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ryukodragon:

Please don’t feel bad if you see Frisk, the main character of Undertale, as a specific gender, boy or girl or otherwise.

This is how they were designed, so that you could more easily identify with Frisk and their journey. That’s not a bad thing! Just understand that not everyone will see Frisk the way you do, and there’s NO ONE RIGHT WAY to see them.

Let’s all get along and enjoy Undertale for the amazing journey it is, okay? That’s the main point after all!

This is a polite way of dismissing nonbinary players who like that Frisk is in canon nonbinary.

There’s been many posts on this, so I’ll summarize the main point, but you’re not supposed to project yourself onto Frisk. The game was literally designed to make you believe, at first, you were creating an avatar of yourself by naming the fallen child. 

But, if you played through and completed the Pacifist Run, it’s revealed to you that the character you named was not the character you were controlling, and that their name, their personality, their whole being, is not supposed to be a reflection of you. They’re Frisk; they go by they/them pronouns, even after their friends learn their name, Flowey, who previously was referring to the first fallen child, calls Frisk by name and refers to them as a different person to you by directly talking about them to you.

Frisk’s character arc centers around your gradual realization that they’re not ambiguous or your avatar; they’re Frisk and nothing else. That’s why the line, “Still just you, Frisk,” exists, because it’s supposed to show their individuality.

Not only is dismissing this really subtle jab at RPGs for the morality of controlling the protagonist dismissing an important story element Toby Fox wanted to convey, but it’s rude to nonbinary players who originally projected onto Frisk thinking they’d never be nonbinary and then being ecstatic to see them be nonbinary after all.

There’s so many cis girl and even more cis boy protagonists; just let us have Frisk. Frisk, as a nonbinary protagonist in an incredibly well-received and mass-played game, is so much more important than another cis character.

You can have NB frisk. Just don’t get mad at someone who gives frisk and chara pronouns. They were fairly ambiguous so that the player could have them be whatever they want. Some people think frisk is a boy, some think frisk is a girl. some think frisk is NB. there is nothing wrong with either of them because that’s who frisk was designed.