This is extremely good and you made phenomenal use of the game engine to tell a story about the lack of agency young transfems are granted over their bodies and appearances. The dialogue between the two voices and the ways that different dialogue options are presented to the player, but then not actually used [the player is not allowed to assert themselves or come out] feels so painful. Really well made and really important.
Painful and very real. This was a common experience for me until I moved out of my parents' place. I'm still reluctant to go for a haircut even now, but I do every now and then to get rid of my split ends. I love the way you wrote this though; when I was much younger, there was such a painful difference between what I wanted to do and what I'd end up doing, and I think you captured that dissonance perfectly. Well done!
Yay for no more haircuts!! I found this very relatable; I've had kind of the afab trans version of this experience, with people telling me my short hair made me look like a boy (as if that were a negative thing) and asking for a short haircut and then having the hairdresser cut it in such a way that it would "still look feminine". Now I cut my own hair!
I INSANELY relate to this. When I was 14, I had hair almost to my shoulders, the longest of all "boys", but before the end of the school year my parents forced me to cut it. I still remember that I asked the barber to cut it only a little.... I ended up practically bald. I had maybe one or two inches of hair on my head. I'm an adult now. I live on my own and I have never been to the hairdreser since. Thank you for making this game < 3
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This is extremely good and you made phenomenal use of the game engine to tell a story about the lack of agency young transfems are granted over their bodies and appearances. The dialogue between the two voices and the ways that different dialogue options are presented to the player, but then not actually used [the player is not allowed to assert themselves or come out] feels so painful. Really well made and really important.
Painful and very real. This was a common experience for me until I moved out of my parents' place. I'm still reluctant to go for a haircut even now, but I do every now and then to get rid of my split ends. I love the way you wrote this though; when I was much younger, there was such a painful difference between what I wanted to do and what I'd end up doing, and I think you captured that dissonance perfectly. Well done!
Yay for no more haircuts!! I found this very relatable; I've had kind of the afab trans version of this experience, with people telling me my short hair made me look like a boy (as if that were a negative thing) and asking for a short haircut and then having the hairdresser cut it in such a way that it would "still look feminine". Now I cut my own hair!
I really relate to this—thanks for making it!
I INSANELY relate to this. When I was 14, I had hair almost to my shoulders, the longest of all "boys", but before the end of the school year my parents forced me to cut it. I still remember that I asked the barber to cut it only a little.... I ended up practically bald. I had maybe one or two inches of hair on my head. I'm an adult now. I live on my own and I have never been to the hairdreser since. Thank you for making this game < 3
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