Your Fave is Trans: Lake from Infinity Train (Character Analysis)
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
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Lake from Infinity Train, who went by MT at the beginning of her journey, has a lot of story elements that code her as trans. In this video, I analyze the show to take a look at what exactly makes Lake a trans character.
Trans representation in cartoons in seriously lacking. Good thing some of our favorite characters from shows are actually trans, when you take a hard look at them! "Your Fave is Trans" is a series meant to look at beloved cartoon characters that have trans-coded stories, and analyze why they're actually trans.
(Disclaimer: I am not trying to imply that a character I claim is trans was intended to be trans by the creators. I am merely trying to take coded story elements I observe, and compare them to real life experiences that I or others have had as trans people. I am not implying that the things these characters do automatically make them trans, nor am I saying that you have to have all these experiences to be trans. Every trans person experiences their journey differently. I'm merely trying to draw parallels, find my own identity reflected in the characters I love since trans representation in media still has much to be desired, and have a good time. Don't take it too seriously.)
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me, identifying as cis at the time: huh, i wonder why i relate to Lake so hard?
me now: oh
Look don't come at me like this
And that's exactly why representation is important. Thank you for being you, you.
What's is cis again?
@@kathlllensilvasantos6930 people that arent trans/nonbinary
Guess which character led me to watch Infinity Train, huh.
Let's be real, they named them self Lake. That is literally one of the most nonbinary/trans things you can do. lol. It's awesome.
Non-binary person named Lake, can confirm.
She named herself Lake.
@@Boxanadu themself*
@@Woletat nes
@@Woletat I said “nes” as it was a combination of “yes” and “no”. Chill
Guys Lake's story follows them hiding from mirrors/reflections because they hold potential danger. A disphoria alagory could be interpreted.
The idea that other people policing Lake’s identity literally comes from their reflection to attack them feels like that voice in my mind, when I see my reflection, saying ‘if you’re comfortable with your body, you’re not non binary and also you can never be anything but your assigned sex’. But obviously the body dysphoria interpretation rather than social dysphoria is also very valid and more relatable for some trans folks.
Totally agree!
Also I definetly headcanon Lake as nonbinary. When I watched s2 I related to her in a way. Even if Lake's narraitive wasnt meant to be an analogy to being trans, Owen still did a good job making it feel like it is
Honestly it's so on the nose that I wonder if it's intentional
@@erin_3569 me too
I took it as an allegory for being non-binary while also using existentialism as its philosophical themes
"is lake trans?"
they wear a badly cut sleeveless black shirt and have a buzzcut. How is that even a question
So your saying all i have to do to he trans is to dress and look like that
that is stupid that you think like that
@@thebananabeast2322 fuck yeah it is, im stupid as fuck.
@@nightmarejoe the moment you out on a shitty black tank top and buzz you head you get hit by the transgenderification beam. It's true it happened to my cousin
@@data6022 im the one that fires the beam.
Gotta love the beauty of Lake naming themself after the first reflective surface they were able to look into safely, really seeing themself for the very first time (a notably trans coded moment).
Lake fighting so hard to seperate from the false reality of her own self and being blocked off right when she's finally at the cusp of true personhood is probably the most viscerally relatable allegory for being trans I've seen.
"You're not trans because there was another person you used to be without complaint, and that's the person we raised, that's the person we know, and we love you too but at the end of the day we miss her and love her more."
Lake shouting "look at me! *I* am a person! *I* deserve a number" broke me. That's exactly what it feels like.
Yes! That’s exactly how I felt as well for sure
Pessimist brain: "Don't look at the comments, Don't look at the comments, Don't look at the comments, Don't look at the comments."
I think it’s a testament to the Infinity Train fandom that I haven’t actually gotten any comments that were that bad. I’m very grateful for all the kind words that folks have been commenting! Unfortunately, I don’t expect the same for future “Your Fave is Trans” videos I have planned... But we’ll see!
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I mean there’s only 42 dislikes
Throughout the season, I couldn't help but think of Lake as trans.
Personally, I have interpreted the flecs to be a representation of dysphoria (I mean, they invalidate Lake and often appear in mirrors).
There is a point where Mace tells Lake something like the fact that she may have run away from her life to be a reflection of Tulip, but now she is "reflecting" Jesse. I interpreted it to be that she refuses to reflect female stereotypes, but now "dysphoria" tells her that she reflects male stereotypes (so it comes close to non-binarity)
She kills Mace, she "kills the dysphoria", and in the end she escapes from the train and can just do whatever she wants without worrying about what she reflects or not, she is just her own person.
