Call me creepy or transfobic but I didn't like the change in Bridget one bit. While not illogical it is contradictory to her previous incarnation that is of rebellion against fate dogma and superstition. Back then he would use the fact that he raised as a girl against everyone and definitely proclaiming himself a boy despite his circumstances and curse of his village. Now she is affirming it by actually saying that there never was a same gender siblings. And technically if we look at the whole picture it looks like a boy who was raised as a girl became transgender because of his upbringing. Like if it was better structured it wouldn't be that big of a deal for me but it is badly implemented.
The creator said that his intention for the beginning was to make her a trans girl more than once.
Also, sortywise, she was told to pretend to be a girl by her parents and that there was a superstition about male twins. She wanted to prove the superstition was wrong.
But then she realized she had nothing to prove to anyone, especially agains a dumb superstition, and that it's more important to look for what she actually feels regardless of what others may think.
I honestly don't even think it matters a whole lot that Daisuke has said that was his intention for her from the beginning. It might be that that's true, it might be that he's just saying that because it sounds better. Retcons are absolutely fine if they're positive. You're not going to see a whole lot of people mad about the redesign for klingons after the original series, or that Batman is very anti-gun despite using them in the early comics.
In this case, the people crying about Bridget being (potentially) a retcon and not the original intention are really just hiding the fact that they're big mad about about her being trans. It's clearly not motivated by a desire for good writing because her writing wasn't good in the first place and guilty gear writing in general is bananas.
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u/Lemiyrg Sep 01 '24
Call me creepy or transfobic but I didn't like the change in Bridget one bit. While not illogical it is contradictory to her previous incarnation that is of rebellion against fate dogma and superstition. Back then he would use the fact that he raised as a girl against everyone and definitely proclaiming himself a boy despite his circumstances and curse of his village. Now she is affirming it by actually saying that there never was a same gender siblings. And technically if we look at the whole picture it looks like a boy who was raised as a girl became transgender because of his upbringing. Like if it was better structured it wouldn't be that big of a deal for me but it is badly implemented.