I have some members of my Guild that are trans - if you like I can reach out to them and see if they are willing to discuss this.
I certainly think the debate here would benefit from hearing their perspective on what has been implemented and what more they’d like to see - and what they’d want the game to avoid. More importantly, I’m sure Larian would benefit from hearing their views. But then if they’re already members of your guild they might have already provided that feedback via other routes, and I’d not want to put anyone out for the sake of educating a few strangers on the internet. But if any of them could be bothered to share a few thoughts on what Larian have and haven’t done then I for one would appreciate it.
However, I was also thinking about Ellie from the last of Us Show played by Bella Ramsey. Bella identifies as non-binary and she plays Ellie that way. If you notice her stance and posture is very masculine, she takes up space, she stands with her legs apart, she hunches her back and drops her shoulders forward. There is more, but that's the kind of stuff I caught - she just has a very masculine way of moving and positioning herself. It would be amazing if that could also be part of it.
I can see what you’re saying here but I also think it’s the kind of thing that Larian would have to be very careful about. For example,
why might taking up space appear masculine to us? Might that be because of gender conditioning in our societies that consciously or unconsciously encourages women not to assert themselves physically? And if so, would that carry over into a world which doesn’t have the same gender norms? Done wrongly, having non female identifying characters in the game adopt a posture we’d view as masculine could possibly be perceived as perpetuating unhealthy gender stereotypes. But I also agree that more options for posture and gait could really help bring our characters to life, and as long as those options weren’t locked to gender identity then that would probably avoid potential issues. I know I would want the option to pick a more confident, swaggering pose for a cis female character if I wanted. And possibly a more contained one for a cis male, though admittedly my first thought was the former as I do more frequently play female characters.
