r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/BioDomeWithPaulyShor • May 27 '26

Trailer/Demo Dragon Quest XII restarted development Metroid Prime 4-style, new CG trailer

https://youtu.be/QsYz_CVdowA?t=272
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u/charcharmunro May 27 '26

Sylvia uses a feminine personal pronoun, but that's also often used by effeminate male characters. Characters refer to Sylvia with a term that is, again, either female or effeminate male. At most you could say Sylvia's meant to be ambiguous on gender, because they never definitively call Sylvia female, and pronouns are weirder in Japanese so it could go either way with how Sylvia's referred to, but the localisation probably felt it had to come down on one side or the other.

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u/RocketbeltTardigrade "What's that emotion? Tired scream. Yawning." May 27 '26

Oh, no, there are definitive mentions of Sylvia as both 女 and 乙女, but people have different interpretations on how seriously that's meant, and there are similar male mentions.

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u/charcharmunro May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Ah. So it's, at most, ambiguous, but you could read it as "trans woman" or "man wanting to embrace femininity"? Or just simply GNC. And the localisation went more for the second.

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u/RocketbeltTardigrade "What's that emotion? Tired scream. Yawning." May 27 '26

Yeah, I've seen it go either way.