assigned at a birth. Example being an AFAB person constantly choosing male characters.

Though I have not finished watching Underverse this is applicable of XFrisk and XChara shoving the name "Cross" onto... Cross. They are pointing out he is not Sans despite being assigned that name since creation. Their true intentions here had cruelty in mind, but Cross made the name his own.

He is in denial about it which is applicable to how a LOT of trans people are in denial about it sometimes. Hell I remember a Right Wing talking head on Twitter who had tried to transition, detransistioned due to pressure from their family and then stayed at their assigned gender because of it and falling for the Republican propaganda.

Denial isn't just a river. It never has been.

Some people are in denial about their gender identities and sexual orientation and with the coming presidency we are going to see a rampant uptick in that statistic. With that coming, characters like Cross are needed far more.

Cross's story, as far as I've seen, is rough and follows a lot of self-acceptance and self-advocating storylines. Even when it comes to the biggest things that anyone from the LGBTQIA+ has to face, one of these struggles being the fear of rejection and/or being rejected by one's peers.

From what I've seen when it comes to spoilers is that Cross does end up being rejected by those he was close to before meeting Ink, and thus has to come full circle and accept himself by saying "I am Cross". He has to deny the name he went by in the past. He has to because if he doesn't, he'd be giving in to living in denial of who he truly is and thus be living a life of suffering for no reason than to keep others comfortable, setting himself on fire to keep people who couldn't give a damn about him warm.

A lot of Trans people have to show their rejection of their past or even the acceptance of that past to come to terms with themselves. Each person is different when it comes down to finding who they are and accepting that. It depends on the individual.

Some treat their past and their deadname as though they're a completely different person or someone who died so they could live. Think of a phoenix rising from the ashes.

Others treat it like their past self was the caterpillar where their new and true self is the butterfly.

Is it perfect?

No.

Is Jakei a perfect writer?

No. Neither are a lot of my favorite writers and franchises (I'm looking at you Riot Games and your shitty centrist takes on the worst of human history's sins).

But some of the things that imperfect writers make are beautiful and Cross is one of them. He is one of the few characters that speaks for the writer when it comes to saying "I see you, I see your pain. I see your suffering. You are not alone. You deserve to live your life the way you want to. You are valid."

But there are a few questions that the more clueless of people are going to ask.

Why bring Politics into this? And why do Republicans like the media made by progressives?

The answers are FASCINATING.

I bring Politics into this because Republicans, specifically Cishet white people, have made everything political since the beginning of time. Everything they don't like, everything different from them, everything they don't understand, and everything that directly rebels against their patriarchal idea of "paradise" is now considered "Political".

I remember a Republican had argued the dumbest thing once, and I was so dumbfounded I had to take a step back because holy shit.

Their argument was that black people enslaved each other which made their enslavement by white people their own fault.

Now if your jaw is on the floor, you already know where the problem is. If you don't get where the problem, is let me ask you something.

If that is the case, who was the one who made it all about skin color?

I'll tell you.

It was the white people (who were Democrats before the massive party switch, which makes them modern day Republicans).

Who were the ones who made having jobs all about gender? It was the Cishet white men (99% of whom are Republicans).

Who constantly demonized the LGBTQIA+ community during the Stonewall Riots? Mostly Cishet White Republicans.

Who are demonizing Trans people right the fuck now? Republicans and Pick-Me Gay people who vote for Republicans and side with Republicans thinking that the Republicans will finally accept them when they know Republicans won't fucking do it.

Being LGBTQIA+, making non-white characters, making a character a woman, it makes that character "Political", and "Political" characters are always the ones put on the spot for accusations of "forced diversity" and "perversion" where anyone with a working sense of conscience will understand this is a talking point butthurt Republicans or those warped by Republicans pulled out of their assholes looking for a problem where there isn't one.

All art, be it animation, digital art, traditional art, singing, writing, is political. They've always been political.

Do you want to know why Republicans are always bitching about coffee orders? It's because the Enlightenment era thus leading to the Romantic Era of literature was started because of coffee shops it was where all the best writers hung out. The moment they met each other and started talking to each other, the Enlightenment and Romantic Eras started taking off in full force.

It is because of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era writers we don't have Child Labor anymore. A lot of their writing brought talks of nature and the horrors of Child Labor into question. You can't talk about the history of Child Labor without talking about William Blake's Chimney Sweeper and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Cry of the Children. You fucking can't. Without Blake and Browning we'd still have children in mines and on rooftops risking their lives to clean your fucking chimney.

And here is where we get to the why. Why Republicans LOVE progressive media.

Here is a little secret.

All shows and media made by Republicans are shit because it is all Propaganda.

