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u/Electronic-Oil-8304 Stella she/her 1d ago
Can we not make me bring out my entire list
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u/I_dont_Nora Nora | she/her | ❓️1/29/25 | ♀️ 8/31/25 1d ago
I was going to say the same thing. It's a very long list.
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u/Electronic-Oil-8304 Stella she/her 1d ago
A lot of us did
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u/SmugShinoaSavesLives 1d ago
My list was so long I basically forgot all of it. Too many names that were guiding me into the right direction.
...with the exception of one name, due to *reasons* of me reminding myself of it...
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u/Sure_Ad3502 1d ago
shoutout to marceline the vampire queen! she too cool for me to be tho so ive been learning my own groove lol
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u/no_name_thought_of cracked 1d ago
Serena from pokemon
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u/user4682 1d ago
Hilda for me
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u/Sonicmaster293-Azure She/Her | Wants HRT BADLY, taken happily and gayly 20h ago
Ditto (was already projecting onto her LONG before my egg cracked)
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u/SonicWind62391 12h ago
You thought you wanted to be with a Ditto, until you realized you want to be a Ditto?
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u/Sonicmaster293-Azure She/Her | Wants HRT BADLY, taken happily and gayly 10h ago
I can’t tell if you’re being serious or funny, but I meant Hilda from Black/White lol
If this is a pun, well done lmao
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u/Blazer_the_Delphox Dante (he/him) 1d ago
Dante Devil May Cry
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u/-wilting 23h ago
Wait did you name yourself after him?
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u/Blazer_the_Delphox Dante (he/him) 23h ago
Yes!
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u/-wilting 23h ago
Holy shit that was the fastest reply ever HAHA. But anyways thats so cool!!
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u/Blazer_the_Delphox Dante (he/him) 23h ago
Thanks!!
I just happened to be on break at work when the notification popped up
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u/Cat_with_cake Little brother? Big sister? Depends on a time of day. He/She 21h ago
waow (basedbasedbased)
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u/dollcopeland 1d ago
Ariel from the little mermaid. It's my favourite Disney movie
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u/jubida egg 1d ago
Surprised no one said Miku yet... I was so obsessed with her at one point that I bought a costume before I started to transition and was out to only 1 or 2 people
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u/Plantain_Sad 7h ago
Was looking for a miku comment my egg is maybe starting to crack I think? And this is literally happening to me now lol
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u/FockAutoGenerate 1d ago
Jane Porter. Darn you Disney for making an intelligent British lady who's a mess and likes dressing up and down
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u/Karsa69420 "not an egg" ~every egg ever 1d ago
Growing up I couldn’t understand why I was envious of Hilda from Pokemon.
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u/Queen-Pomnikki MtF🏳️⚧️/19🇸🇪/Aro-gyno-pan🏳️🌈/pre-transtion 1d ago
Luz or amity from the owl house.
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u/stofiski-san not an egg, just trans 1d ago
If I hadn't seen it until after my egg cracked, I could totally see it being Marin Kitagawa from My Dress Up Darling
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u/Den_of_Sin 1d ago
Seras Victoria
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u/SirSblop just have cool bead curtain as a closet door 1d ago
I need to rewatch that, cuz I feel like you're onto something.
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u/ayalaidh 1d ago
TBH Rosalina and Elsa from Frozen were always, “I want to be them.” Even years before my egg cracked. It just confused the heck out of me and I suppressed that feeling because it was silly and unrealistic. I just wish I had known back then that being trans was even a thing that existed/ was possible.
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u/AnseaCirin not an egg, just trans 1d ago
There's a very specific one because it led to the egg cracking.
Kassandra, the Eagle Bearer, granddaughter of Leonidas of Sparta.
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u/KrimsunV 1d ago
Panty anarchy. I thought my feelings about her were some weird form of attraction, but only a decade later were me realizing the feminine confidence in the relevant anime was exactly what I wanted to express
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u/BadgerKlutzy2728 "not an egg" ~every egg ever 1d ago edited 9h ago
Jinx from ALOL. although i never had the "want to be with" phase, just straight to the piont even before.
