re: luna

I want to make it clear, seeing roxy how you want to see them is entirely up to the individual. by no means am i claiming that people who prefer transfem/ trans woman roxy over transmasc/ trans man roxy are inherently transphobic in that regard. both of these roxys are the same roxy. they are both equally important to the story. if roxy instead came out as a trans woman in the epilogues, or something similar, it would still carry more or less the same message- which is that roxy is trans. and he has always been trans.

the problem lies in the bizarre notion that transmasc/ trans man roxy is somehow "bad", and ive seen wayyyy too many people blatantly call him an abomination. as an artist who has drawn trans man roxy for quite a while now, the way some people interact with my posts is honestly...disgusting. important to note: there are also people who think transfem roxy is bad too!! transphobia all around. however i do think that transmasc roxy is still somewhat less popular than transfem roxy, and thus there are more people who sort of just pretend like it doesnt exist. which, as a fandom, we can do better!

re: trans woman hc of roxy

i seriously do empathize with this as a whole. how you perceive and interpret a character can be extremely special. when i read y12k by spicyyeti for the first time it seriously changed my life in a way i cant describe, not just as a trans man myself in regards to gender but like. as a writer in general. (sorry im always and WILL always glaze spicyyeti) more in regards to actual homestuck though, i went into it with more or less the same idea as some people in this thread (trans woman roxy was popular, so i just viewed roxy that way) however the more i read roxy the more i saw myself in him, specifically his deflection of his own gender as some sort of idealized mother with children nonsense to cope with it. as a trans man, ive always related to him in that way. there are so many times when i think it would be so much easier if i was just the pretty woman someone could marry and have children with. and as a gnc trans man who is overall very feminine, roxys hyperfem appearence/ way he carries himself really reads as a closeted trans man trying his absolute best to fit in. to do anything that will distract people. pairing that with his heavy drinking, and his aspect of the void, roxys relationship to his gender seems to be a prison he places himself in. maybe a prison the audience places him in, as well. (i mean more in regard to people who think hes cis btw)

there is so much i can say about trans man roxy. i think its worth it to explore more of this topic. btw i highly recommend y12k! all in all, however, trans roxy will always be true. she is beautiful, he is beautiful, and they all say something extremely important about growing up transgender.