I love this interpretation!
Great video. As another trans person, I also related to much of Lake’s story. When I was first watching season 2 of Infinity Train, I was so convinced that Lake was going to come out as trans by the end that I avoided using pronouns when talking about her. Even if the similarities between Lake’s story and trans people’s life experiences aren’t intentional, I think it’s valuable to have these kind of themes in kids cartoons. Trans kids who watch this show might be able to relate to Lake which could help them with self acceptance, something that I personally know can be difficult sometimes.
Oh my God. I literally thought I was the only one that felt that. For me Lake was so trans coded.
Yeah !
this is such a great analysis! i'm not sure if anyone already pointed it out but i also love to think about the specific name lake picked for themself. during their whole life on the train, mirrors and all other reflective surfaces were a complete danger to them, something they had to escape from all the time. after they leave the train, they don't have to fear the flecs anymore. when lake (person) sees themself reflected on that lake (body of water), that's the first time they get to see their reflection without feeling scared or threaten. the fact that their name, lake, comes from this moment, a moment of FINALLY feeling comfortable and safe in your own reflection, is something that i find brilliant.
another connection I have which is kind of small is when Jesse asks is Lake knows his reflection and she replies "we dont all know eachother." Its like when someone asks "do you know *trans person*" (It doesnt happen often for me but I've been asked that before, and once, someone outed a closeted trans people to me thinking they would be okay with it because I'm trans -which, no. Never do that. You always ask them when who they're okay with knowing first)
You're so right, I can't believe I missed that moment! It's definitely happened to me!
Idk if Lake is really Trans but your analysis DOES make a good point.
I think the argument is that Lake's story serves as an allegory for trans people. Not necessarily that Lake themself is trans
@@loosiegoosie5229 yeah that DOES make a LOT of sense.
Me too I don't think of lake as trans. I just think she was just liberated from literally being someone else
@@timilehyinhussain7963 in a metaphorical kind of way I think that does sound like someone when they transition genders.
@@stitchlover4381 hmmm huh. Never thought of it that way.
Book 2 is my favorite because it truly said ACAB and trans rights
Underrated! Remember me when you’re at 1 mil!
You're too kind, I really appreciate it! Thanks so much for watching! :)
It’s unusual for me to find a good channel that is so early in its life cycle. I am looking forward to watching this channel grow, this was an excellent video essay.
I love Lake an unhealthy amount 🥺
Hey! Loved the video, i had one more argument to add: whenever lake looks into a mirror, a bunch of social norms and voices that tell them they're wrong for existing come out to harass them and ruin their day- right up until they're comfortable with themselves. Sounds like dysphoria to me, chief.
I love this interpretation :)
Little mirror = T patch
The cops could also be dysphoria. They're constantly trying to get Lake to go back and not exist, and they come out of reflective surfaces, especially mirrors.
When the characters get home I kind of want to see how their life goes. One doesn't have a reflection and then the other ones a metal lady.
You could live a relatively normal life without a reflection until the wrong person confuses you for a vampire. Metal skin would have the exact same problem but even quicker as you can't hide your skin.
Anyone notice how many times in season 2 lake is called “girl”? I think it was probably something higher ups wanted so that ppl wouldn’t think lake was non-binary. I think they might’ve also done this bcuz of lake’s kinda implied romance with Jesse. They wanted to make sure everyone knew it was tootallyyy 100% hetero.
honestly this is so true! im enby myself, and watching book two, i kept thinking 'oh my gosh, MT is just- like they have to be trans right?? oh my gods "lake"?? thats- thats such an nonbinary name-'. and its kind of funny actually. i have red hair and glasses and a similar jacket to tulip's and am pretty nerdy and such, and watching the show, my family made a lot of jokes about how similar i look and act to tulip. even living in the midwest and having divorced parents. but tulip is what i look like *now*, being mostly closeted, and i find it kind of funny how personally i relate to lake's experience. not sure if i explained that well, but this is a great video! you raised some other points i hadn't thought of, like how the two worlds represent the gender binary and the gaslighting lake has to deal with (which is sadly a mood).
