(loved trope) Trans characters who do not/cannot pass but everyone still respects their identity

[u/altrightobserver]

• Lev from The Last of Us Part II: Lev is a trans boy who cannot medically transition due to being in a zombie apocalypse with a fascist government, yet the main cast in the story supports and affirms him as male.
• Denise Bryson from Twin Peaks: A trans woman DEA and FBI agent. She does not pass in the series, which is an integral part of her character; her boss simply tells people who don't like it to "fix their hearts or die."
• Cordelia from Vinland Saga: As a trans woman living in Northern Europe during the Viking age, it is impossible for Cordelia, who has a hulking, muscular figure, to transition to female. But despite not looking the part physically, everyone is cool with it and refers to her as female.
• Ladiva from Granblue Fantasy: A pro wrestler who makes no attempts to pass (save for hair) and is still beloved by the cast as a maternal figure, serving as a stark contrast to her species' women who are petite.

Edit: typos and incorrect lore fixes

[u/Leskendle45]

Ticker my GOAT (Warframe)

[u/Sad_Nectarine7457 → u/Leskendle45]

"Well well, if it isn't my little spray of Stardust. Ticker's gonna put the comm on the hook and take five. How are you?"

For those interested, Ticker lives in a society called Fortuna, under the rule of a faction called the Corpus that have a literal religious worship of profit and commerce. She was born into debt she can never pay off, her entire people are. Their organs, limbs and even brains are taken from them piece by piece until they can pay it off; most never do. She's not able to transition because she literally doesn't have legal ownerships over her body, but never the less she acts as a beacon of gritty, weary hope in the hellscape she lives in. Ticker can be found in Fortuna, where she runs a black market where players can buy the dept of people she's found coming up to their "final collection".

[u/ijiolokae → u/Sad_Nectarine7457]

Ticker has excellent quote too

"A person gets told a lot of things over the course of a life. Who they are. Who they should be. Amateurs, lecturing a professional. Anything that can't survive scrutiny, shouldn't."

"Some see life as adversity or adventure. The adventurers make it."

"They can save themselves, with a little help."

"The life we get is so rarely the one we planned for. You've done good, Stardust."

[u/xdTechniker25 → u/ijiolokae]

That line about amateurs lecturing a professional actually helped me a lot in my start of my transition when I was still too ... people minded about this whole thing. By now I try to be very natural about me being a woman, just work in progress ;3

[u/batspiders → u/xdTechniker25]

I am so proud of you sister

[u/xdTechniker25 → u/batspiders]

Thank you <3

[u/Medical_Commission71 → u/ijiolokae]

Get her floof on stardays, it has lines!

[u/TaralasianThePraxic → u/Sad_Nectarine7457]

I fucking love Ticker, she's perfect.

"It takes long winter nights to teach a girl how to cultivate within herself invincible summer days."

[u/Based-Rhino → u/Sad_Nectarine7457]

I've been playing warframe for 10+ years and literally only now realizing she's a trans woman. How tf did I miss that

[u/Medical_Commission71 → u/Based-Rhino]

She doesn't pass nor make any attempt to pass

Ps get her floof during star days it has voicelines

[u/Based-Rhino → u/Medical_Commission71]

Thanks for the tip! I usually forego Floofs because I prefer Noggles for my Backroom, I had no idea that the Floofs hid lore

[u/Entire-Aerie-9931 → u/Based-Rhino]

I mean I think it's pretty hard to get without someone telling you, it isn't really obvious and she isn't a very key character to the Fortuna storyline compared to others so you don't hear her being reffered to nearly as often

[u/Medical_Commission71 → u/Sad_Nectarine7457]

Her Signifigant other got brainshelved and she worked to get them back, but they were changed, after.

[u/MyNamCzechkoslovakia → u/Leskendle45]

Ticker my beloved my darling fairy god-aunt. I always thought it would look killer if they slung a feather boa over her shoulders.

[u/Working-Ferret-4296 → u/Leskendle45]

I fucking love Ticker. She's such a ray of sunshine

[u/wingedcoyote → u/Leskendle45]

Hell yeah, Ticker is so fucking cool. Voice of warmth and hardbitten positivity in the midst of a DARK ass place. And good on ya for getting a screenie from no spoilers mode.

[u/HydraWhiskey → u/Leskendle45]

"I have loved, and I have lost. 'Their absence has gone through me like thread through a needle,' as someone once said. All that I do is stitched with their color."

Ticker's my favorite NPC, and the voice acting for her is absolutely stellar.

[u/SentenceEmergency779 → u/Leskendle45]

Wich way did they transition? I cant tell a gender whatsoever.

[u/BlueDahlia123 → u/SentenceEmergency779]

Trans woman.

She lives in [Scifi_capitalist_dystopia#3849] and isnt just unable to transition, but was forced to sell off her own body parts and replace them with mechanic prosthetics needed for the enviroment, only to be stuck in perpetual debt paying for those prosthetics.

She also canonically revived the concept of Valentine's day thousands of years after it was forgotten, which is the in-game reason for the yearly event.

Lastly she is also known for having some of the best quotes on the entire game despite being a single vendor in one hub with no participation in the main quest.

"I've never met a priest who could tell you anything about Heaven, but they knew every square inch of Hell. They should. They built it."

"I see a little bit of me in everyone, Stardust. Hard not to love what you know. We are all the Universe in drag."

"A person gets told a lot of things over the course of a life. Who they are. Who they should be. Amateurs, lecturing a professional."

[u/Samdyhighground23 → u/SentenceEmergency779]

Trans woman MtF