I am trans (MtF). My wife is trans (MtF). I run a discord server full of trans, gay, and NB people. Most of my friends are trans. My creative writing blog has two trans characters, with one before his/her egg cracked and questioning, and my self-representative character is aromantic.
Micah-10 feels like Bungie made Osiris and Saint gay, made Eramis and Mara lesbian, and then said, whoops! We forgot to represent a minority! Let's hastily slap together a character!
Micah-10 having two dads just feels like over-representation of LGBT. Like whoever wrote the character just assumed trans people are automatically LGBT because they have LGBT parents.
The whole "leaving the planet because of parents fighting" also seems like a very over-representative thing, yes a lot of LGBT people have issues at home but there's also a few that have very happy childhoods.
Then there's the whole thing with Cayde "useing his memories of their time together to create the idea of a son of his own to try and ground his future resets." WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT?
This entire character is an over-representative mess, and bringing it up in my Discord server ended up with most people agreeing.
[b]Micah-10 feels like a cishet person's idea of what a trans person should be like.[/b]
Whoever wrote this character needs some strong social sensitivity training.
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4 RepliesMicah-10's been in the lore since the beginning of Destiny 2, and Beyond Light spelled out that Micah Abrams and Micah-10 are the same person. Why is it only an issue now? Never mind that the argument between the parents has context within the story - there was a divide between them over what Clovis Bray was doing with the Exos. Nor do I see Micah having two fathers as the writers making certain assumptions about LGBT families.