Yeah same tbh lake was so non-binary coded that I really really hoped she was gonna start using they/them or at least they/she even if it wasn’t a big part in the show lol and I definitely headcannon them using they/them bc I do and I relate to them so much
their name is lake, of course they're trans, do you know any cis people that choose names based on a random thing they see? the only way to make it more obvious is if they chose their name by pulling 3 letters from a Scrabble bag. and yes to hierarchies and cops being the problems for us trans folks.
my name (Mellow) came from one of my friends who said i was squishy like a marshmallow LMAO
@@mellowmelly9258 Adorable and valid!
"do you know any cis people that choose names based on a random thing they see?"
In all honesty, this is how a huge portion of English names seem to me. In my country, it's impossible to register a name that is a common noun (except a literal handful of those that already have a long tradition of being used as names), while in several English-speaking countries it seems to be not only allowed but widely accepted. I really can't feel any difference between "Lake" and "Tulip".
@@bialynia fair enough.
My name means grain of sunshine. 👋hi
"Do reflections go to the bathroom?" that one hit hard, girl.
I relate to this a lot, the personal questions, the gas-lighting. And a bunch of people see me as some disgusting creature. I don't want to have jokes about how "the all boys private schools have people who're gay, just go there" and the "I know why you're gay, it's because you're uncle touched you." I just want to be seen as an actual person to people.
I always forget but I actually stole my name from lake lmao, I identified with lake so much and immediately they became a comfort character. Once I realized I was non-binary I knew I wanted a new name but was struggling, my friend brought up lake in a conversation when I was thinking about it and since then that’s what I’ve gone by. I’ve always head cannoned them as nb and I loved this video so much thank you.
you're literally so underrated! I cant wait to watch this channel grow into something even more incredible! 💕
You know looking back on it i can see why I loved Lake so much lol. Great video by the way, I really liked how you told some of your own stories I know stuff like that can be intimidating but it really added a lot! Keep up the great work^^
You were talking about a moment that resonated with you and said “that moment is this” and IT CUT TO AN AD OF A MAN DANCING IN THE SHOWER??? IT WAS SUCH A SRS MOMENT TOOO WKSKD
hlfjaldfja i can't control the ads on this video because they flagged it for copyright ):
Love your channel! Glad to see this analysis.
Lake is actually a very meaningful name for the character. It represents the first time in her life that she is free and doesn't have to worry about the train and what it could do to her. Represents the moment where she achieved her goal to be free from the train.
How does this have so few views? It’s really good and insightful. Thanks fir covering Lake, she’s my favorite Infinity Train character
I love this video and I love Lake, your head canon makes so much sense and it was something I was thinking of when watching Book 2. Great job!
great video! would love to see this as a series!
okay, cool. glad somebody finally made a video essay about this. for a while i thought i was gonna have to learn how to make them so i could do it myself
I think the ending also has a really good point in that it has lake accept they are reflective. As in, there are many things she can change about her life, but there are some things she cannot. By accepting the fact she is reflective instead of trying to ignore it she reflects jessie's number and thus breaks the catch 22 one-one was locked in.
Please keep doing videos, you’re amazing
Infinity Trans
LOL how has no one made this joke before? 😂
Mate, I really appreciate the efficiency you have in the videos and your avatar. It really shows that the script was written with each section based on a different part of the show and easier to put effort and the viewer's focus on your point.
These are some really interesting topics and I look forward to where you go. Are there any other shows you've considered making videos on?
Also *TrainsGender*
I've got a few in mind!
When I first watched this show, I knew I really liked the second book more than the other two (though they’re all wonderful), but I could never put my finger on why.
And then a few weeks later, I started questioning if I was trans. Go figure.
I really enjoyed this analysis
Curiously... this could mean Lake ends being... nature.
Tho nature IS a female Symbol.
(& this Probably IS just a coincidence... But theres Also the "Lady of the LAKE" in Arthurian literature)
Something that I only realized recently-
Another allegory in the show is that the train, while it represents different things at different times, also represents Lake’s home. They’re escaping an abusive household. One that would have gotten them killed if they didn’t, literally, have the helping hand of a friend who WANTED to help them escape. Who offered them a haven from the torture of where they came from.
It’s also not like getting off the train means Lake isn’t gonna have problems- it’s just a different, probably less violent set of problems. Like when Jesse’s little brother ogles them.
