Or: prison is not the first place Nott imagined she'd find a family, but she isn't complaining. This story follows the development of an unlikely friendship, and the way it saves two people who'd long since decided to give up on the world.
Finding out this was just another case of "a wizard did it" seems to me like it would cheapen that journey. Whatever choice Nott makes in the end, I feel like for that decision to have meaning it's important that she starts from a position where her body is her body and her soul is her soul. With the amount of respect this cast has for under and mis represented peoples, it just doesn't seem like the sort of choice Matt or Sam would make. If she were some other creature who had been transformed, I think that it would undermine the metaphor for Body dysphoria and Transgender Identity issues that Nott seems to represent. Some fans didn't want the theories floating around that Nott was in fact originally a different race to come true for a variety of reasons. Įarly on (especially after episode 19 of campaign 2) fans argued about the direction Nott's story was going, some insisting that she should learn to love her body, instead of looking for a way to change it. It’s been a lot easier for me to relate to Nott’s dysphoria on a metaphoric level–and in general the extent to which her story is so focused on identity and self-hood has been really affirming, and led to a lot of really important conversations. Most of the (very, very few) nonbinary characters I’ve seen don’t really have dysphoria explored in relation to their character. Most trans characters whose dysphoria get explored in-narrative are binary trans people. And I think weirdly that might be a product of the fact that she’s not a trans character. Nott’s dysphoria is much stronger than mine, but she’s also the first character whose dysphoria I’ve been able to relate to. The moment she became explicitly important to me was when we first got her (heavily edited) backstory, and she talked more openly/explicitly about her dysphoria.
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