Since first playing Silksong, I've been pretty certain somebody on Team Cherry was either a woman or raised as one.
I wasn't sure who, nor did I particularly care for those details, and I certainly didn't speculate publicly. That's their business. But I was fairly sure there was a woman deeply involved with the game's creation.
Because while queerness and gender fuckery has always been built into the core of these games, Silksong specifically is, among other things, a game about mothers and daughters and complex female relationships. And while there are talented cis male authors who write some fantastic female characters, Silksong presents the exquisite, multifaceted grief of female identity with a nuance that can only come from the intimate knowledge of lived experience.
Anyways, congratulations to Ms. Jasmine Vine. May she be celebrated in the communities her work helped create.