The Flecks represent the cops, an abusive/controlling family, but also the inner demons of trans people who, if they’re not able to get out of a bad situation in time… never get out of that situation.
Not all, and it’s implied none, of the other “slivers” were able to escape the train. (Why else would the flecks exist if there haven’t been others?). They died running from the flecks. *Many of us* have died running from the flecks.
I totally agree with lake being nonbinary! All of these points are so true and when I first watched book 2 I couldn’t help but to love lake and heavily identify my nb self onto!! I love lake sm and I’m glad lake picked a name for themselves! And can live a life where they don’t have to be someone they aren’t anymore and not only that but randomly I do wonder what their life will be like on earth with Jesse and what jesses family might think of them? Or what would they do on earth!?
Characters I headcannon as trans: Dipper (Gravity Falls), Lars (Steven Universe), Bakugo (Boku No Hero Academia) n Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom) as trans guys, Pidge (Voltron) as a trans girl and those are just the ones with compeling argument and not me projecting
“hopefully 2021 is the year we’ll get real trans representation in a cartoon”
raine whispers: ✅
Thank you !
I'm happy to see another trans person relate to lake in the way I did I mean come on lake was MEANT to be trans
Someone linked your video bellow one of mine and I'm glad they did I'm looking forward to see more content from you
Much love 💖
Hell yeah, and thanks so much for watching! I also just read your analysis from your video description, and I love the idea of the Flecs as a personification of dysphoria, I didn't even think of that, but it makes a lot of sense! Also, if you like podcasts, the Overly Animated Podcast did an episode on Book 2 of Infinity Train, and one of the hosts is a trans woman and she talks about how she also related to Lake! I recommend it!
@@OmgItsKavi Thanks ! I'll go watch it 😉
Oh, is this a cool underrated chanel?
Srsly you deserve more subs.
I LOVE THIS!!!
Please make more “your fav is trans” for other series
I BEG OF YOU!!!
I think Mettaton from Undertale would be a great fit for this series
Would that be transmasc or transfem? It's just my personal opinion, but I don't think Mettaton is transfem, because he seems pretty confident and self assured in being male. He also shows that you can be feminine and still be a man, because what you like doesn't determine your gender :)
That's just my opinion though, so it's fine if you disagree.
Lovely video. I've recently begun questioning my gender and whether or not I'm NB, and in retrospect maybe that's why I felt so strongly about the second season and Lake as a character.
Liked and subscribed
Love that this video is getting recommend now-it's a good video! With Y'know, Lake's character actually helped me realize that I wasn't cis, and I can't thank Infinity Train enough for that
Honestly all this is really convincing me to go watch it! I dont care much about spoilers haha.
Really really good video, ive subscribed!! Youve got super high video quality and not many subscribers. Pretty dang criminal if you ask me!
Ayy Homestuck
Heck yeah
I cried my face off cause of her\their repeatability in book 2, such shame it's so hard to get more direct rep. but I'm glad we have this anyway. I'm quite early on my transition journey and some scenes were so viscerally personal it was almost freaky, but it's nice knowing you're not alone. The first ep. when they got the haircut I was like "That's an enby icon wtf"
I'd wanna mention some nice detail and that's the magnet mirror Tulip puts on Lake. Many trans people have to maintain hormones since their bodies don't naturally make them, in some cases through hormone patches. In this case, the magnets work as a way to avoid Lake to get trapped again, and he makes sure this are always with them at all times which can be an allegory of trying to avoid the biological hormones to kick in.
Besides, he goes into a radical change, from looking girly with long hair and skirts to making a punk themed outfit and completely shaving his hair. Before, I could at least see him as a girl, but after the style change it's hard to remember that he remains being a girl in the series
Nice, I like it. Thanks for watching!
first 10 seconds: shaves off hair, rips off sleeves, wears boots, is metallic
I love her already 😲
This is really interesting! Especially since I've never seen a single full episode of this show before-
Now I REALLY wanna watch it.
This video was really good, I didn't fully get the Lake is tran's thing (An if I'm being honest its still a little weird with the mirror & prime world stuff) and the video helped me get it a bit better. Though one small criticism (Bedside's a few weird thing's of the script) is that the color of text you used during the disclaimer at the beginning blend's in to the background in a few places making part's of it unreadable, the majority of it is readable but if you could use a more contrasting text color in the future that would be really appreciated.
