#b-7

[blueskksyy]

I tried to redesign b-7. this got a little tiring

[kamatronic]

Hey uh, FNaF fans? Can we talk about the fact that there's an uncomfortably transphobic story in one of the FNaF books for a moment? CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THE TOPICS AHEAD: TRANSPHOBIA, S*ICIDE, BODY DYSMORPHIA, OTHER RELATED TOPICS.

* * * I had put off reading B-7 for a number of reasons; getting a bad vibe enough from the preview, hearing the plot secondhand and fearing for the worst, my total disinterest with the FNaF books at the time, etc. I avoided picking it up for so long that the writer of the book replied to someone inquiring about the story's nature, clarifying that none of what people were reading into it was intentional. As someone who's finally sat down and read the story... I cannot fathom how there was zero negative intentions behind this book, whether consciously made or not. I struggle to think of even the most vile bigot coming up with something that even comes close to cutting as deep as this story did. I'm normally unfazed by horror, I'm a huge sucker for it. This was something different, this is something that made me sick in a way that no piece of media had made me feel before. B-7 tries to be a horror story. And to the untrained eye, it may read as that. If you really severed yourself from the time period the book was released in, and ignored any potential messaging, it might be a quite good one at that. But that is not what B-7 is. This is a story about a boy who's identity is something other than what he is born as. He's made fun of in class for being different, even pulled to a private school where he's still mocked. This boy has his father leave, and his mother continue to "enable" him, before taking her own life when he reaches adulthood. The boy, now an adult realizes that his body is not congruent with his identity, and seeks out medical assistance to look more like what he internally identifies as. A hack doctor provides him with various "mutilating" surgeries, with it becoming harder for him to even function. One day he finally looks into the mirror, and sees himself as a "freak". The story ends with him ending his life, with his last moments being thankful that he is what he was born as, not what his identity is. * * * As someone who's not only a trans woman, but has dealt with various other identity-related issues, this story made me ill. It genuinely ruined my night after reading it and I still don't feel like I have recovered. Just describing the plot doesn't really do the story justice in how sickeningly targeted it feels. Because really, what else am I meant to take away from some of the lines in this book? Examples:

Some of this language, particularly how Billy sees himself as a "failed man" are exact to the attacks that are often levied at trans women. I'm also shocked that the second example made it in without anyone realizing the potential parallels that a story like this could have to real people and their experiences. There are numerous other elements to the story that could also be seen as narrativizations of negative ideas about trans people, such as absent parents, parents and psychologists who "enabled" their "delusions", as well as the media they watched giving them the idea that they're not what they're born as. In the story Billy comes off as a character that's only a few steps removed from being just a checklist of bad stereotypes. To rub salt into the wound, the story later has a character Billy meets on a forum that also sees herself differently to how her body actually is. This character could've easily been trans, to at the bare minimum depict that "oh, Billy is insane, but look here's a trans person that's normal". But no, this character has a surprisingly "normal" and far more common incongruence with her appearance, to a point that it's weird he even met her on a site that's for "people who see themselves differently from their actual bodies". The FNaF books are shockingly empty of any queer representation, and that's fine, I really don't have too much of an issue with some media not representing me personally. But to write a story like this and not even once think of how it could potentially relate to the trans experience is appalling. * * * Normally, I don't think pieces of media can be "harmful" to people. I try to be as open and free about people's artistic expressions as I can possibly be, even if I hate some of what people out there create. This however, is so far removed from my usual standpoint. To release this to a fandom that is predominantly occupied by queer artists and creators is already bad enough, at that point I'd just see it as a bit gross and tasteless. But this is beyond that, this is a book that is marketed towards kids. It'll appear at Scholastic Book Fairs, it has been glossed over by hundreds of younger, unaware fans at this point. What lessons are kids meant to take away from this book? That if you have any sort of identity that's not in line with the way you were born, you'll just end up mutilating and eventually killing yourself, greatful in those last moments to still be what you were born as? Scott, Andrea, Scholastic and whoever else was involved with the release of this really need to take a step back and realize that putting stories out like this for a younger audience is not okay, and can actually damage those who are already suffering enough.

[freddy-fazbears-wonderland]

I just (almost) read the entirety of Happs and I see why people would consider it transphobic.

It just reeks of a trans story written by a transphobe.

Now, keep in mind that I am not a trans person myself. However, I noticed certain things you'll often find in transphobic stories.

And expect me to ramble. A lot.

Also, keep in mind that this is my interpretation of this story. This is what I got out of it.

Trigger warning because I will be talking about transphobia and suicide will be mentioned.

One of the first things I noticed is that it focuses a lot more on how it affects the people around the character as opposed to the character itself.

I'm guessing this is to guilt people who are trans or at the very least questioning their gender into not exploring their identity because the people around them might not accept it.

But to me, nothing is more selfish than expecting someone to fit the idea of them you have in your head. If anything, keeping these people around more often than not causes harm because while there may be genuine concern, they also tend to care a lot more about their own feelings and how it affects them as apposed to how you feel and how it affects you.

