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What about strive attract the troons. Blazeblue and underknight, and meltyblood yes but what about GG attracts them

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Long story short, Testament and Bridget, characters who were originally introduced as male, were suddenly changed to be non-binary and trans-fem respectfully, despite evidence present in the game's original lore. This, of course, led to Tumblr freaks and weirdos from the alphabet crowd joining the game in droves and drown out otherwise normal players who wouldn't have given a shit, had it not been for the new crowd of players who joined to just glaze these two characters. It should be noted that Bridget wasn't announced as trans until UMISHO won EVO the year of his release (convenient). A small thing to note, but there it is.

What made it worse though was that the new troon players would annoy normal players by glazing Bridget ad nauseum, talking about how much they loved the character and making dumbass fan art and making people who still called Bridget and Testament dudes (like most Japanese fans and players) check their privilege and use that opportunity to farm social media credit and clout. This, combined with UMISHO's win at EVO brought in more troon fans who, obviously, were also blatant sex pests who, of course, began to gather in number. Now forums like Dustloop and r/GuiltyGear on Reddit are full of nothing but Bridget glazers, troons trying to use Bridget as a positive example of a trans character, and sexpests who are using the community as a way to find more sexpests.

The reality is that Testament and Bridget getting added to the alphabet crowd is actually more fucked up then people realize. Like it or not, crossdressing and crossplaying is a thing in Japan, and Testament and Bridget were originally made to represent that crowd. Hell, originally, Bridget was supposed to just be a crossdressing bounty hunter living his best life and that was it. But now, ArcSys attempted to please the 1% of people in the world who identify as non-binary and trans for no other reason other than added attention to their new DLC character, while also removing any representation for the very prominent Japanese crossdressing community. And it's pretty much been downhill ever since.
 
I couldn't really care less about either two characters or whatever pronouns they wanna use now, but I remember how fucking annoying it was to just see CONSTANT Bridget glazing everywhere you fucking went. That made me absolutely hate the character, and the fact all of the fans are weird and disgusting.
 
And (IMO) what makes it worse is neither character was very interesting to begin with... And still isn't.
Take Bridget's gender and story away and what you have is a very mid rushdown character with a pretty lame gimmick. And Testament is just a quasi-zoning character whose gimmick is a mild explosion that kind of locks you down in pressure. But other than that, both characters are boring in story and boring in-game. Troons gassed these characters up for no reason.
 
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IMO Bridget is a terrible example of a positive trans character. Because they changed the lore, Bridget is now a person who’s been groomed by the village to think of themselves as a female rather than a male or as some people the community like to speculate it’s all in their head, which makes it even worse.
Wasn't the fat guy in the roster also the one that pushed him over the edge of trooning out too, the jokes write themselves
 
IMO Bridget is a terrible example of a positive trans character. Because they changed the lore, Bridget is now a person who’s been groomed by the village to think of themselves as a female rather than a male or as some people the community like to speculate it’s all in their head, which makes it even worse.
This. I feel like if they wanted trans rep they should've made a totally new character instead of retconning an old one in a way that (still) makes no sense to me
 
Just got recommended Big Yellow's latest video after not seeing anything he's posted in months. Look at this guy.
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Tranny shit has done completely irreparable damage to the autism community.
i stopped watching his videos when he started painting his fingernails. the signs were there a long time ago, sad to see how far gone he is now.
 
Just got recommended Big Yellow's latest video after not seeing anything he's posted in months. Look at this guy.
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Tranny shit has done completely irreparable damage to the autism community.
What’s with sissy’s and trannies not wearing shirts that fit properly. That shirt is falling off his shoulders. If you have a weird proportional body go by compression shirts, like the rest of us autistic people.
 
I mostly agree on Bridget, but disagree on Testament, They already were androgynous to start with AND according to the lore, they injected themselves with Gear-Cells to become a Gear, which at least gives a reason (shoddy as it can be) for why they're NB.

Bridget, tho? No frigging excuse for the retcon. And Daisuke comes off as VERY dishonest with all of this "but I always wanted Bridget to be a trans girl" BS he supposedly said; it would've ben much better to keep Bridget as a girlish boy and then specifically create a trans chara to offer contrast with him and Testament. Even Eiichiro Oda could do that (re: the trans woman Kikunojo and her crossdresing brother Izou), ffs.
 
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Hate to admit it but imo Bridget being a tranny would be way more charming if he still looked like this
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But that ruins the "girl potion" fantasy
EDIT: Same with testament actually
 
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Chun and Ken were a given, and I like that Mr. Big is coming back, but why the fuck do I have to pay money for fucking Andy and Joe?
I think they were a given, should have been second season or later though.
Season one dlc is included with the game BTW if you pre order.
I would have liked to see one more new face & say a legacy like Mary or Bash.
Maybe finally bring back Rick S.
 
I think they were a given, should have been second season or later though.
Season one dlc is included with the game BTW if you pre order.
I would have liked to see one more new face & say a legacy like Mary or Bash.
Maybe finally bring back Rick S.
If that's the case, then that's not all bad.

Me personally, I want my boy Franco Bash to come back, or maybe Hokutomaru and Freeman.
 
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