Please make more of these! This is so well-done and I didn't even realise they coded Lake as Trans until I watched this video! WE NEED MORE CONTENT LIKE THIS! ;w;
People really be writing a whole 100,000 word paragraph just to say Lake isn't trans and it doesn't even make sense in the end
Please PLEASE support the show on HBO Max if you can!! It's so good
its amazinggg
6:30 i really like this part, youre awesome :o
You have a new subscriber now.
Amazing video!!
I'm non binary and I legit related to her sooo much
When you said “and that moment is this” when talking about a Lake moment that you resonated with, an ad with a golden retriever in a window with Dolly Parton’s And I Will Always Love You started and I got very confused
HGSHDJFHL I just became approved to be monitized like yesterday this is the funniest thing to me 😂 I gotta figure out how to turn off mid-roll ads lollll
These are pretty cool things to learn
A suggestion for the series: Kakashi from Naruto. It's hard to explain but he just kind of vibes as a trans guy to me for some reason? And a lot of things he does seem very not-cis :))
I don’t like the idea of my reflection seeing and judging what I do
How come your channel is so small? It deserves more love
I went through it thinking that mt/lake was racial minority coded, but this makes sense as well. V good vid :)
Okay first of all, Lake is easily one of my favorite characters of all time and her arc is easily one of the most thoroughly trans-coded ones I've ever seen. It makes my enby ass so freaking happy.
Second of all, with regards to the last note, from what I've heard there may be an animated adaptation of this amazing webcomic called "Magical Boy" that's centered around a trans protagonist so we may very well get a series that outright states it's a trans-centered story
Thank you for sharing this! I knew next to nothing about the series when I first watched it, but I immediately clocked (ha) that Lake's story was a trans allegory, and experiencing Lake's journey actually played a small part in me coming to terms with the fact that I'm also trans. It's so gratifying to see other queer folk interacting with this truly special story and relaying their own experiences, so thank you for that.
I do disagree with one thing in particular: I don't see Mace's argument as intentionally manipulative / gaslighting. Yes, he's trying to attack her sense of reality, but my read is that's because he has completely dedicated himself to the disinvestment of ALL reflections' identities. Like a cis person vehemently lashing out against trans/nb folk for simply existing, Mace sees the existence of someone like Lake as inherently absurd because her existence threatens his ideological project and the rigid segmentation of reflections from primes.
Everything he says about the train and the circumstances of her emergence from Tulip are completely true, the difference comes from a fundamental philosophical disagreement on the very nature of personhood: Mace denies Lake's in exactly the same way that he denies his own, because to do otherwise would be to challenge his entire world view and the order it provides (the order from which he benefits) from the bottom up. If Lake has to challenge the entire world to validate her existence, then that's what she's going to do.
Great points. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I would love to watch the show but I'm not in th USA and can't access it because of it (+I'm minor) is there any other way to support the show?
Unfortunately HBO Max makes it difficult to support the show 😭 The only thing I can think of is to use a VPN (there are free ones!) to make it seem like you’re in the US and ask a friend to borrow their log in? HBO Max seriously needs to get it together!
@@OmgItsKavi agreed. I WISH I could support it officially myself, but there’s currently no official way to watch it outside America 😅
I headcanon Perfuma from SPOP as trans.
Amazing video! I fully believe that Lake is non-binary and your video solidified that notion further with excellent analysis. I'd love to see you do a 'Your Fave is Trans' episode on Penny Polendina from RWBY and Steven Universe. Both have strong trans allegories going on.
My headcanon was that Lake is nonbinary, but your point is also very fitting for the character. Really nice video ngl, subscribing
Nonbinary people are also trans.
@@raptorofwar4415 yes they can be trans but lake is specially non binary because the creator has said that they wanted to make a season with a protagonist who is gender less/non binary
@@steve6997 Technically, being trans is defined any identity where you don't identify as your AGAB, but some NB people don't identify as trans and that's ok.
@@raptorofwar4415 yea I agree but I’m pretty sure lake is non binary because the creator of infinity train said he wanted to make a season with a gender less/ non binary character and that turned out to be season 2
9:05 I felt like that was poking fun at the people who keep asking medical/mechanical/psych questions of the first interesting person they met. Especially as freshly cracked eggs, interesting people know what they experience. They know the what, they are often still looking into the why and how.
