Help Design an intersex character for an upcoming game!!

[Halollet]

Hello!

I am currently making a video game for the android phone.  It is a classic RPG based in a world of extreme prejudice and segregation.  The heroes are forced to form a band, rise  up and cause a revolution on the corrupt government, earning equality and accpetance for all walks of life.

You can check up on the characters and other things here;
http://zaftiggames.tumblr.com/

One character is intersex and is simply named 'Grey'.

Grey was taken as a baby when he/she was born intersex.  Raised by a evolutionary cult that says intersex are the next step in evolution becuase they have gone past the need for male and female.  He/she wears a ying/yang inspired armour to fight in.  Grey has been brainwashed by the cult to think that he/she is some sort of deity made flesh, and its all he/she has ever known.  Grey is very detached from reailty

However, this story can be totally thrown out because my knowledge of this community and the issues it goes through is very limited.  (I'm sorry if the whole he/she thing is offencive.  I have no clue     )

So if you had a soap box and a captive audience, what would you like to say?

[Maga Girl]

how much gonna cost?

[Halollet]

how much gonna cost?

The game itself?

I'm planning to run an ad in game and then have it downloadable for FREE!

[pebbles]

Intersex is merely a discription towards a series of conditions that disrupt sexual differentiation process.

The differing conditions disrupt the process in differing ways you need to consider whitch condition your character has and that you represent that condition accurately.
AIS can cause a spectrum of different physical states varying from nearly 100% female to 100% male same with CAH 100% female to Mostly male dispite begin entirely different conditions (CAH causing intersexuality in XX indivduals) And AIS causing intersexuality in XY indivduals.

Indivduals whom are intersex don't follow any set pattern in their personal identity or personality much like anyone else with physical difference at birth. it merely discribes a physical attribute much like begin born with a fully functional extra finger it dosen't define who they are even while it might be a part of their personal stories.

They might Identify as male female, Neither or Both, They might feel a need to transition from their birth gender others might not and are happy as they are. For indivdual cases of all of them you should seek out indivduals.

Intersex pepoles stories

This female has Complete Androgen insensitivty syndrome and she discribes her story and the pressures she was put under.

you should investigate their stories.

[Halollet]

Wow... I had no idea that something like AIS even existed.

I found this video
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) Arabic subtitle

And near the end the interviewer asks her, if chromosones don't define gender, then what does?  And her responce is that she doesn't know, when she fills out a form there's a male and female box and she checks the female one.

if chromosones don't define gender, then what does?  Isn't that a doozy of a question? 

Now I'm really confused what to do with that character.... uh boy...

[Arctic Kat]

I'm not familiar with your game, so I'm not sure how much help I can be.

Anyway, your description of Grey reminds me of Terra from Final Fantasy VI. (I will assume you are familiar with that game....)
When Terra is introduced in FFVI, she has no memory of her past and is being mind-controlled by the evil empire. Through the events of the game, she learns who her parents were (her mother was a human, father was an esper...). The empire had killed Terra's parents and kidnapped her as a child.
Final Fantasy VI is a high-concept science fiction / fantasy story, however, it was at its base a story that could be universally understood: it had vengeance against an evil empire.
The moral to Terra's story is up to the audience to determine. It could be taken as an allegory for racial equality or the embracing of one's own deep-seeded fears to attain peace of mind... or whatever. The moral in the story is what makes Terra feel human.

Now, as for your character Grey, things sound kind of shaky.
As I mentioned above, I am not familiar with your game, but there are some questions nagging on my mind:
While your story may involve people fighting against a corrupt government, what moral should I get out of it?
What events in the story will make me empathize with Grey, to make me feel Grey is human?


One thing FFVI has an advantage of is the use of an abstract concept: a character who is half-human, half-esper. Such a plot device is subjective.
However, intersex people really do exist in the real world. A story involving an intersex person fighting for equality will sound rather objective, and I fear it could appeal to a narrow audience.

[Halollet]

Kinda funny that you mentioned FFVI since that's actually the game that inspired me to make my game in the first place!

Comparing Grey to Terra is really interesting, I had to stop and think about that one.

To give you some background on the game, the whole moral of the story is that discrimination against any person, is wrong. 
The main characters in the game are as follows
A closet FA
A confident BBW
A Feedee
A FTM Trans
An insecure SSBBW
A confident BHM/FA
A tall and underweight woman
A dude that's too subtly odd to fit in
A homosexual male
An insecure SSBHM
An FFA
and Grey

The bad guys are call the Royal Order and the seek the perfection of the human race.  And anyone who doesn't fit into what they call perfect is persecued, exiled, or killed.  The way they do that is just an exaggeration of the bigotry that already exists today.

One thing FFVI has an advantage of is the use of an abstract concept: a character who is half-human, half-esper. Such a plot device is subjective.
However, intersex people really do exist in the real world. A story involving an intersex person fighting for equality will sound rather objective, and I fear it could appeal to a narrow audience.

Here's the flip side though.  Making it something that doesn't exist in the real world, means that people can just ignore the morals because that's only for people who are half esper. 
Adding in real life senerio will add that realism that some people might be missing.

This happens, this is what people go through, its wrong to treat them as anything less then a fellow human being.

Know what I mean?

But having Grey not feel human at all and his/her search for what that means, can bring up a lot of questions that most people take for granted or never thought of before.

Answering the question of what does it mean to be human can really re-enforce the whole moral of the game.

[LordKAT]

Too many acronyms. Acronyms have the honor of having multiple meanings and should only be used with people in the same business (or subset of humans).

for example: BBW is big black woman or big beautiful woman
                   FA fur affinity?, food addict?

etc, please define your acronyms

[Halollet]

LoL 

Sorry about that.  But it did remind me a skit on TV where they only talked in Acronyms and its hilariously frustrating to listen to. 

A closet Fat Admirer
A confident Big Beautiful Woman (around 275lbs)
A Feedee (gainer)
A Female-To-Male Transsexual
An insecure Super Sized Big Beautiful woman (around 500lbs)
A confident Big Hansom Man (around 400lbs but tall) and a Fat Admirer
A tall and underweight woman
A dude that's too subtly odd to fit in
A homosexual male
An insecure Super Sized Big Hansom Man (over 600lbs)
An Female Fat Admirer (A woman who likes fat guys)
and Grey

I hope that's better!  I'll answer any question you have if I still didn' do good enough! 

[~RoadToTrista~]

For some reason I think that she should identify as female. I tried to sort it out from that list but some of those characters you didn't give their gender. :3