I know. Shocker.

Look around.

Mr. Birchum, New Norm, Leo and Layla, it's all propaganda. It's all the same Republican talking points that they never shut up about and even then they don't know what they're talking about.

Ask a Republican what "intersex" means. Do it, I dare you.

They won't fucking know but they'll tell you that it's Satanic and shouldn't be allowed near children.

They'd never guess that it's a spectrum of natural gender nonconformity and mixed sexual/hormonal characteristics such as having PCOS or being AMAB and still having a functioning uterus. They don't care that their delusions about there only being "male" and "female" for reproductive sex options has led to medical malpractice, social abuse, murder, and erasure of intersex individuals, and the ones that do know about intersexuality diagnose it as a "Differential Sexual Development Disorder" as if just being born intersex makes someone's existence inherently wrong with an inherent need for surgical and hormonal "correcting".

Republicans like progressive media because it knows how to say something and still be well written. This is why Republicans LOVE Star Trek, Star Wars, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, and Arcane.

It's all progressive media but it all knows how to build a world and say something. Good writers are progressive and know how to write.

Don't get me wrong there is a LOT of fucking garbage that tries to be progressive but that is a small outlier that Republicans LOVE to bring out and bash on to say that we're the ones who ruin media. They make false equivalences to try to make you stop thinking. They need stop-thinking clichés and talking points because it's all they have. But they are so fucking terrified of anything different from what is in their stupid bubble that saying "Oh yeah the champion Taliya is trans" will send them screaming and crying.

Yeah, Riot Games danced around the fact that one of their characters is Trans because they knew she'd scare off the entirety of the Republican player base. They had to hide it and use her magical girl skin to gently hint at it with "Yeah when I'm in this outfit I feel more like myself!" and the entire multi hour long Star Guardian album animation having the Trans Flag being the main pallet on everything.

I honestly wonder how many Republicans ran off when they saw THAT CaitVi scene in Arcane.

Republicans just hate anything that isn't Cis, isn't Hetero, isn't a man, and isn't white. This is why it's not uncommon to find that cishet white men are always found at Klan rallies or the modern Klan rallies which are called "Trump Rallies" these days.

This is why a lot of exhausted Democrats, Liberals, and BIPOC, Feminists, and LGBTQIA+ people have been laughing their asses off at the Pick-Mes who are getting fucked over now that they realize that surprise surprise, Project 2025 was the plan! We fucking told you so, dipshit!

This is what you asked for dumbass! We tried to warn you. You didn't listen. LESSON FUCKIN LEARNT!

Republicans like progressive shit because we make good media.

Republicans HATE anything that isn't CISHET and WHITE.

Now, am I saying all this to claim the person who made that anti-trans Cross post is a Republican, an abuser, or anything else that contributed to this systematic nonsense? Absolutely fucking not. That's an extreme statement to make and they're most likely just a very mislead kid who may or may not have been influenced by a couple of these problems, and them acting out the way they did is perhaps a reflection of how important it is to acknowledge these things even if our community is just fandom and the point is to have fun, to have a distraction from all the bad powers at play.

Either way, their actions pissed me off. Hope they learn.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. Get the fuck out.

-- Ouija

[sandeewithtwoe]

I don’t think Cross knows Fresh is a parasite

Cross belongs to Jakei95

Fresh belongs to loverofpiggies

Transcript:

Cross: Sometimes, I feel like my body doesn’t belong to me

Fresh: Yo, dats totes aight, broski, I feel da same thing!

[ask-codeearasure]

Well aside from Jakei straight up saying he is, I'm going to assume you're asking about the themes that add up to him being trans-coded in the first place. Which a lot of my analyses are going to be stretches, but this is coming from a transgender person relating a lot of their own experiences to Cross's, so I think you'll live. Besides, @wickjump provided a response to this as well and star knows more about Cross than I do. If you don't like my response, she's got a better one that's a lot more accurate.

But first I want to clarify not every transgender person is going to relate to all the struggles and identity issues Cross is put through. Not every trans person has a family that rejected them. Not every trans person has been put through torture or manipulated. Not every trans person has been labeled with a term they later reclaimed for themselves. Not every trans person has experienced dysphoria.

That being said regardless, the rejection, cruelty, and labeling are all things Cross has experienced at the hands of his family. These are all things a lot of transgender people relate to and have experienced as well.