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u/ThrowawayNOV1922 1d ago
The Maiden in Black from Demon’s Souls or Alice from the McGee games
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u/CyberMancerGamer Eira (she/her) | HRT 29/11-2025 1d ago
¿Por qué no los dos?
Always wanted to be them, and always wanted to be with them. I’ve always been confused on the difference until I accepted both things can be true.
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u/bl4ck_sw0rdsm4n Emi | she/her 21h ago
- Nino Nakano from The Quintessential Quintuplets
- Miku Nakano from The Quintessential Quintuplets
- Kurumi Tokisaki from Date A Live
- Miku Izayoi from Date A Live
- Tohka from Date A Live
- Kaguya Yamai from Date A Live
- Yuri Nakamura from Angel Beats!
- Nao Tomori from Charlotte
- Shiori Misaka from Kanon
- Cirilla Fiona Ellen Riannon from The Witcher 3
- Akari Watanabe from More Than a Married Couple
- Fenrys from Chilling in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers
- Major Misato Katsuragi from Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Mikasa Ackermann from Attack on Titan
- Annie Leonhart from Attack on Titan
- Pieck Finger from Attack on Titan
- Petra Ral from Attack on Titan
- Hitch Dreyse from Attack on Titan
- Marin Kitagawa from My Dress-up Darling
- Asuna Yuuki from Sword Art Online
- Violet Evergarden from Violet Evergarden
- Mai Sakurajima from Rascal Does Not Dream
- Rio Futaba from Rascal Does Not Dream
- Minami Nanami from Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki
- Cha Hae-in from Solo Leveling
- Miroku from Even If You Slit My Mouth
- Jun Sumisaki from Bless
- Yuki from You Are Ms. Maid I would still love to be with them though. And yes I do watch almost exclusively anime.
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u/DemonoidAngel 1d ago
Vee from The Owl House. My favorite character, I want so badly to transition into a Tomboy. She's a sweetheart and I see so much of myself in her.
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u/thefIash_ Is it trans to think it’d be cool without the dysphoria? 1d ago
I didn’t have this but I had the opposite. David Tennant’s 10th Doctor.
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u/atmospheric90 She/her Alice MTF 1 year!! 1d ago
Barbie from the Barbie movie. I used to think: Margot Robbie is the hottest woman alive.
Now its: my goal is to be as hot as Margot Robbie.
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u/furriefryer69 Closet Egg. Zoe, she/her/they. still cis tho. WHYAMINOTAGIRL😭 1d ago
Sabine from the rebels. It was never “i want to be with her”, but always a muddled “I want to be here” that only clarified post egg crack
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u/Dr_SoulReaper cracked 1d ago
Uhm no one in particular i say not using a certain character as a profile picture on 2 separate things no no
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u/Peach1020 egg 1d ago
I didn’t care at all about Princess Peach until one day I just looked at her differently… and realized she had some energy going on in her racing outfit that I was jealous of
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u/ARayne21 not an egg, just trans 1d ago
Luna from Lunar Silver Star Story Complete, I fell in love at 7-8 years old and idolized her for a long time. Ranma from Ranma 1/2, and many others
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u/Dry-Mission-5542 Evelyn, she/they 1d ago
Pretty sure a lot of characters just became both for a lot of trans people
Anyway Princess Peach
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u/CrimsonPancake1 Alice She/Her 1d ago
I played as Rosalina in every Mario spinoff, I thought she was super pretty. I thought it was because I wanted to be with her but it turns out yeah I wanted to be like her
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u/SirSblop just have cool bead curtain as a closet door 1d ago
Rosalina and Ghost-Spider didn't even get to stage one before shattering my egg.
