Poison got me into this genre, because before I’d never been a fan of fighting games (they were ok, but I have an obnoxious lil bro who’d start an actual fight whenever I beat his ass). A friend / lecturer I know at uni is a huge obsessive into games, and when she introduced me to the character Poison I got obsessive over her because… sh*t, I didn’t realise how important it was for me to see a trans character who’s hella sexy, kicks ass and doesn’t take any crap from anyone. A trans woman myself (with scarily similar height, birthday, and else to her), this was just “right I have to get this game and play it right now”
Helps that she’s also really fun to play and pretty smooth to pick up as a relative beginner.
I’m new to the scene and haven’t watched much e-sports in general, I keep meaning to catch up on Dota 2 and USF4.
That’s a shame though D: One of my driving forces to get me practising a lot more is that I thought it’d be really cool to be #1 at Poison, making a trans player the best at a trans char.
I don’t plan on dropping her anytime soon anyways, she’s really fun to play and one of those characters that suits me both in play-style and general Style. Hell, I’m planning on cosplaying her this year, can’t drop her now. But I will note I very rarely come across other Poison players. As @Neclord said, guess they can’t handle the sexiness >:3
I’m still pretty new to the scene as well. Started playing online with Super Street Fighter 4, but took long breaks between the updates. Most of the time I am watching streams instead of playing the game.
And when I play a game, I usually main female characters, so I started with Chun a bit and then switched to Juri after a year or so.
But now with Ultra I started to use Poison a bit and I’m in love with this character as well. She is the first trans woman character I use in a game (well, there aren’t many of them anyway, sadly). I like esthetic characters and in my opinion, she has the best looking female body and face in the game. Even hotter than my main :3.
If I see a trans woman like that in real life, I would ask her for a date for sure! Even though I’m 100% straight, I don’t care lol.
What just bugs me are people talking about this character and sometimes it goes like this:
Guy A: Damn, Poison is hot!
Guy B: Dude, she has a dick!
And I’m like: Would something extra down there (even if we don’t know 100% if she has it or not) make her look ugly all of the sudden? I don’t understand, I guess it’s just trolling.
Anyway, my current goal is now to get good with Juri and with Poison.
Somehow, I have the highest win rate with Poison out of all my 4 characters I use (rose and chun are my secondaries).
Guess it’s because she is easier to learn and her fireballs are annoying for a lot of beginners in this game. =)
It’s just kids all awkward about their sexuality and thinking that any presence of D makes them gay. It’s not like there aren’t a million regular female characters in gaming. And yeah, there aren’t many trans-female characters, I think off the top of my head I can only think of Bridget (Guilty Gear I think??) and Erica (Catherine).
I don’t count Birdo. F*** Birdo.
I only put him in because I’ve only vaguely heard and needed an extra example, because I’m kinda biased towards being obsessed with Poison and Erica since I found them. Hence why I’m also quite pushy towards myself to including a ton of trans chars in games I’m designing during my university course.
I must say it’s reassuring to see how cool people are with Poison’s gender on this site. Looking her up before led me to so much vitriol I had to install a comment blocker to stop myself getting baited into fights
Sadly, there is still a lot of hatred out there for Poison. I get hate mail all the time for using her, and several members here have been harassed for playing as her.
The FGC is good for the fact that it rarely gives a fuck about anyones personal life past what they see initially. Take Ricky Ortiz, one of the greatest FG players in history changes genders and nobody really cares, it’s business as usual and that’s how it goes.
You’re judged based on your performance in the games you like, that’s all people care about and I like it that way.
Personally, I just genuinely don’t care. Be whatever and do whatever you want, I don’t care in the slightest, Poisons gender didn’t even come into it in retrospect.
Does Vivian from Paper Mario count? In Japanese she was a transsexual who was rejected by her villainous sisters for wanting to fit in with them. Though in America that was rewritten to her sisters not liking her because she’s ugly (wtf?). Probably falls under the same category as Birdo for you though since Vivian was a distinctly non-human creature. There’s also Dark Sun Gwendolyn in Dark Souls, which is kinda an edge-case like Bridget, but considering he spends all his time using magic to disguise himself as his sister of his own volition, probably actually had a female gender identity, hard to say though, I don’t think there was much clearly indicated one way or another.
That’s the only other two I can think of. Poison’s still the best though cause she’s a badass.
