r/hatethissmug • u/ProbodobodyneInc Hate.. let me tell you how much I've come to hate.. • Jul 10 '26

Gaming I hate Trans Ralsei Theory

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Even if we ignore the numerous times he has been referred to as he/him, a boy, a guy, a dude, a prince, we must also realize that just because he isn't traditionally masculine, he isn't transmasc (or transfem)

There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy, and there is no Princess from the Dark.

'Oh but Deltarune is all about breaking free from fate' I can hear exactly two of you say in your heads (I can read your mind,) I know one thing, and it's that I can't break free from the fate of going through Undertale 2 and finding that both routes lead to the same goddamn ending of Gaster Friend Inside Me Penumbra Phantasm Big Shot World Revolving Jarona Shadow Crystal Always Bet On Papyrus Knight.

ZHOTAN!

(Also, I'm not transphobic, before you try to spew that label onto me)

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u/FreeSpeechEnjoyer Jul 10 '26

This whole theory pisses me off because it's basically just "Girls like girly thing, boys like boyish things"(but in a woke way)

We really swung around completely, when we only had 1 chapter the least woke people were coping that ralsie was a girl somehow, now it's the other side

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u/No_Interview_6406 Jul 10 '26

"Yeah guys break gender norms!! Susie is a tomboy!! those oh wait, ralsei is shown to even be SLIGHTLY feminine??? yeaaah thats trans for sureeee"

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u/NotTheFirstVexizz Jul 10 '26

I would guess this is also somewhat a "woman are wonderful" effect, where consciously or not people believe the optimal form a character could reach is being a woman, and thus not a man. Susie being a trans man would be a downgrade, Ralsei being a trans woman would be an upgrade. These perspectives are definitely not extremely transphobic.

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u/Caseyisawsome Jul 10 '26

They are, however, extremely misandristic. And given that such a thing includes drastically more of the population, and still includes trans men who under this lens 'downgraded' themselves, it's arguably worse.

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u/NotTheFirstVexizz Jul 10 '26

This can also probably be applied to Kris and how plenty of people see nonbinary as "woman+", and so assuming Kris' AGAB is male would mean that Kris 'evolved' by becoming further away from manhood and closer to womanhood.

And all of this really poisons discourse because it feeds vocal queerphobes, it makes all criticism deflectable by people with silent often internalized queerphobia claiming you arguing against is vocal queerphobia, and there are probably even more people that are just confused and aren't really deserving of blame but might still feed into the issue, and this is all just a bunch of meaningless fandom discourse anyway but still has some if minor impact on reality, and it's like that one image of everyone in a screaming match and then looking at the camera and going "oh god we're all miserable".