I love undertale and deltarune.
I hate the UTDR fandom.
I think there’s a serious issue with transphobia, non-binary erasure (OR insistence), false allyship, and a need to be ‘right’ instead of being true allies.
I’ve seem that for now a literal decade. People yelling at each other over the gender of fictional characters so much, and the conversation is never about serious respect of non-binary characters. It’s about ‘I am RIGHT’ and ‘this is what makes me more COMFORTABLE’.
But the thing is, one side is convinced they have the moral high ground because ‘IT’S OBJECTIVELY CORRECT THEY ARE NON-BINARY!’
And they’re RIGHT! But not for the reason they think they are! The arguments are NEVER about non-binary erasure. It’s about ‘this is how I SEE them and I am correct!’, and CONSTANTLY in conversations that gets exposed.
And that’s not necessarily wrong! Until you start hiding behind ‘if you don’t agree? You are a BIGOT.’ You are not being an ally. You are making non-binary a fan fiction and pretending you’re doing something righteous. And when you bring this up in this fandom?
You are shouted down. You get hate. There is a dogpile towards people who are saying the way the fandom handles this is HORRID.
We are stuck in 2016. And not calling it out is going to allow it to continue.
Kris is CANONICALLY non-binary because Toby says they are. Not because that’s your headcanon. And if someone else with a different gender identity headcanons them to be different to better reflect their identity? That’s not wrong of them. That’s not them being a ‘bigot’.
It’s them wanting representation. And that’s not wrong either.
And if you read that and purposefully misconstrue it to be ‘SO YOU’RE SAYING CISGENDER PEOPLE CAN ERASE NONBINARY PEOPLE?!’ when that’s clearly not the intent, you are part of the problem.
Be our best impulses. Not our worst.
