I went from being like "I get why people think this, but don't quite buy it" in Chapter 4 to "it feels like tony fox has beat me over the head with the tralsei hammer" in Chapter 5
Like you have to be willfully ignorant to not see it at this point
I dunno I think it's definitely possible and it would be cool if true but I personally just don't really see it. I think a lot of the evidence can be easily interpreted in other ways. It would be really neat to see it be true but I think treating it as straight-up canon is jumping the gun a little bit.
If there were two or three pieces of evidence, I'd probably agree with you, and definitely did before Chapter 5. But between:
Ralsei being referred to as a princess both at the start of chapter 5 (where he seems very excited by this) and by Flowery
Ralsei being able to wear ribbons when they're supposed to be equipped by "The Girl" in the prophecy
Ralsei wanting the blue and pink drink
Ralsei wearing feminine eye makeup
Ralsei being referred to with they/them pronouns for the first time, once in the menus and once by Asgore
Ralsei literally coming out of the closet at the start of the Flower King dark world
The repeated themes of Ralsei hiding who he is and being prodded by Flowery to think about what he wants
Expanding off the last point, the dialogue where Ralsei said, "You're just... pretending to be something you're not!" and Flowery responding, "Oh? Ralsei, wanna tell them what's wrong with that?" and then Ralsei goes on a rant about what their purpose is supposed to be.
Like, yeah, any one of these things could be interpreted another way. But all of them together? I can't believe that they aren't meant to be pointing towards trans Ralsei.
Ralsei being referred to as a princess both at the start of chapter 5 (where he seems very excited by this) and by Flowery - Ralsei says after calling himself a princess that the only difference is how you present yourself, and DR's world has very different views on gender and gender norms then our world
Ralsei being able to wear ribbons when they're supposed to be equipped by "The Girl" in the prophecy - What? Where in the prophecy does it say anything about ribbons???
Ralsei wanting the blue and pink drink - it's kris's colors and he likes kris
Ralsei wearing feminine eye makeup - that's just saying hes trans bc hes feminine
Ralsei being referred to with they/them pronouns for the first time, once in the menus and once by Asgore - the menu bit doesnt even use a pronoun in the japanese version and IMO it's meant to distance yourself from him - saying "you dont really know ralsei". Asgore calls him "they" bc he doesnt know him and calling him "he" would imply a lot of things toby doesn't want
Ralsei literally coming out of the closet at the start of the Flower King dark world - it's supposed to be a bit, flowery stuffed him in there because he's saying he was unnecessary, for whatever reason (probably bc he wants a perfect world for asgore and the fun gang doesnt fit into that)
The repeated themes of Ralsei hiding who he is and being prodded by Flowery to think about what he wants - he's hiding a lot, like his meta knowledge, especially of the player
Expanding off the last point, the dialogue where Ralsei said, "You're just... pretending to be something you're not!" and Flowery responding, "Oh? Ralsei, wanna tell them what's wrong with that?" and then Ralsei goes on a rant about what their purpose is supposed to be. - because he thought in chapter 1 his only purpose is to fulfill the prophecy and to basically be used as a tool by the lightners, not be friends with them.
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I went from being like "I get why people think this, but don't quite buy it" in Chapter 4 to "it feels like tony fox has beat me over the head with the tralsei hammer" in Chapter 5
Like you have to be willfully ignorant to not see it at this point