avwolf wrote:
Even allowing that there is no going back, and she will forever think of herself as male, she should perhaps come to accept that she can and has fallen for Keith. And maybe, just maybe, he could have feelings for her. I mean, his best friend is Alaric, for goodness sake; it's not like he's going to have some sort of horrific homophobic reaction. :P It's at least worth a try.
My memory is getting a little muddled on this point, but hasn't Tom stated pretty much that she's healed, back to herself, and only holding onto the link because she's scared to let it go?
Kinuki wrote:
Well, it's something I've always wanted cleared up. Is Natani bisexual, meaning she is sexually attracted to both genders, or did Tom mean (in her bio on the Characters page) that she's transsexual, identifying as a male while she has a female body, but calling it "bisexual"? We know that she's transsexual, that's been established as a fact within the story, so the question for me is whether Tom is indeed making it clear she's both transsexual AND bisexual, or if he simply used the wrong term in her bio.
I would not say it's established that she's transsexual. Unless you want to count brain damage as transsexual... which, to me, just seems rude. Brain Damage and Transsexuallity should remain two different labels, and not be conflated, I think.
As for the rest of the question, I dunno if she was flirting with that gal, or whether she would do so now, but having written gender-confused characters from time to time, I can say that coming up with straight/gay/bisexual as a title for them is very, very difficult. Conversations on that point often end up seeming a little bit like "Who's on First?" and I'd just go with bisexual meaning "don't know what else to call it" till she sorts herself out.
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