anyone returning to this post or just finding it, look at the flower on the right. then look up "red spider lily symbolism". you'll be really happy about the very positive, very wonderful, and very kindhearted symbolism it has.
What's bad about the writing? Every person has their personal path they either take or have to go through involuntarily. If I'm not wrong she was forced to be a girl, she fought against it in spite to those who forced her to be that way, later in life she realizes that she has pushed her true identity behind walls she tried to build around herself.
She wasn't "forced to be a girl" she was just told by her parents to act like one around other people so she wouldn't be sacrificed for being a bad omen. They never actually treated her like she wasn't a boy. She was perfectly fine living that way until she realized how much it was hurting her parents and anyone else in the same situation, so she resolved to prove that she could bring wealth to the village despite being a boy.
She succeeded at that and lived openly as a boy until she decided she didn't actually want to live that way. Being a boy only mattered for dispelling the village's superstitions around same sex twins, anyway, it was never actually what she wanted. It's a perfectly reasonable way to take the character.
Now, I will admit there are Bridget related plot points from the previous games that would have been nice to get an update on, and Bridget's Strive appearance does feel a bit hasty and haphazard in its implementation. That doesn't change that most of the people that cry about "bad writing" are just mad that she's technically not a femboy anymore, and with how they froth at the mouth over it its really hard to believe it's not rooted in some level of transphobia when the only thing that changed was which pronouns the character uses and nothing actually established that anything about her body has changed.
Also, like... sometimes people's feelings change with time? If that weren't the case, no one would ever be closeted. You can insist that you're a Manly Masculine Dude Guy for years, and then go through changes in environment and circumstance and realize that, hey, maybe I'd be happier if I tried something else. Not because you were wrong before, or lying, but because you felt one way in one situation, and feel another now that you're in a different situation.
Also, like... sometimes people's feelings change with time? If that weren't the case, no one would ever be closeted. You can insist that you're a Manly Masculine Dude Guy for years, and then go through changes in environment and circumstance and realize that, hey, maybe I'd be happier if I tried something else. Not because you were wrong before, or lying, but because you felt one way in one situation, and feel another now that you're in a different situation.
Incredibly ironic that what made Bridget a fairly realistic depiction of many trans people (she didnt come out the womb knowing flat out, she lived parts of her life as something else, she came to a realization later in life) is what has people kicking and screaming and yelling BAD WRITING THO. That's a very realistic life story for many people, that one would know if they talked to like, two different trans people in their life maybe (do not talk to rl trans people if you're freaking out over Bridget Guilty Gear's pronouns).
She wasn't "forced to be a girl" she was just told by her parents to act like one around other people so she wouldn't be sacrificed for being a bad omen. They never actually treated her like she wasn't a boy. She was perfectly fine living that way until she realized how much it was hurting her parents and anyone else in the same situation, so she resolved to prove that she could bring wealth to the village despite being a boy.
She succeeded at that and lived openly as a boy until she decided she didn't actually want to live that way. Being a boy only mattered for dispelling the village's superstitions around same sex twins, anyway, it was never actually what she wanted. It's a perfectly reasonable way to take the character.
Now, I will admit there are Bridget related plot points from the previous games that would have been nice to get an update on, and Bridget's Strive appearance does feel a bit hasty and haphazard in its implementation. That doesn't change that most of the people that cry about "bad writing" are just mad that she's technically not a femboy anymore, and with how they froth at the mouth over it its really hard to believe it's not rooted in some level of transphobia when the only thing that changed was which pronouns the character uses and nothing actually established that anything about her body has changed.
So, I'm pretty sure this has been asked before, but I don't know the answer. Do we tag BA characters if only their halo is visible?
Of course. Their halos is part of their character. BTW, I have gone ahead to add tag hoshino_(blue_archive), because Yume's halo in this post is Hoshino's halo.
I don't think it's worth creating a tag, but those are ketchup-flavoured chips, which are rarely seen outside of Canada.
They're not as uncommon in the USA as you might expect, actually; they're not all that hard to find here, but I'm a couple states south of New England so that could have something to do with it.
Technically, animalization tag is incorrect because cyanobacteria don't belong to the Animalia kingdom. I was surprised, though, to discover that the plantification tag exists (and has Miku post as well).
