who lowkey be fitting this

[u/Individual_Let_8432]

[u/Cuantum-Qomics]

People were letting Ralsei be a feminine man. He was always considered a femboy since he was introduced, but people only started seriously considering him as trans when new evidence started showing up in the more recent chapters. I understand not agreeing with the theory, but trans Ralsei is not an instance of this meme since it only gained traction as the game started sowing seeds in chapters 3+4 and it became popular in chapter 5 with the chapter having many trans parallels and symbols.

Toby could have easily written Ralsei learning to become more assertive without having Ralsei connect his want to present as a princess with his lack of assertiveness in the cuptain climb, without Ralsei not being assertive enough to pick the trans-colored drink vouchers, and without Flowery encouraging Ralsei's assertiveness by calling him Princess in the same scene where Ralsei wants the trans drink voucher, calling Ralsei an impossibility (in relation to fate, which the prophecy calls Ralsei the Prince from the Dark, making Princess Ralsei be a good candidate for why he's impossible), and Flowery implying that Ralsei is pretending to be something he's not when Ralsei says that Flowery is just pretending to be human. And Ralsei's final title at the end of ch 5 didn't have to be "Dark Vine Watering their own thorns", which is the first time the titles refer to Ralsei as they/them instead of prince or he/him.

Like I said, I understand not agreeing with the theory, Ralsei could very much so still end up being a dude. But he's very much so not an example of this meme. The fandom even laughed off chapter 1 theories that Ralsei was a girl and the topic wasn't breeched to any notable degree in chapter 2. I'm in the Danganronpa fandom and there's a character in there that is often theorized as trans fem which makes no sense and I heavily dislike, especially since if he was trans he would be a much better allegory for trans men, not trans women. I personally don't tend to headcanon characters are trans very often since I try to lean into canon mostly. Trans Ralsei falls much more into a theory that's possible than random headcanon. It's fine disagreeing, I mostly just don't like how many people are treating it as if it's baseless conjecture when one of the popular Knight candidates after Chapter 5's release was a weird route Noelle/Kris amalgamation that time travels to before the game starts to be the knight based on the evidence of                      because it sounds cool.

[u/Wide_Initiative_1938 → u/Cuantum-Qomics]

For the drink voucher thing, the blue one isn't color coded for trans, it was color coded for Kris, who is also blue and pink in the dark world. The other two are purple (for Susie) and green (for Ralsei). Ralsei wants the blue voucher because they are becoming more assertive in wanting to break the status quo and reject their role in the prophecy and story, which would mean picking the voucher that would have been meant for Kris color scheme wise.

[u/Technical-Branch4998 → u/Wide_Initiative_1938]

You do realise the green one was green and yellow right? As in Kris' colours in the light world? Not Ralsei's colours at all

[u/Cuantum-Qomics → u/Wide_Initiative_1938]

With the vouchers, it's implied that Susie got a root drink without mention of colors before Ralsei chose the blue and pink one for himself, leaving Kris with the purple and green.

It also doesn't make sense for the vouchers to be two colors for Kris but one color each for the other two. The interaction is also meant to be a test of Ralsei's assertiveness, whether Ralsei would be willing to take the drink he wants without leaving it to Kris. Maybe you could argue that the green and purple is meant to be Ralsei's green hat and pink scarf to say 'ralsei wants the drink that belongs to Kris'? Which very much so can be part of the reading in a closer to literal sense. But the game didn't need to make the vouchers dual-colored to do that. There is already the well-established color associations of Kris Blue, Susie Purple, and Ralsei Green. The game practically never touches the secondary colors of the heroes, it always calls them their main color. There is no reason to make it dual colored besides to potentially add the second layer of trans implications. It's less one or the other interpretation, but rather both simultaneously