This was me as a kid. I always played boy characters when given the option, and video games didn’t exactly feature a lot of female protagonists.
When I played the original Resident Evil 2, when I was 12, that changed though. I originally played the Claire A story, and while being Claire was neat, I was 12 and being a cool girl who rides Motorcycles wasn’t exactly a super legible experience to me.
And then Sherry got introduced, and I was hooked. I was a very shy, quiet kid, who was easily scared. So the introduction of this scared little girl into the story was VERY legible to me. And when you’re tasked with playing as her, as bad mechanically as those segments were, I was a mess! I wanted to be her so damn bad!
Discovering my transness was a long process but that was one of the big early steps I took in starting to figure this shit out
This was me as a kid. I always played boy characters when given the option, and video games didn’t exactly feature a lot of female protagonists.
When I played the original Resident Evil 2, when I was 12, that changed though. I originally played the Claire A story, and while being Claire was neat, I was 12 and being a cool girl who rides Motorcycles wasn’t exactly a super legible experience to me.
And then Sherry got introduced, and I was hooked. I was a very shy, quiet kid, who was easily scared. So the introduction of this scared little girl into the story was VERY legible to me. And when you’re tasked with playing as her, as bad mechanically as those segments were, I was a mess! I wanted to be her so damn bad!
Discovering my transness was a long process but that was one of the big early steps I took in starting to figure this shit out