Hell, this isn't even an experience unique to trans or queer people. Even cishet folks have gone through the experience of finding themselves only for the people around them to not accept it and try to make them feel bad for changing.

In this story, Billy gets made fun of (though he doesn't care), his father leaves him because he can't have a normal son, and it takes a toll on his mother physically, emotionally and mentally until she ends her own life when he comes of age. There's probably more examples I didn’t list.

Another thing these kinds of stories tend to use is having said character transition into something inhuman, very like insinuating that if we this is what will happen when we become more accepting of people who simply want to change their gender identity. And that's bad because... *checks notes* it's weird.

Look, while I wouldn't call myself a radqueer, I tend not to give a shit about a person's identity a lot of the time.

Anyways, a very blatant example of this in media is in South Park. In the same episode where Mr. Garrison transitions into a woman, we get Kyle transitioning into a tall black boy in order to play basketball, and eventually, his dad transitions into into a dolphin because he always wanted to be a dolphin.

Of course, this doesn't work out for any of them because they're not really what they transitioned into. But Mr. Garrison keeps identifying as a woman for a while because they used his balls to make Kyle's kneecaps, and they exploded after he makes a slamdunk (or at the very least jumps).

While B-7 isn't as blatant as that South Park episode, I couldn't help but notice it as I read further and further. Especially when they start insinuating that he is mentally ill and needs to be sent to a ward.

The final point I will bring up which probably does ties into the last one has to do with trans surgeries.

As someone who used to be an anti-sjw, I know firsthand how transphobes try to make trans surgeries out to be horrible when it's really no different from any other surgery when you really think about it. Well, maybe aside from regulations, but that's due to a society that's still not accepting of trans people as opposed to the problem with the surgeries themselves.

They will go on about how irreversible it is and how it may lead to complications. But like I said before, this isn't unique to trans surgeries.

For example, choosing to donate your kidney is irreversible, and there will be complications, especially with the kidney you have left having to work overtime.

Hell, even the person you gave your kidney to is gonna deal with stuff because your kidney will still function like your kidney even if their body accepts it.

But anyway, Billy eventually decides to have his limbs cut off and replaced with prosthetics to be more like an animatronic. While he is questioned about this decision, he does ultimately get what he wants.

If only it was that easy for trans people irl... But from what I gather from trans people who have gone under the knife, they have fight tooth and nail to medically transition. Not to mention, the lack of regulations makes them more likely to run into complications.

The last thing I wanna go over is how Billy feels more like he wants to be a robot than an animatronic?

This has nothing to do with anything else. I just wanna ramble

Sure, animatronics are still a type of robot. But they tend to be used for entertainment purposes like portraying characters in film, games, and attractions.

The animatronics in FNaF do fit this definition. Regardless of whatever funky shit they have going on, they are still built as characters made to entertain people.

So, if they really wanted to sell us that Billy wanted to be an animatronic, it would make more sense for him to want to find a way to entertain people.

I feel like the plot point with him forgetting how to feel also doesn't make sense?

Because especially with this being tied to Security Breach, we know that the animatronics are fully sentient beings. But even if they weren't, they're still programmed to act like them.

I think it'd make a lot more sense for Billy to slowly turn into his Freddy Fazbear OC and start acting more and more like a fictional character.

Which reeks of one of the writers clearly not being familiar enough with FNaF but I guess this could also be another piece of transphobia since an argument transphobes like to use is that trans people will never truly understand what its like to be the gender they want to be.

I've wasted enough energy on this, so I'll end it here. Thanks for listening to my ramble if you even bothered. As you could probably tell, this is my least favorite story in any fnaf book.

[theballadofmars]

I'm reading Tales from the Piazzaplex because the stories are canon and it was what I was expecting until I READ B-7 WTF!!? I was NOT prepared to read a story about a kid with ptsd (and probably autism) having the worst defense mechanism ever, and now I don't know what to do.

Like ok fine Help Wanted had its horror and the epilogue from the first book is pure gore but B-7 is psicologychal horror with no supernatural / high tech elements and it hit me more than I expected.

[security-alert-woo-woo-woo-woo]

I'm listening to an audiobook of B-7 from Happs and like I'm obsessed with whatever dynamic Billy and Maliah have going on and I'm already heartbroken at whatever horrible fate is going to befall them. Like you can't jus hand me this adorable couple and then immediately tear it away from me please-

[bigglesworld]

Douglas B-7,  Y1B-7.  It was the first US monoplane given the B- 'bomber' designation. First flew in 1931

[kineticpenguin]

b-7 replied to your post “The Starship Troopers movie is every bit as bad as being anti-fascism...”

So what's the bottom line? Let's censor out of existence a movie because some SJW didn't like the imaginary flaws in the plot?

What. No, that’s absolutely insane, and I genuinely wonder how you would come to that conclusion from anything in that thread.

The bottom line is that satire and critique from within a medium is actually really hard. These are two examples of media that failed to work as intended largely for similar reasons.

Starship Troopers’ equivalent would be like “war makes you a callous monster” with the dude going “haha disable his hand! I Would Like To Know More!”

[mandatownik]

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