In the anime Fate/zero: UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS, the hero’s ultimate magic is creating perfect replicas. His enemy (whose magic is an armory of legendary swords) disses him for this, but he wins in a sword-off because a perfect fake IS simply the real thing. Anyway, this is gender
Q: Ada isn’t “sword-off” a weird way to say “swordfight”?
A: no. the armory guy shoots his swords from portals connected to the armory, and the hero is able to counter each one by manifesting perfect fakes and shooting them right back
Q: Ada are you saying trans people are “perfect fakes” of cis people?
A: I’m saying Emiya spent way too long feeling bad for not having what he considered authentic motivations, but once he decided it didn’t matter, it stopped mattering and he became completely unstoppable
Q: Ada are you saying cis people are the self-proclaimed rulers of a limitless trove of magic treasures?
A: look I’m only saying Gil’s downfall was getting way too caught up in his belief that he alone had the right to define what was “real”, and how much that actually mattered

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Cool:
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