The game makes it rather clear that treating Mason as a girl and pressuring him in such manner is something (only) an asshole Guy would do, as part of the "dark path". So yes, it's an option to "act wrong" just like it's possible for Guy to act wrong, going as far as rape, towards other LIs in the game.
I'll post on it just once, and not reply to it again so as not to clutter the topic. If anyone disagrees, they disagree - no need to start a campaign on it.
That's a bit of a stretch, but I can see *someone* out there wanting to roleplay it that way in their head. Personally, I tend to stick to the code in our genes and how the characters are presented - Guy is a male, Mason a female. But roleplaying the MC I decided to keep it genomic in the bedroom where Mason is a female, and let Mason be a male in public out of respect. I don't think that is necessarily a dark path per-se, grey at worst and accurate at best. I guess it depends on personal mores and whether people self-insert themselves or their preferences into Guy.
yep, exactly
I wonder if this is a thing where the queer movement has progressed a little further in America than it has in Argentina, and so certain gender expressions that might be viewed as more progressive here, seem almost regressive there. In any event, I pretty clearly laid out how Mason feels about his own gender presentation during the fitting room event with Guy, so I'll let the work speak for itself.
I'm trying to get an alpha out before the month ends. But I contracted the flu over the holidays, and it had me all fucked up for three days, during which I got basically no work done. So, I'm kinda trying to play catch-up now that I'm not laying in bed and moaning.
Feels to me that Mason is still very much figuring that out. I figure you gave the pronoun choices to let the players be comfortable in their version of the playthrough but some choices makes him seems confused still. For instance if you use female pronouns during intimacy he seems to respond well enough even on the nicer route. Maybe I'm reading too much into it though.
Eh....Neon has been sick, and has a habbit of underestimating the quantity of work remaining. I've been saying January 5th for a while, mostly as a joke, but I wouldn't be surprised if I was right.
Gender is not sexuality, and Mason is quite enthusiastic when Guy treats him well. Not sure how you could see that as insulting, and certainly not as rape. And this is a game where ACTUAL rape is on the table, so the difference is pretty clear.
I've had January 5th in the betting pool for a couple weeks now!
You are, it's just a case of "why did you climb the mountain ? because it was there".
I get where you're coming from, but truth is, people are weird and diverse in just about every way you can imagine. Female-to-male (FTM) trans might have a common presentation in the LGBT community or in media, but they can present in many different ways that you might not expect or see very often, and their sexual orientation is a separate issue entirely. Mason seems to be a bisexual femboy, or someone that's still figuring things out.no no, I worded it bad, my english sucks, sorry
I'll try to explain myself better: based just on the 2 trans guys I know -meaning born girls that feel themselves male, one of them a friend of mine-, and a trans woman -born male- I do not know well, they are basically like this:
(may not be an example of ALL of them, obviously)
trans guys: both of them are masculine in traits, both really close to their dads (one helps me put with electric stuff which learned from his dad), none use make up at all; both are very open and funny once they like you (I'm a tall metalhead, for some reason one of them see me like an older brother and imitates me which is hilarious, like once I was standing cross armed with a boot on a step, look at the side and she/he was in the same position but half my height); for them to think about sex with a guy is as absurd as to is to any of us straight guys; both get more girls than me...
basically cool blokes who don't have a penis but don't need one to make girls happy, nowhere near to prostitution with men as clients (in these kind of games a trans guy could be the cool sidekicks of MC, to be a LI is insulting for them)
trans women: femenine in trait, close to their mothers, use women' make up/dress etc, mostly shy and low profile -unless they are partying-; the one I know is a well paid artist, but I heard is common for the ones with economic problems to prostitute themselves
Mason is written and modeled as a trans woman instead of trans guy (I think in one scene is even trying women's thights-??-), may it be possibly on purpose as a veiled gay fantasy for men? I don't know
Anyways, other people can play it very differently, especially if you go Mason's feminine route.You can assault everyone in the game, it's just harmless fantasy.
Mason responds "well enough" to Guy misgendering him because he's been on streets sucking dicks long enough that he knows better than rock the boat with his current benefactor just to feel good about his gender identity being respected. Doesn't mean it's something that he internally just shrugs off and is like whatever and doesn't mind at all.
Ugh. I was hoping to finally see some Season 2 progress (beyond what's been released) in the alpha before the end of my holidays. Went up to $15 since it was suppose to come out the 25th but things changed and happen. C'est la vie.
Please don't key in on one part of my post. I am specifically talking about how the choices in game make the character come across that way.
I have offered alternative explanation to the part which you cited as reason you believe Mason to be "still confused". If you didn't want me to address it specifically you should've provided more than one case to support your point.
Didn't Ghost also say that Mason is more willing to go along with how the mc treats him until he gains the confidence to set boundaries?
looked at the pictures in the folder, there a couple where si does a bj and gets photographed with the phone, not present in the rape/goodbye route, so i thought maybe there is a mild version
Yes, I have tried all the Mason routes (best to my knowledge) and as a whole think the character is inconsistent enough to come off as confused. I didn't want to recite every instance or thought that I needed to.