Cross has experienced cruelty from XPapyrus based on his identity as Cross and not "Sans", a name he's been assigned since creation. I mean since he looks like Sans and had powers like Sans, he simply must be Sans, right? If he doesn't like that identity, fuck him I guess. He might as well set himself on fire to keep XPapyrus warm. He might as well tolerate the verbal abuse and purposeful deadnaming from his brother because "Sans is dead", since he owes XPapyrus and the rest of his family everything for killing them over a false belief. They're the ones who gave him a life, after all, he is eternally indebted to them and must live in the way that makes them happy and comfortable, huh? This isn't to say the rest of the XTale cast has no reason to be as pissed as possible at Cross (since he did merk them all off the census before), but XPapyrus using Cross's dead identity specifically to insult and emotionally fuck with him where no one else has is worth pointing out as something a lot of transgender people experience at the hands of transphobes and unaccepting family.

XGaster has a hand in the (transphobe-coded) cruelty Cross has faced as well, though not as direct and obvious as XPapyrus's bullshit. Regardless of whatever choices Cross makes for himself, XGaster is always there to brute force him into a role he doesn't want. XGaster is the parent that has already planned a basic concept of what lives their children should live. To name an example, this is especially prevalent in religious (obviously not talking about ALL religion and not specific to religion) families, where all their children are expected to dedicate their lives to and worship the divine, marry someone from the other sex, have children, rinse and repeat.

But not everyone wants to live a life like that. Not everyone derides happiness and meaning from religion, and plenty of transgender people have religious trauma from being groomed into preplanned roles like this, rebelling, and then escaping, often being disowned and separated from their families in the process for the sake of their own health and safety.

XGaster's actions, while definitely not religious in any fashion, display quite a few parallels to the preplanned lives thing Cross tries so hard to escape, yet keeps getting roped back into because of his hated attachment to his friends and family. XGaster has a special kind of overarching "authority" over Cross's life, since he is not only Cross's creator, but his father too. A part of Cross still loves XGaster, cause that bastard raised him, but also hates him so, so much.

How Cross feels about XGaster is also related a lot with some trans experiences, as some of us have been abused by our parents, but now we are stuck with mixed feelings on them all the same and that's not something we can just change asap.

Now with the name Cross itself, Cross wasn't the one to come up with it. It actually came from either XFrisk or XChara (perhaps both), who in tandem labeled Cross, well, Cross, out of a sense of cruelty. Cross eventually reclaims this name as his own. Throughout XTale in general, Cross has struggled with his identity and what he feels to how his friends and family see him, so even though his name does have a negative origin, he redefines it for himself. He finally has a word to put to his struggles and the identity he wants to have, not the one his peers forced onto him since as long as he can remember.

This is indicative of the relationship trans people have towards labels, as not all of them are going to fit, and some have negative connotations (slurs) that we ended up reclaiming to take away the power queerphobes have tried to keep over us for hundreds of years. I'm not saying Cross's name is a slur, far from it, but it was first made up to give him grief and at some point he decided "fuck that actually, I'm giving it different meaning".

I think that's all the analysis I have the brains to offer? I might've stretched too far on a few of these or remembered a couple details wrong but you gotta admit dissecting themes like this is fun.

-- Sarco

Transcript: How is Cross trans-coded?

[signanothername]

Have you seen the post from that one user completely infuriated Cross was trans coded because it seemingly "erases the rep of his other experiences" and other various bad takes? Do you have an opinion on the matter? Have a good day!

Don’t really have anything to say that wasn’t already said

So instead I’ll leave you with this

[sparticus2000art]

I would like to say congratulations to cross xtale for coming out as trans.

[skittlesking]

Have a drawing I stayed up to make to express some feelings I've been having

[coquettesalmon]

[wweird-chan9]

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[perfectlyyoungtimetravel]

CROSS IS TRANS CODED CANONICALLY

Decided to draw something today for Cross,I just found out today! LET'S GOOOOO TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ nobody but absolutely NOBODY will be silenced!

Credits: @jakei95

Materials used:Soft pastel crayons and HB-2 pencil

[discreetlycyan]

FOUND OUT AB THIS TODAY HEH! And messed up my first attempt to post about it 👹✅

YAHOO CROSS

[howlsofbloodhounds]

would Killer be trans coded??? I feel like Killer and Cross often parallel each other but I'm not sure...

I feel like Killer can be read as coded in many different ways, such as plural-coded (or something similar, given his canonically implied but unspecified dissociative disorder), alterhuman coded (not feeling like he’s a monster anymore but not human either, species dysphoria), queer and/or trans coded.

Can most definitely been seen as something similar to a RAMCOA survivor as well—a lot of his experiences and trauma seem very very similar.

[ask-codeearasure]

Oh... a part of me fuckin figured this kid was a Republican, or at least a Republican mouthpiece, but I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt at first. But now, get ready for that kid to use Cross being Trans Coded to be one of their reasons for accusing Jakei of being a pedophile next, since that is where red party mouthbreathers always seem to go next with anything transgender related. I'm calling it right now.

