wholetthegodsout
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So we have no confirmation that abby is or isn't trans? My thinking is the game is completely ambiguous. If it hadn't have leaked most would have just assumed that she was a soldier type ugly mannish women that naughty dog put in their game to combat harmful stereotypes (having a female voice actor would support this).
Its my theory that from a writing perspective they would never be overt about the trans person in the game. Because 1.) bringing it up would present all sort of weird plausibility questions.
2.) the whole point of this is normalize trans people in society. If characters made a big point of pointing that abby as Trans it would basically make her more visible as being an abnormal character to be in this setting and also video games in general.
We see how things have worked in the past with harry potter or star wars where someone offhandly reveals a charachter is a secret gay after the film comes out. My guess is the plan was to release the game. Let people assume that Abby was just an ugly mannish chick and then maybe a month later Druckmann would have let slip in the interview that Abby was a trans women.
Cue Polygon and Kotaku articles going "WOW" so progressive! So brave! BIGOTED GAMERS DIDNT EVEN NOTICE THEY WERE PLAYING AS QUEER TRANS WOMAN!!! Buy upcoming DLC about Abby's origins!
This of course would only work in the medium of games where despite modern graphics there still is an uncanny valley effect in which you just assume a female presenting character voiced by a woman is a woman no matter how ugly the character model is.
Its my theory that from a writing perspective they would never be overt about the trans person in the game. Because 1.) bringing it up would present all sort of weird plausibility questions.
2.) the whole point of this is normalize trans people in society. If characters made a big point of pointing that abby as Trans it would basically make her more visible as being an abnormal character to be in this setting and also video games in general.
We see how things have worked in the past with harry potter or star wars where someone offhandly reveals a charachter is a secret gay after the film comes out. My guess is the plan was to release the game. Let people assume that Abby was just an ugly mannish chick and then maybe a month later Druckmann would have let slip in the interview that Abby was a trans women.
Cue Polygon and Kotaku articles going "WOW" so progressive! So brave! BIGOTED GAMERS DIDNT EVEN NOTICE THEY WERE PLAYING AS QUEER TRANS WOMAN!!! Buy upcoming DLC about Abby's origins!
This of course would only work in the medium of games where despite modern graphics there still is an uncanny valley effect in which you just assume a female presenting character voiced by a woman is a woman no matter how ugly the character model is.