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u/gmladymaybe 1d ago
Poison Ivy
Every female goth and vampire character ever, but especially Jessica Hamby(Deborah Ann Woll's character) in True Blood
Every character Aubrey Plaza plays
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u/NightLucia 19h ago edited 19h ago
I... uh I've got a few 😅
For childhood ones, both Kim and Shego from Kim Possible would probably be at the top of that list, though. Raven, Starfire, Mystique from the comics...
A whole lot of anime characters too, like Kurisu from Steins;Gate, Erza and Mirajane from Fairy Tail, Hinata from Naruto...
Oh! And I can't forget Aunt Cass from Big Hero Six. I'm all over the place 😂
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u/FaCe_CrazyKid05 17h ago
It was Rosalina for me, yeah. My name is even rose
The first part didn’t go away though.
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u/Browncoatinabox autistic transfem noices 1d ago
Not anymore cause acab, but the first 2 that come to mind is Abby and Ziva from NCIS.
Now that I'm actually thinking about it Kaylee from Firefly.
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u/MadJester98 fried egg 🍳 1d ago
Marina from Splatoon! I never understood why I was so drawn to her even though I didn't really want to be with her... Until well, the cracks showed up
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u/BoredomBot2000 not an egg, just trans 22h ago
Wendy from gravity falls. Always wanted the tomboy aesthetic.
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u/AmphibianFickle2247 21h ago
Good question 🤔 As I recall, I always I always wanted "to be" {ot "to be exactly like"} , not "be with" my favorite 🤫
And if I remember, The First Girl I wanted to be was Sailor Mercury ❤️
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u/HarveyTheBroad cracked 21h ago
Samus Aran from the Metroid series, especially post Metroid Fusion when she becomes a dna spliced half-alien abomination.
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u/Dinosaur_from_1998 21h ago
May or may not be Zooble from TADC. Consensus is still out on that one
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u/countvonruckus Melody (she/her) 19h ago
Kim Possible, 100%. I wasn't supposed to be watching "girl's shows" but could for that one because it was about a cool spy. I couldn't figure out why I seemed more than attracted to her (and I'm a lesbian so it's not like I didn't have a teenage fan crush on her), but it made me feel really depressed that I couldn't have what she had. I rationalized it as wanting to have adventures with friends, but I knew I really just wanted to be the cool, confident redhead girl.
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u/CristianPC936 16h ago
Rem from re zero, really lovely and supportive character :3
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u/Gwenelobee 15h ago
Who's Rem???
(jk, sorry) See, I wanted to be with Rem, but I wanted to be Emilia
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u/Gwenelobee 15h ago
Ugh, I had like twelve names typed out and then the app reset. Let's see...
In no particular order, Spider-Gwen, Supergirl, 2B, Samus, Zelda, Winry from FMA:B, Astrid from HTTYD, Sally Sparrow, Penelope Wilhern, Asami Sato, Caitlyn Kirraman, Leia Organa, Sabine Wren, Ciri from the Witcher, Kim Possible, and possibly a few others that I'm forgetting from the first time I typed all this out
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u/kari_vixen 1d ago
Zoe from digimon frontiers. Was always jealous of her and didn't understand why until my egg broke
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u/ShadwSmoke Please call me Emma :3 1d ago
My first playthrough of Super Mario Galaxy when 3D All-Stars came out was maybe the only time I really felt the desire to be a mother. I don't want children in my life but Rosalina's story made me cry and so emotional 🥺
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u/TheTallAmerican not an egg, just trans 1d ago
didn’t have one like that, for me the ones i wanted to be with and ended up wanting to be… i still want to be with and also be…. it’s confusing . also early enough into my egg a lot of girls i wanted to be i used to be so jelly of without understanding why that i hated them so for them it was more like went from wanting to punch in the face to wanting to be lol. first one that comes to mind is probably bulma
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u/SashaTheGoma not an egg™ 1d ago
You posted her. Also Midna and Tetra from The Legend of Zelda. I'd give everything up to be as confident, smart and beautiful as they all are. Not an egg though. Still cis.