SO happy I found this video
I think Lake was always my favourite character
I'm in my period of not having a name and I don't know how to try out new ones
For me, I would ask a few close friends that I trusted to try out a name for me for a while. I was also in a trans support group for a while and that was a really great space to try out names and pronouns. I highly recommend looking to see if your school or local LGBT+ centers have support groups, and a lot of them are likely virtual right now too!
I'm very cis, so maybe I'm not seeing something, but I felt that if Lake is a trans person struggling with their identity (and against the world that makes it hard for them) then Mace isn't a cis in this metaphor but rather a trans with highly internalised transphobia. Perhaps that's because even before I've come across the "Lake is trans" interpretation (which I love but wasn't able to see myself upon first watching) and saw the whole mirror world subplot in more general terms, the flex police seemed to represent those people that are part of the oppressed group but willingly help keep the oppression going in exchange for some minor privileges and eventually believe that the system is right.
I mean flex police weren't actually reflecting anybody any more. They were in between the mirror world and the prime world in the sense that they were their own persons, but their independence was limited and sanctioned by the powers that be. So in other words they were allowed a little bit of freedom in exchange for keeping everybody else in line.
This is something that happens a lot in the real world. People often compromise because defying the system is bound to come at a great personal cost and they'd rather have a little bit than risk everything in a rigged game. And accepting the way the world works as inevitable and therefore fair in some twisted way is also a common coping mechanism.
Anyway, I've often come across people that naturally should be allies but chose to side with an oppressor because it's easier that way. For me, Mace and Sieve were all the women who slut-shame or tomboy-shame other women; all the queer folks who criticize other queer folks for "flaunting it"; all the people whose ethnicity is marginalised and who complain about those who refuse to let go of their culture and customs; all the fat people who make fun of those even fatter; all the people with unusual hobby putting down those for whom it's a real passion etc. etc. etc.
But perhaps that doesn't translate very well onto the trans metaphor?
i never knew why i loved lake so much, it makes so much sense now XD since i've come to terms with my own gender
also i share a lot of personality traits with lake since i am also a hot head lol
Lake is a pretty cool character 🙂
Legit after I watched season 2 I was convinced Lake was a trans guy, too much of that shit hit too close.
I thought that the mirror police were supposed to be similar to Agent Smith from The Matrix, which itself has been confirmed to be a trans allegory. Even if they weren't supposed to be all that similar, pretty neat coincidence!
I love that connection!
remember me, love your content
The main reason i started watching this show was for Lake, and Ryan and Min-gi. I don't know if it'll ever be entirely clear that these characters were written to be queer, but there are too many obvious parallels for it to be not true. As someone who is still questioning their identity, Lake's story really resonates with me. Writing the journey of a trans character, especially through a metaphor, is a tricky thing but the writers of Infinity Train absolutely nailed it!
You could talk about the popular fan headcanon that Danny Phantom is FtM trans if you’re going to be doing more cartoon characters. I normally prefer sticking to canon when it comes to sexualities and gender identities, but Danny as a trans boy is super interesting and I actually like that headcanon a lot.
From my understanding, we can decide her identity for ourselves. I guess they weren’t exactly allowed to make it clear🤔 I’m not really sure 😅 but I guess there are hints🤷♀️
Note: sorry I just realised you mentioned it in the video my bad😅
It seems like Lake and her story are just a huge allegory for being trans.
Some book series with Trans characters are the Bone Witch Trilogy by Rin Chupeco and the Dragoneye Reborn Series by Alison Goodman.
That’s awesome, thanks for sharing!
From a trans man, thank you for talking about this from a trans perspective. Lake's journey resonated with me and made me admittedly weepy. Glad others saw it too.
Ok but Kipo tho Asher(I think was their name it’s been a while since I’ve seen it)
Yes that’s the character’s name
The first time I watched season 2 I thought Lake had told Jesse their name was "Empty" instead of "M.T."
I was fucking devastated
lmfao
@@OmgItsKavi don´t laugh at my pain xD
No lake is a lake..a walking talking lake
There were quite a few moments during the show that I felt the same way as Lake. It’s not easy for cis people to understand trans issues, not because they don’t care, but because the whole idea of being trans is foreign to cis people. It’s a kind of thing most people never experience. I’m a fairly binary trans person, and I’m still learning.
I think the creators did a great job representing what it’s like to be trans, and I think you did a great job on this video. Keep up the great work! ^-^
16:08 isn’t raine from the owl house also non-binary?