Board Thread:Magnus Chase & the Gods of Asgard/@comment-32364251-20171218232652/@comment-25512094-20181127211041

AstralAlignment wrote: I am a fan of Alex, but I do see where everyone is coming from. I know that I'm a big fan of Alex because he/she is like me personality-wise. I can concur that Alex's personality does come from abuse and neglect from both the people around her and the people who raised her, for a lot of people who do have abusive/neglective pasts are a bit rude, demeaning, and hypocritical, but they never mean to be. But it is clear that Alex didn't have much character development, for she/he was introduced as a love interest and she didn't ever grow too much out of her negative tendencies, and while I do like Magnus and Alex being together, I also hate the fact that Magnus is scared of her/him, as shown in some of his inner commentaries. Yet if Rick continues to write Alex, I hope that he'll give her/him some more development, for Alex didn't change too much throughout the story. All written characters are like a newly found mineral, in this example I'll use diamond, you have to polish the diamond once it's found to get to the beauty within, and in this scenario, Alex still has time to be polished, and maybe Rick will make his/her character more of a developed character rather than a love interest for Magnus and a somewhat misrepresented voice for the genderfluid people out there. I do love his/her character and the fact that she/he is vocal about the fact that she/he's genderfluid, but as users have pointed out above, a person who is genderfluid does not always base their preferences in modern day culture on their genderfluid nature. They all have different views, and in this case, I can see that Alex was fond of such books because it gave him/her a character or view to relate to and to make sure that he/she doesn't feel alone, because, in a world where she/he is pitied for her/his nature, Alex just wanted something or someone to relate to.

I apologize if I did insult anyone with this rant, I am still learning about the LGBTQ+ community (for I recently realized that I was bi) and I don't wish to harm anyone with my words in any way shape or form.

As mentioned before we understand why Alex is the way she/he is, but first impressions are everything:People want to make a good impression on others because it matters in the long run of things as a poor impression sets the wrong idea.

Alex was introduced to the readers as a being snarky and rude having no charm, wit, or entertainment value for the reader to like and peg her as a likable character for them to give a crap about in the entire narrative:Alex wants to inflict violence on people who would have no idea of her transgender and genderfluid identity, this isn’t towards just bigots or those who don’t believe such things it’s made clear that EVERYONE would be on her chopping block regardless.

In the story Alex treats everyone like garbage, demeans and insults them if they aren’t even mean to her, while if someone someone called her a argr she would be ready to bring bodily harm showing that she can’t take being called a bad name, but expects others to do so...Doesn’t help that EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONEtook it on the chin with no problems when in reality someone would be annoyed and clap back at Alex.