How about a ... trap champion ? v2

Muf için Tuf·11/30/2017, 7:09:56 PM·2 votes·843 views

Welp, my first thread got removed. Rito did a very good job explaining why it got removed and surpisingly it isn't because I wanted a trap champion. So here I am making another post. I think riot should make a "trap" champion who dress and present themselves in a way that is almost indistinguishable from their opposite sex. I would honestly love something like that. What are your thoughts about it ?

p.s: A good fellow named SEKAI gave a really good explanation in my previous post about people with gender dysphoria who might be against this idea so I'm adding it in my post.

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9 Comments

Hupsis11/30/2017, 7:33:37 PM2 votes

I mean... Evelynn She's a trap of a kind.

Dunno what to say to this thread. I doubt Valoran has medical knowledge of hormone treatments. Sure it doesn't mean there can't be characters who cross dress or have traits that are often considered traits for the opposite gender.

Illaoi Taric express themselves more gender neutral than average.

I'm not against a "trap" character as long as it's believable from the lore standpoint. Maybe an Ionian sage that was born intersex or a victim of a chemical accident in Zaun.

But please not a loli character. It's such a stereotype.

philbergeron11/30/2017, 7:36:31 PM2 votes

The term you're looking for is trans, not trap. Traps are fictitious sexual fantasies and do not necessarily conform to their expressed gender. Now, you have two options there, a character that's trans_gender_, which probably means that their identity be left to their lore and not be some out-in-front show for everyone. Or you can go with trans_vestite_ which is someone who dresses themselves as the opposite sex, but still associates themselves as their original gender (i.e. Eddie Izzard).

I personally wouldn't mind a character who maybe dressed in different gendered outfits or presented themselves in a more progressive way. Transvestism is a fairly interesting topic when discussing gender identities. Showing off the modern nature of how "boys can wear dress' too."

An actual transgender character, however, would be very difficult to properly pull off for a number of reasons.

If you establish them as one gender and then give them tells that they used to be another gender, then it makes them more of less the butt of a joke regarding non-passing transfolk, which doesn't exactly need any help in that arena.

I think it would be much easier to have a character explore their identity through their dialogue. There's a much less likely chance of it blowing up in Riot's face.

Sincerely,

A trans person

redniwediS11/30/2017, 7:17:22 PM1 votes

So what exactly makes a character a "trap"? What details are specifically involved in a "trap" that are not in a regular character with "gender dysmorphia".

I looked up gender dysmorphia because I'm not too familiar with it, and it was corrected to gender dysphoria for me. Is this the same thing, or is dysmorphia something else?

JulieJuice12/1/2017, 1:41:30 AM1 votes

WELL mostly it's that the wording (Trap) is considered, er... not good. (it implies the person's use of dress is "tricking" the (usually male) observer, and that they are a deceiver)

crossdress isn't inherently bad, heck, it's actually weird how Men wearing Dresses is considered high taboo, since women wearing suits has been in stile for, oof, decades now!

Tamur12/1/2017, 1:56:50 AM1 votes

Somethings are best not done, this is one of those things.

There is no possible way to make a transgender champion without having both Lore and kit being about the champion being a transgender and still be apropriate for the games rating.