I can see where people are coming from with comments critical about my intentions regarding TiNi. Since it is clear that TiNi being an ass here is giving people a bad impression of 'trans' representation without context... Just about all Nidokings are asses in this universe to fit with their canonically short temper. TiNi behaving like an ass here is just how TiNi is. Beheeyem didn't make TiNi a jackass. TiNi's always been one. He's mellowed out over the years, but old habits die hard. You'll see an example of this in a sidecomic I have for Corrosion shortly before he joined the arena. However, showing him acting like an ass in his younger days or towards his wife didn't fit in the timeline of the main comic. How we see him treating Maggie is almost how he would treat her normally. The difference then is that he would've let things go after Maggie talks back. That's a canon Nidoking/Nidoqueen dynamic. Nidoking easily angered, Nidoqueen calms him down. TiNi acts like an ass, Maggie sets him straight even if TiNi bitches about nothing for five minutes straight. She's used to it. Beheeyem's tampering may have affected this dynamic. Nidoking nature/behavior is mentioned in a couple of future pages; I'm addressing it now since knowing this won't affect the plot much.
Also I see your side of how peeps feel. Also even if there are some asshole trans peeps out there doesn't represent all of the trans out there. The other trans in your story are mellow chill peeps. Tini is just an asshole.
Uh oh. Also I see your side of how peeps feel. Also even if there are some asshole trans peeps out
people critizing you for bad "trans representation" need to realize that in real life trans people can still be assholes, heck i am trans and i can be quite the asshole. And i have met trans people that act like TiNi, they use their transness to try and shield themselves from any form of critique no matter if it was even related to them being trans (not just trans people btw, plenty of other LGBTQ+ people i've met that are like that). It's always so annoying to meet people like that cause in the end it just harms the movement and acceptance cause it gives the bigots excuses to point at how LGBTQ+ people can be irrational and demand all kinds of bonuses and special treatment just for existing. Anyways, bit of a tangent and rant, sorry, point being, as a MtF trans person i just wanted to say i've really enjoyed the comic so far am interested where you're gonna take it and will save any comment on trans representation untill the comic and story is finished, since i know from reading your other ones you carefully build things up and the end conclusion is what matters.
people critizing you for bad "trans representation" need to realize that in real life trans people c
By representing trans people as having human emotions and issues it humanises them to not be something different but normal, to be on the same "team" but denounce any negative portrayal only means they don't see trans people as human, how ironic.
By representing trans people as having human emotions and issues it humanises them to not be somethi
Honestly, I like it that this comic is not simply being a yes man for Trans. Becoming Trans is a important and potentially life changing decision and not necessarily for the better. I enjoy the different perspective. I enjoy seeing problems with misinformation and pressure, I enjoy this comic. And I don't think it is a bad representation, it is just a representation of the bad side of *some* trans people which we might not want to exist, but we shouldn't turn a blind eye to.
In truth, I don't know if TiNi is actually trans, if it was something he repressed for a long time, or if this was just the beheeyem's fault. In fact, TiNi probably learned a lot more about himself but now needs to come to terms with it. The question is, what do we want? Do we want to be happy, like you used to be, or are you dedicated to becoming someone else, possibly loosing everything you have and tredge through hard times until you can actually find happiness as the new you. It is a hard choice. And one that everyone has to make themselves. Also, the mind is a tricky thing. You might say "this only exists in your head" but isn't that true for everything? All our thoughts, feelings and memories are in our head. That doesn't mean they are worthless. But, what does it mean then to have your head manipulated? Does that make your feelings fake, or does that create true, but different feelings? I feel those are almost impossible to answer questions.
I am not trans myself, but I know trans people and they told me how they feel wrong in their own body and how it hurts to be misgendered. And I kind of could relate, because someone *did* call me by the wrong gender once, and it felt bad for me as well. But there is also another thing. When learning about Trans people, I began questioning myself. What about me? Am I really a male? There are things I like that would be stereotypically female things and I dislike some stereotypical male things. Plus, I do have a preference for m/m porn. And that confused me for some time. Now I know that I feel good with the gender I am born with, I merely have no respect for traditional stereotypes. I like men, but I wouldn't want to be female. And with that, I see some parallels to TiNi. They focused on irrelevant things, like enjoying being a bottom, liking to care about their daughter and htheir color as reasons why they might be female. But I'd say none of that makes him less male than before. So, since I came to the conclusion about myself that I am not transgender, I worry about TiNi possibly being in the same situation. So it hurt seing him throw away everything. And I actually panicked a bit when physical gender change was brought up and he was pushed towards doing it, since that might end up creating the primary problem of transgender. Being in the wrong body. Just here it would not be being born in the wrong body, but having decided for a wrong body.
tldr: Self discovering your own identity and gender identity is hard, and you shouldn't rush it or let yourself be manipulated during it. But such bad things happen, and it would be unwise to pretend this wouldn't exist.
Honestly, I like it that this comic is not simply being a yes man for Trans. Becoming Trans is a imp
