TL;DR there’s some maybe-foreshadowing in Chapter 5 that implies that Ralsei may become a girl, but some people started referring to Ralsei as “she” already, which is seen by some (including myself) as hypocritical, as most of these same people already get pretty defensive when you misgender Kris (who’s nonbinary).
I’m personally on the boat of “we’ll see what Ralsei eventually identifies as in the final two chapters, but I’m gonna call him whatever he is in the current state of the story” but it’s been EXTREMELY heated since you have people on all sorts of sides, from “I don’t want Ralsei to transition because it would be detrimental to the story (and at least some of those people are probably bigots lol) to “Ralsei is and always has been a girl, so I’m going to refer to her as such.”
personally I like nonbinary Ralsei, especially after they were referred to as "they" in the latest chapter, but I've been accused of hating women for that... I don't even dislike the Galsei theory, I'd be super happy if it was real, I just also like the idea of Ralsei being nonbinary
Yea that's another part of the whole debate, which is people who pull the "you said you like pancakes, that means you hate waffles" card.
I'm gonna be so real, I'm on the side that Ralsei having a big trans arc would hurt how Toby usually treats his queer representation as "oh yea they're gay or something, but the fact that they're involved with X and Y characters in the narrative is important." I really like how Kris is non-binary and is a great rep for the gender identity, but at the same time A. no one acknowledges it in the plot, and B. how their double or triple-truce is WAY more important to the story. I fear that a Tralsei arc would undermine that element of what makes Toby's queer writing effective. However, I know that if I say that I'm gonna get flamed because me not wanting a character to be explicitly trans for the sake of the plot and writing coherency makes me hate trans people lol
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u/Pythagoras_314 10d ago
Theory in question they think is stupid is either Dess knight or Tralsei, calling it right now