[ SECRET POST #2015 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2015 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 085 secrets from Secret Submission Post #288.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I might be the only one who's okay with it, but the genderswap has given us some of our best and strongest female characters. Ripley in Aliens was supposed to go to a man. Veronica Mars was originally conceived as a teenage boy. Harry in Harry's Law was originally a man.

I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head (I can't imagine there are many anyway), but so long as you respect the character and write her as a person (which you obviously want to do), then I can't see the problem.

[(Anonymous)]

Toph was originally supposed to be a burly man.

[(Anonymous)]

I can give you another: Cathy Gale, John Steed's partner in "The Avengers" just before Emma Peel. She was actually a substitute for Steed's male partner, whose actor had left the show unexpectedly; rather than rewrite the scripts, they just gave the whole role to Cathy Gale.

[thene]

Lara Croft was a male character in the very earliest parts of the game design process, as was Oerba Yun Fang. I agree, it can work very well and if it does work for you then you should go for it.

[(Anonymous)]

Interestingly, Wiki says that all the parts in Alien were written for a "generic male", but also with the idea that either gender could be cast as the director, et al., saw fit.

[yeahscience]

Yeah, I was coming here to say this. People will criticize, but there are a lot of female characters that originated as men.

(For another, Angelina Jolie's role in "Salt" was originally written as a man and was going to be played by Tom Cruise.)