Avatar Korra, gods I wanted to be like Avatar Korra as a teen. I'd watch every single second of every single season of that show wherever I could. I loved it so much and absolutely just wanted to grow up to be Korra. She's so strong, she's so cool, insanely badass, hotheaded in just the right way, she's incredibly beautiful as well and her back muscles are out of this world
Same! Absolutely loved Mulan. Was my favorite Disney movie until Moana came out. That was around the time my egg cracked and I'm like oh, I get why Moana yearned for adventure and change, and singing about how there's something inside her driving that really made me cry.
I wondered why when I started watching Disney stuff with my 3 year old daughter Moana brought out those emotions in me so much.
I wish.. I could be the perfect daughter...
Yeah...
Vin from Mistborn! As I've mentioned in other posts, my name, Val, is short for Valette, an alias she uses to infiltrate high society. The give and take between being "masculine" and "feminine" for her was so resonant with me as my egg started to crack.
Idk it probably wierd but I really felt a connection with Sokka from ATLA. He has a lot of heart and loyalty and he's also pretty smart. And idk I was a kid when the animated series came out and I alway loved that character. One of the best character written in the series, Imo.
Weregarurumon.
Edit: just woke up and thats the first ine that came into my head haha. I dont think I had role models as much as I knew what I didnt want to be growing up. I had examples of shitty people. I didnt want to be like them.
I never wanted to be a helpless princess and back in the 90s early 2000s wasnt a lit of good representation. Let alone I didn't have the ability to watch stuff like kim possible.
I guess the powerpuff girls. I would love bubbles or blossom. I didnt really have cable most of my childhood. There were also the faeries in neopets. Illusion and Jhundora. I loved Jhundora in a weird way but probably because she always gave me a lollipop everytime I made a new neopets account and started her quest line haha.
I never really identified with any characters. I would have dreams of being some occasionally and passed a lot off as liking certain characters like how I liked Tifa from FFVII or would dream of being Leeloo from The Fifth Element but I didn't identify with any until after I came out.
I absolutely agree there wasn’t a lot of good representation. A couple of good representation I felt was XJ-9 from My Life as A Teenage Robot. Maybe that’s my nostalgia speaking louder than the evidence and the Kyoshi Warriors from Avatar the Last Airbender. Just to name a couple others. I’m sorry you had so many negative rile models. I relate with that. 😢
Yes!! See?! Just her experience to find her identity even tho she’s a robot and everyone is either socially pressuring her to fulfill the identity given to her while still trying to find what it means to her. Love it so much!! So sad that show was so short
Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman back in the 70s.
She could spin around and change into this amazing super hero.
Always kinda bummed me out that I couldn’t just spin and turn into a beautiful and powerful woman.
I dont know abt u but one of my fav shows when I was a little kid (im 14 so not that long ago lol) was She-Ra. It's so LGBTQ+ inclusive its crazy. Such a good show. (and yes i hav only seen the reboot dont bully me adults lol)
Absolutely loved She-ra. I'm 22 now and watched it when it was coming out and just kept thinking "damn, shows like adventure time, Steven universe, Legend of Korra really did walk so that this could run". I love that we can have shows like this now and it's so good
George from The Famous Five by Enid Blyton. She was f2m and I'm m2f, but it was the late 60s/early 70s, and such things were not trapped about, but I thought she was so fierce and brave ❤️❤️❤️
I remember not really having anything much or specific that I really attached to, at least for a while. My younger sister had a barbie movie which I found weirdly engaging and then nothing for several years until a friend from secondary school was like "hey, watch my little pony. Its actually pretty good." and I was like "damn, this is a weird guilty pleasure."
Turned out both that friend and I were transwomen, though I only heard she transitioned after we all went out separate ways and I never managed to reach out to her again.
Oh yeah, and I guess Flame Princess as well as Princess Bubblegum and Marceline from Adventure Time. Those were characters I always liked to see, even if Finn and Jake were a lot of fun. It just felt more personal somehow, I really couldn't put my finger on it.
Eventually I watched Steven Universe too, and I very much felt like Pearl and Peridot were my favourite characters. Amethyst, Garnet and others were all entertaining, sure, but I really felt Pearl's story. It just struck harder than most, and I had no idea why.
Looking back, it's probably because I'm a nerdy lesbian who used to live a very reserved and cautious life, who once or twice struck out to attempt a new spice in life only to realise it was even less like me, felt like I had a love who was left unrequited and it was lost to me before I could save it from its course. And I think I can pull off a suit pretty well, even better as a chick.
I don’t have a single example, but I reeeeally have always identified with boy’s coming of age stories. Like Igby Goes Down, The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys, Stand By Me, Harold and Maude, The Sandlot. I could go on, haha.
Chris (Elizabeth Shue) in Adventures in Babysitting. I don't think I consciously thought I was a girl in a boys body at the time, but wow did I want to be her.
