Could anyone tell me what the “misgendering Mason” path leads to? Like, is it just some minor changes to dialogue, or is it a full-blown toxic relationship where you force him back into assuming a female identity?
Too soon to say but I'd argue it's the path where you exploit his situation similar to making Nicki humiliate herself for the money, holding Ashe's job over her head, and generally the darker path if you don't use the patch.
It seems too me like in order to survive after Mason was kicked out he turned to servicing guys and they preferred to misgender him or I just read his reaction to the mc wanting to call him a girl during sex wrong. (if you misgender him then.)
Now I'm curious how far you can go with the whole misgendering thing. Like you can misgender him during the sex but be supportive and caring about his gender afterwards. Will you be able to be a bit mean and humiliating about his gender during sex with him as long as you show that you truly support him? I can already see a patch route that can lead to him bailing if you are completely abusive towards him like if you try to force him to id as a woman.
This is one of the reasons I'm so interested to see how things play out for him. I can see the MC just helping him out as a friend, starting a sweet romance, a sweet romance that adds a bit of non serious gender humiliation, being an exploitative asshole who doesn't care about his gender or a transphobic piece of shit who thinks he has to "fix her".(this is where I think the patch will go and what would guarantee he leaves the mc.)