Board Thread:Magnus Chase & the Gods of Asgard/@comment-32364251-20171218232652/@comment-25512094-20180608051004

Restinpieces wrote: first of all, if you guys knew what it was like to be LGBTQ, especially if u knew what it was like to be trans, you would not be saying that about their personality. As someone who is, let me just point out that anytime someone constantly puts me down or uses a DEROGATORY term (no matter the context, a derogatory term is only allowed to be reclaimed by those affected by it, which most of the characters aren't) I'd be in a pretty bad mood ALL the time. Alex has a right to act like this. They've been thrust out of their regular life, forced into some weird ass afterlife, and they have to deal with the stigma that comes with being a child of Loki. I mean, if I were them, I'd be way more vocal about my DISLIKE of everything. Like Laviniak said, having an LGBTQ person as a main character is not only incredibly RARE, it's also very exciting. I for one began loving Rick's books more because of the inclusion! It's an amazingly wonderful addition to this series and I love that Rick Riordan often goes out of his way to include groups of people not regularly represented in media. That's WHY he wrote the Percy Jackson series, to begin with. Also, at this point, I'm sick of seeing straight cis-people and I hope he includes more minorities in his books and continues to be inclusive. That's why they're a pair, that's why so many people want them to be together. It'll be huge growth and it'll represent LGBTQ teens positively in a beloved series.

So Alex is justified in extending violence towards those who would get her pronouns wrong on *accident* or would have no idea about her gender identity? Kinda a mix message, if you ask me,