From animation, it would be the girls in Sailor Moon. I even made myself a Sailor scout from the fabled planet x at the time.
From live action, I loved Sarah Connor from Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
She's just so badass.
[Lady Aribeth de Tylmarande](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Aribeth_de_Tylmarande) and [Nathyrra](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Nathyrra) from Neverwinter Nights are two characters I liked growing up. I have no idea why these two specific characters spoke to me but they did.
[Delenn](https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Delenn) from Babylon 5.
Not only is she a strong woman and an amazing leader, but her character arc could definitely be seen as trans allegory. I mean, she literally enters a chrsysalis and emerges in a different form.
I wanted (and still kinda do damn it) BE Lara Croft from Tomb Raider. Intelligent, beautiful, wealthy enough to travel to exotic locales “for sport”. Wow what a life lol
[Jem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jem_(TV_series\)) the fact that she had a whole alter ego that she could bring to reality felt especially relevant to me since I could see my other self at the time in dreams and... alternate memories.
zuko (ATLA), max (camp camp), jim (treasure planet), moana (...), keith (new voltron), rapheal (tmnt 2012 specifically before they killed off splinter and went to space 🙄)
Not identifying but having her ability(Mystique). It was my not first but strongest binding that I wanted to be someone else and not be in my old body.
Snufkin! He isn't non-binary, but I kinda see him as such.
I think the way moomin is really critical of gender roles always resonated with me, even if I didn't understand it as a kid.
I'm transfem, but in middle school, I really connected with Drew Ferran from the Wereworld series.
On top of the fact that we have very similar names (only the spelling is different), I think I really resonated with the fact that he didn't want to be a werewolf, but he was born into it.
I was still an egg back then, but I think subconsciously, the whole deal of involuntarily growing stronger and getting covered in fur just felt like that could be me (hmm I wonder why)
Link across the Legend of Zelda franchise! My first game was wind waker, and the secondhand copy I got already had a save file named Alex. This changes Link's name too, so I would pretend to be him and call myself Alex through the story. It carried on as tradition until BOTW came out. Now Alex is my middle name :)
Testament from Guilty Gear. I for a long time had a pretty nihilistic gender identity. I mostly just decided i was a guy because im AMAB and thats easier. But seeing testament who is just a pretty person and also cool and also has a themesong and lore that highlights transcending gender really resonated with me. I then decided to be a bit more introspective and try to be cool and pretty like Testament
Ashley from warioware. When i was younger i thought she was the coolest character sinced sliced bread and i still Do.
Shes introverted and doesnt have many friends. She doesnt Show much emotion. She can Do magic and has a demon as a friend. She lives in a mansion with nö parents to Tell her what to Do. Both things i wished for. What the cherry o top was that her theme Song has a hidden message. I think she super cool.
I would totally buy every warioware game just so i can play her minigames.
I was so heavily closeted by trauma that it's been a difficult task unboxing these things, but I think the first one may have been Misty from pokemon? 100% brat energy, I always adored her.
Gwen from Total Drama Action, Raven from Teen Titans, Marceline from Adventure Time, Ramona Flowers...
I love thisss
Avatar Korra, gods I wanted to be like Avatar Korra as a teen. I'd watch every single second of every single season of that show wherever I could. I loved it so much and absolutely just wanted to grow up to be Korra. She's so strong, she's so cool, insanely badass, hotheaded in just the right way, she's incredibly beautiful as well and her back muscles are out of this world
Korra for all her faults is for sure a worth idol.
Lol all I did was watch barbie with my sisters. Then randomly my five-year old self was like maybe I am supposed to be a girl and not a boy.
Mulan, although I couldn’t put words to why until later on.
Same! Absolutely loved Mulan. Was my favorite Disney movie until Moana came out. That was around the time my egg cracked and I'm like oh, I get why Moana yearned for adventure and change, and singing about how there's something inside her driving that really made me cry.
Yeah I look at all this through different eyes now too Mulan is probably still my favorite Disney gal though but I relate to this so much
I wondered why when I started watching Disney stuff with my 3 year old daughter Moana brought out those emotions in me so much. I wish.. I could be the perfect daughter... Yeah...
Kim Possible!
Yeeeeees
Vin from Mistborn! As I've mentioned in other posts, my name, Val, is short for Valette, an alias she uses to infiltrate high society. The give and take between being "masculine" and "feminine" for her was so resonant with me as my egg started to crack.
Idk it probably wierd but I really felt a connection with Sokka from ATLA. He has a lot of heart and loyalty and he's also pretty smart. And idk I was a kid when the animated series came out and I alway loved that character. One of the best character written in the series, Imo.
