[ SECRET POST #2361 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2361 ⌋

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

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02.
[Hetalia]


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03.
[Charles Coulson (and indirectly, Avengers)]


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04.
[No. 6]


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05.
[Leto Brothers]


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06.
[Harry Potter]


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07.
[Xiaolin Showdown/Xiaolin Chronicles]


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08.
["Zombies Took My Daughter"]


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09.
[Wolf's Rain]


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10.
[The Croods]


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11.
[Phineas and Ferb]


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12.
[Ouran High School Host Club]


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13.
[Hetalia]


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14.
[The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug]


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15.
[Starsky and Hutch]


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16.
[Once Upon a Time]


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17.
[Hannibal]


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18.
[Zoo Tycoon]


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19.
[Monty Python]


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20.
[Hannibal]


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21.
[Teen Wolf]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #336.
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 don't think you're quite considering the fact that they live in a place where being a girl, living on your own, will get you raped, killed, or raped and then killed.

The reveal happening because they were nearly raped was, yes, a bit of a throwaway, but...what was Inukashi's other choice?

We had the choice between pretty bland streetrat boy that's been done a thousand times or a girl living on her own in dangerous territory doing everything she can to keep her gender a secret to hopefully fend off some of the rapists.

The latter's more mold-breaking and appropriate here.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe I've just read and seen too many things (in the genres I go for) where "a girl living on her own in dangerous territory doing everything she can to keep her gender a secret to hopefully fend off some of the rapists" is, in fact, a trope, but I don't find that groundbreaking at all. And that aside, I also have to respectfully disagree that being secretly a girl because rape is the only thing that keeps Inukashi from being a bland street rat type that's been done. But, just my own perceptions.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think you're quite considering the fact that they live in a place where being a girl, living on your own, will get you raped, killed, or raped and then killed.

To be fair, I think this is an issue most kids on the street in a place that would face regardless of gender.

What's interesting to me is the sense of gender that Inukashi does seem to display, and how if she is a girl, it does veer off into a stereotypical kind of sensitivity and 'motherly instinct' that seems separate from what she would have simply picked up from the dogs.

Because the way her personality does veer off towards being more sensitive than she lets on, and more family oriented thanks to the dogs, would also be a fitting subversion of the usual cheeky street-rat trope if she were a boy, too.

I mean, I agree with you fundamentally. Inukashi is a smart kid who lives by her brains and her instincts, and she's definitely keen enough to pick all this stuff up. I just think it's interesting both ways.

/anon who replied above you

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, you've eloquently stated a lot of what I was thinking of when I wrote my response, e.g. why using fear of rape to show that a character is female bothers me, and the aversions of the typical "street-rat trope" that are there regardless of whatever gender Inukashi is.