Board Thread:Magnus Chase & the Gods of Asgard/@comment-5896827-20161014021044/@comment-33040002-20171011192908

Okay here goes my opinion:

First i want to say that i understand the point of view of all you but i don't think that Alex is just defined by being transgender. All along the hammer of thor yes we see Alex trying to explain what it is gender fluid and transgender and it looks like Rick is trying to educate but it happens cause he is really trying. The problem is that the people who are older keep forgeting that when Rick writes he is writing for kids and kids don't know exactly what is being transgender and in my opinion it's done in the most natural way. And it is just in the second book cause in the third we see more the development of the relationship between Alex and Magnus and all their friends not about just Alex being transgender so it doesn't get so exhaustive at least for me.In the third book we can see too more about Alex's family and it isn't just her/his father, we learn more about her/his grandfather and the story of the family too.

Second yes we all know that there are transgender people who are accepted by their family but in Magnus Chase Rick Riordan decided to show the reality of the kids that are homeless and between them there are gender fluid that weren't accepted and lost their home. It wasn't just the reality from transgender he tried to show it was the reality of the homeless transgender.

Third yes Alex is agressive but it is because she/he doesn' t trust in anyone ( one thing that is more part of Alex soul than beacause her/his past)and passed half of her/his life with people that tried in all the ways change who she/he was. She/he accepts the person that she/he is but some people don't and i can say by my own experience that when it happens you become a bitter person and again in the third book she/he is more open and soft yes she/he still is ironic and sarcastic but it is Alex's personality. of course that she/he doesn't talk too much about past but it's because it's too painful and when it's that way you cant rush it.

Okay now to finish i know some people are saying that Alex doesn't have a purpose to exist in the book and the story would work witouht her/him and it's true but it isn't just her/him all the characters except the principal are dispensable they are just there to give the readers more diversity of personality to read it's to get fun reading about them so we can see part of ourselves on them.And about the saying that Alex wasn't well explored i don't agree i think was explored enough and by te way Rick Riordan said that maybe he can come back and write more about Magnus Chase so let's wait.

Thank you for reading and again I respect the point of view of all you and it's okay if you don't like Alex as long as you don't like cause of the personality of the character not the gender. In my opinion Alex was a great and funny character that i liked a lot it isn't my favorite but it was good to read about her/him cause i don't see lots of people like Alex in the books maybe when it changes nobody will need to start a discussion about it because it will hve turned so nomal that nobody will care