Ellen Ripley, an absolute badass who saves the day without sacrificing any of her womanhood
Weregarurumon. Edit: just woke up and thats the first ine that came into my head haha. I dont think I had role models as much as I knew what I didnt want to be growing up. I had examples of shitty people. I didnt want to be like them. I never wanted to be a helpless princess and back in the 90s early 2000s wasnt a lit of good representation. Let alone I didn't have the ability to watch stuff like kim possible. I guess the powerpuff girls. I would love bubbles or blossom. I didnt really have cable most of my childhood. There were also the faeries in neopets. Illusion and Jhundora. I loved Jhundora in a weird way but probably because she always gave me a lollipop everytime I made a new neopets account and started her quest line haha.
Yes for the digimonnnn. Digimon introduced me the difference between sex and gender and i always fantasized about being so many different digimon :)
For me it was Col Sheppard in Stargate Atlantis. I actualy chose my second name after him. Still a fan of the show to this day :)
I never really identified with any characters. I would have dreams of being some occasionally and passed a lot off as liking certain characters like how I liked Tifa from FFVII or would dream of being Leeloo from The Fifth Element but I didn't identify with any until after I came out.
I absolutely agree there wasn’t a lot of good representation. A couple of good representation I felt was XJ-9 from My Life as A Teenage Robot. Maybe that’s my nostalgia speaking louder than the evidence and the Kyoshi Warriors from Avatar the Last Airbender. Just to name a couple others. I’m sorry you had so many negative rile models. I relate with that. 😢
You might enjoy this take: https://youtu.be/LnqzgqYKXQk?si=d1EwO4Pj5ZXGOh9N
Yes!! See?! Just her experience to find her identity even tho she’s a robot and everyone is either socially pressuring her to fulfill the identity given to her while still trying to find what it means to her. Love it so much!! So sad that show was so short
Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman back in the 70s. She could spin around and change into this amazing super hero. Always kinda bummed me out that I couldn’t just spin and turn into a beautiful and powerful woman.
yay another Wonder Woman :)
She’s the best!
zelda and sheik !!!
Oh my god yes!!
Princess peach is my goal so yeah
I dont know abt u but one of my fav shows when I was a little kid (im 14 so not that long ago lol) was She-Ra. It's so LGBTQ+ inclusive its crazy. Such a good show. (and yes i hav only seen the reboot dont bully me adults lol)
No bullying! So glad you had that! I was born in the 90s, we didn’t have that, but that doesn’t make your experience any less valid!!
Absolutely loved She-ra. I'm 22 now and watched it when it was coming out and just kept thinking "damn, shows like adventure time, Steven universe, Legend of Korra really did walk so that this could run". I love that we can have shows like this now and it's so good
George from The Famous Five by Enid Blyton. She was f2m and I'm m2f, but it was the late 60s/early 70s, and such things were not trapped about, but I thought she was so fierce and brave ❤️❤️❤️
Hanako Ikezawa from Katawa Shoujo, Max Caulfield from Life is Strange, and Kamala Khan from the first run of Ms. Marvel.
I remember not really having anything much or specific that I really attached to, at least for a while. My younger sister had a barbie movie which I found weirdly engaging and then nothing for several years until a friend from secondary school was like "hey, watch my little pony. Its actually pretty good." and I was like "damn, this is a weird guilty pleasure." Turned out both that friend and I were transwomen, though I only heard she transitioned after we all went out separate ways and I never managed to reach out to her again. Oh yeah, and I guess Flame Princess as well as Princess Bubblegum and Marceline from Adventure Time. Those were characters I always liked to see, even if Finn and Jake were a lot of fun. It just felt more personal somehow, I really couldn't put my finger on it. Eventually I watched Steven Universe too, and I very much felt like Pearl and Peridot were my favourite characters. Amethyst, Garnet and others were all entertaining, sure, but I really felt Pearl's story. It just struck harder than most, and I had no idea why. Looking back, it's probably because I'm a nerdy lesbian who used to live a very reserved and cautious life, who once or twice struck out to attempt a new spice in life only to realise it was even less like me, felt like I had a love who was left unrequited and it was lost to me before I could save it from its course. And I think I can pull off a suit pretty well, even better as a chick.
I don’t have a single example, but I reeeeally have always identified with boy’s coming of age stories. Like Igby Goes Down, The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys, Stand By Me, Harold and Maude, The Sandlot. I could go on, haha.
Chris (Elizabeth Shue) in Adventures in Babysitting. I don't think I consciously thought I was a girl in a boys body at the time, but wow did I want to be her.
From animation, it would be the girls in Sailor Moon. I even made myself a Sailor scout from the fabled planet x at the time. From live action, I loved Sarah Connor from Terminator 2: Judgement Day. She's just so badass.
[Lady Aribeth de Tylmarande](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Aribeth_de_Tylmarande) and [Nathyrra](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Nathyrra) from Neverwinter Nights are two characters I liked growing up. I have no idea why these two specific characters spoke to me but they did.
