Yeah, it's surprisingly positive. IIRC DnD 5ed was surprisingly positive as well, so I wonder if (hope?) there's a decision higher-up in Wizards of the Coast to support progressive choices in their products.
I'm cautious of being too positive because magic isn't perfect and has been criticised before (both correctly and knee-jerk-ly) for gender portrayal. So I don't want to say "look here, an example of inclusivity done right". But OTOH, there's a lot to be pleased about, positive portrayals of characters who happen to be trans or non-neurotypical are really rare even in circles you'd hope they're not, and magic has had a lot of this recently, and I want to support more!
I'm also curious where this level of thing is decided. I assume there's meetings between various teams deciding the general outline of each planeswalker. But who decided being trans was a possibility, was it part of the concept, or did Doug Beyer just make it up and then it became canonical?
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I'm cautious of being too positive because magic isn't perfect and has been criticised before (both correctly and knee-jerk-ly) for gender portrayal. So I don't want to say "look here, an example of inclusivity done right". But OTOH, there's a lot to be pleased about, positive portrayals of characters who happen to be trans or non-neurotypical are really rare even in circles you'd hope they're not, and magic has had a lot of this recently, and I want to support more!
I'm also curious where this level of thing is decided. I assume there's meetings between various teams deciding the general outline of each planeswalker. But who decided being trans was a possibility, was it part of the concept, or did Doug Beyer just make it up and then it became canonical?
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