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[idle_traveller]

1. I AM GOING TO TRY A THING. Namely, when I am comfortable with someone, I tend to give them a deluge of questions whenever they throw a meme up. I am opening this up to anyone. I will ask you questions until I am thoroughly exhausated and/or have sated my curiosity.* You will get a minimum of three questions if: A) I have threaded with you a

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♡ Angel Beats! is what happens when you give dumb kids who can't die weapons. In all seriousness, it's about Otonashi Yuzuru, an amnesiac kid who wakes up in the Afterlife (modeled like a school) and joins a group of kids (the SSS) to rebel against God, because they want to stick it to the Man for giving them such awful lives when they were alive. But all of them are idiots, so while serious things do happen and Jun Maeda does do his best to punch you in your heartplace, they also do a lot of stupid things that tend to involve them dying or getting maimed. But it's okay they get better guys!!

♡ IT'S ... a mixed bag, I think! I wouldn't call trappiness one of my pings -- in fact, I usually don't have that much interest in men who dress like girls, or girls who try to dress as boys. Their motivations for crossdressing may range from "for the lulz" or because what they dress as is what they identify as, which, while I can certainly like characters like that, it doesn't ping me in my app place.

I think one of the biggest appeals of unconfirmed traps is that,for the ones I play, at least, a) trappiness isn't pivotal to their character, nor is it given excessive attention in canon (idk why but I've never been fond of excessive LOOK IT'S A TRAP TRAP TRAP kind of thing), and b) it's ambiguous. The fact that both their physical sex and their gender identity can swing either way is something I enjoy thinking about, because, as I see it, regardless of gender and sex, they're still the same character. But it's the way they identify, how they do so, what led them to do so, where they come from, and how that effects them in current canon that I find interesting! It is neither an overbearing aspect of their characters, nor is it something that has absolutely no bearing at all on them. Regardless of how complex or simple (or nonexistent) the mangaka choose to portray Ageha and Kuroyuri's thoughts on gender/their physical sex, I think I will still enjoy thinking about it and playing it.

I think this is why I've somehow gravitated toward unconfirmed traps, though it wasn't a conscious decision. However, I think I might also like characters with complex thoughts on their gender/sex, as well as those who may have a physical sex but aren't sure about their identity. Complex stuff! It makes for good thought fodder, and thinking about a character and their motivations and so on is usually what keeps me interested in a character.