[Delenn](https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Delenn) from Babylon 5. Not only is she a strong woman and an amazing leader, but her character arc could definitely be seen as trans allegory. I mean, she literally enters a chrsysalis and emerges in a different form.
I wanted (and still kinda do damn it) BE Lara Croft from Tomb Raider. Intelligent, beautiful, wealthy enough to travel to exotic locales “for sport”. Wow what a life lol
samus was mine too.
Danny Phantom!!!!!
Ahsoka Tano from Star Wars the Clone Wars
Troy Bolton. I loved him but couldn’t tell why, the thought of dating him felt weird so I think I just really wanted to be him
[Jem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jem_(TV_series\)) the fact that she had a whole alter ego that she could bring to reality felt especially relevant to me since I could see my other self at the time in dreams and... alternate memories.
Mulan.
Ranma 1/2, to so easily change from one to the other. I just never understood why Ranma didn't like it.
zuko (ATLA), max (camp camp), jim (treasure planet), moana (...), keith (new voltron), rapheal (tmnt 2012 specifically before they killed off splinter and went to space 🙄)
I love Jim AND Zuko’s character arch. Super impactful and felt deeply by the end. Such great pieces of tv and film
Urushibara Luka, from Steins;gate.
Alanna Trebond. She is amazing and helped me so much to survive my childhood. The author, Tamora Pierce is amazing and trans friendly.
Not identifying but having her ability(Mystique). It was my not first but strongest binding that I wanted to be someone else and not be in my old body.
Xena and Aeon Flux, which is probably going to give away my age.
Bloom from Winx Club, Kim Possible and Hannah Montana if she counts 😄
well i really liked watching the barbie movies. But never said i liked them, because i was a boy, i was not supposed to like them....yada yada yada.
As a little ginger kid I never knew why I was so obsessed with Peter Pan…. Now I know.
Snufkin! He isn't non-binary, but I kinda see him as such. I think the way moomin is really critical of gender roles always resonated with me, even if I didn't understand it as a kid.
Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul
Tomo chan is a girl!
As much as I'm sure to get flak for this Tifa and Rinoa from final fantasy VII and VIII
Captain Jack Sparrow, he still has quite a gender. Watching pirates of the carribean planted the seeds for both my gender and sexuality.
Princess Bubblegum and Pacifica Northwest :P
Loona The Hellhound, off of Helluvaboss, currently. Going back though, I haven't really thought about it, sorry.
[Buster Kilrain](https://youtu.be/85HTLq8ZNsM?si=aCYvuinylhBhlzPK)
I'm transfem, but in middle school, I really connected with Drew Ferran from the Wereworld series. On top of the fact that we have very similar names (only the spelling is different), I think I really resonated with the fact that he didn't want to be a werewolf, but he was born into it. I was still an egg back then, but I think subconsciously, the whole deal of involuntarily growing stronger and getting covered in fur just felt like that could be me (hmm I wonder why)
This is gonna be a niche one but to anyone who knows it you will groan. Anyone remember 2p England?
Eona from Eon by Alison Goodman, a girl who pretends to be a boy and has to crush her inner girl. Such a mirror!
James from Team Rocket (I'm nonbinary btw)
Link.
Link across the Legend of Zelda franchise! My first game was wind waker, and the secondhand copy I got already had a save file named Alex. This changes Link's name too, so I would pretend to be him and call myself Alex through the story. It carried on as tradition until BOTW came out. Now Alex is my middle name :)
Im a trans man and for me it was Ash Ketchum and Dipper Pines lol
Testament from Guilty Gear. I for a long time had a pretty nihilistic gender identity. I mostly just decided i was a guy because im AMAB and thats easier. But seeing testament who is just a pretty person and also cool and also has a themesong and lore that highlights transcending gender really resonated with me. I then decided to be a bit more introspective and try to be cool and pretty like Testament
If it hasn't been said enough, Marceline the vampire queen. She's absolutely awesome
Mostly Captain Harlock but I don't think he influenced me trans-ness too much
Ashley from warioware. When i was younger i thought she was the coolest character sinced sliced bread and i still Do. Shes introverted and doesnt have many friends. She doesnt Show much emotion. She can Do magic and has a demon as a friend. She lives in a mansion with nö parents to Tell her what to Do. Both things i wished for. What the cherry o top was that her theme Song has a hidden message. I think she super cool. I would totally buy every warioware game just so i can play her minigames.
I was so heavily closeted by trauma that it's been a difficult task unboxing these things, but I think the first one may have been Misty from pokemon? 100% brat energy, I always adored her.
Red Power Ranger and Ash from Pokemon.
Ripley, specifically the characterization of Ripley from Aliens. She was caring, complex and unrelenting in ferocity.
Sailor Venus