If you haven't read my essay of why Trans Coded characters are important, go do so, it comes into play here and why Republicans are constantly attacking them and why characters that aren't Cishet, Male, and White are always called "Political". If not directly, then indirectly under the guise it's going to "groom children" and "confuse them", amongst other false talking points used to demonize the LGBTQIA+ community.

I've always said this, but I'll say it here and now, Republicans LOVE to minimize their accusations and attacks as being "a different opinion" when deep down, they know it's anything BUT.

If you look at the way Republicans are complaining about their families going no-contact with them and uninviting them from holidays, family gatherings, or even just complete exclusion, they always say "It's just a different opinion! They are cutting me off for a different opinion!!!" When they know that's not exactly the case, but they are not going to say what the actual reason is. They use the First Amendment as a weak defense for what they say as "I have the Freedom of Speech!" but don't acknowledge that one's Freedom of Speech DOES NOT MEAN there's no such thing as "Freedom from Consequences".

Let's say it how it is. These people know it's about morals, giving a shit about the people around them (which extends into the state of society as a whole), and ethics.

Republicans refuse to admit they completely lack morals and that lack of morality makes them dangerous. You could stretch it and say they don't have a conscience either, but really, it's clear the problem these people have is outright stupidity, not a complete lack of a little voice in their head telling them the shit they subscribe to perhaps isn't a good idea.

This kid tried to say "Oh, Jakei didn't understand what I meant!" Then proceeded to not clarify what they supposedly meant and then turned around and accused everyone of having Main Character Syndrome.

What else could they have possibly meant when they outright said they believed that Cross being confirmed to be Trans Coded was to get attention from the Trans Community?

If that isn't what you meant...? Then what the fuck else could you have meant?

How else are we supposed to take it???

But that's just it, isn't it?

That WAS what they meant. That WAS how it was supposed to be taken, they just don't like that it makes them look like a complete and total piece of shit. It's almost like actions speak louder than words here.

Republicans hate being seen as a bad person, so they will gaslight you and refuse to ever admit they want to hurt others and get kicks out of it.

And look at what the kid does. They didn't like the fact that everyone fucking tore them a new one, proceeded to try to gaslight everyone by saying that Jakei didn't understand what they meant to try to make her look like the "confused" bad guy, and then accused everyone else of having Main Character Syndrome. This is also a form of projection, putting themself on a pedestal of "everyone got mad, so they must be wrong. Therefore I refuse to change my opinion to keep making the "bad guys" mad!" They are not looking at the reactions of everyone around them as a lens of "perhaps I was wrong, I should change my opinion and improve as a person". They're not actually questioning what's wrong. They just see everyone upset and assume they've got all the power here, because in order to avoid genuinely considering what they've done wrong, everyone else must be wrong. This is a very common mental gymnastic used to avoid change.

This pattern of behavior and responses is what we call DARVO, and it is prevalent in the political and psychological fields. It stands for Deny, Attack, Reverse, Victim, and Offender.

Republicans LOVE using DARVO in their debates, it's their go-to when it comes to attacking left-wing content creators, anyone on the left, or populations of people they just don't like (and always out of intentional ignorance).

They will always use it to ensure that they gain control of the conversation and make themselves look good, mainly to themselves. It's why they make nonsensical whataboutisms and accuse others of extreme crimes despite not having any evidence to back it up.

It's a way to get the actual victims to shut the fuck up so they can continue running their mouth comfortably. With no competition to their views, they can avoid questioning their beliefs and quality of character based off those beliefs.

And what do we have here?

A person who uses Republican Talking Points to demonize transgenderism.

And then now used Cross being Trans Coded as a way to attack Jakei again under the guise her advocating for transgender people has a harmful and/or self-serving ulterior motive.

And then is using DARVO to try to gaslight everyone they can to make themself look like the actual victim, because the poor baby can't handle the justified backlash to their behavior.

By these terms of beliefs and behavior, they are a Republican (perhaps not legitimately but by current definition) who is predictable and will always be predictable because once you know how to recognize and analyze Republican Propaganda, you can expect their every move and what they are always aiming for.

Sorry to make another post on this. This was meant to be a fandom blog, not a politics blog.

-- Ouija

[dagwmeno]

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[somehhuuuhh]

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Cross got top-surgery!! :D

[ummsomethingis1]

My cross contribution before I disappear for a week ^^

[nightmarefandom]

TRANS CODED CROSS TRANS CODED CROSS!!

You are valid💞