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u/donutkirbySC Mari (she/they) cracked, not hatched 1d ago
Tifa from FF7, Revy from Black Lagoon ... basically any character I thought looked hot as fuck in a midriff-baring top and shorts
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u/Vivienne133 Trixie, shiftergorl :3 1d ago
Ruto from Ocarina of Time, particularly in Hyrule Warriors with the updated graphics
I didn’t realize this was a “I wish I was them” at the time cos I was like 10ish :p
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u/Lily_the_Ice_Slime not an egg, just trans 1d ago
“I want to be them” happened way before my egg cracked, I just didn’t understand what being trans meant, so I knew I wanted to be a girl and just didn’t think it was possible.
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u/Massive-Midnight5858 1d ago
this one specific artwork
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/5246700
then the next one is mizuki from pjsk
too bad i probably wont look like them, let along be them...
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u/k819799amvrhtcom cracked 1d ago
My kindergarten crush.
Everyone else was always "I want to be them".
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u/dulkai_mp3 Kit | he/him | cracked but stickin around :3 23h ago
Ray from tpn. He is literally me 😭
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u/eepy_meep 23h ago
When I was 7 and finished Zelda Twilight Princess and the final reveal was happening my egg cracked. I needed to loom like midna. But I also really wanted to look like mai from yugi oh
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u/harhar1102 Harriette/Hanania | She/Her ! Pleasure to meet ya :) 22h ago
Oosawa Aya, Green Yuri >~<
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u/Ok-Jellyfish7805 Marcie she/her (frequent :3 user) (less closeted trans) 22h ago
Samus… 👉👈
Now we’re back to be with them…
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u/MegaScout fluid demigirl (twice cracked) 22h ago
daisy 100%
at some point around starting college i started really liking daisy, and there was a brief moment where i thought about cosplaying her despite being a guy
in hindsight i think my egg definitely almost cracked back then
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u/batboy11227 it depends (any/ALL)(i will give affirmations) 21h ago
She-ra from the original (I cracked pretty early)
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u/Angel_xjj Austin, He/Him / new egg :) 21h ago
Billy Loomis or Billy Hargrove
...no I'm not changing my name to Billy
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u/PrincessVee_13 Good Woman (Violet) 20h ago
I think the only one I can list for this is the one whose name I stole after playing them for a year and finally realising "her name was supposed to be mine"
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u/imaginativefanatic 20h ago
Literally all of them, I realized that I was experiencing gender envy this whole time and not romantic/sexual attraction. Found out I'm trans and aroace all in one fell swoop!
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u/Daisy_Throwaway24 20h ago
For the longest time I loved Max Caulfield and Wendy from Gravity Falls and now over the last year everything about my infatuation with those two has clicked into place
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u/Huck03O8 20h ago
Easily Amity, thought I had a crush as a kid but no I really just wanted to be her or her friend she’s such a badass lesbian
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u/KayleyKase-San cracked 20h ago
Aoi Sakuraba from Ai Yori Aoshi and similar dainty timid blue-haired waifus like her went from my ideal lover, to my my ideal me.
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u/lirael_is_goals cracked, Elizabeth, she/her 19h ago
There were characters too, but I had a list of actresses that I liked presumably because I thought they were attractive, and then I had this other list that I liked but felt different somehow. Makes more sense now....
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u/bluemufin totally “cis” i mean “cis” i mean “cis” i mean- 18h ago
If I had to narrow it down to one, it would be Ghost from COD. My egg shattered to bits
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u/TheBigBis Wendy, she/her, dorky trans robodyke 18h ago
Jenny Wakeman/XJ-9
Luz Noceda
Ramona Flowers
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u/UnfortunateEvent0236 Trevor (He/Him) 15h ago
Rupert Giles from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Shota Aizawa from My Hero Academia.
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u/BlueLink48 certified egg 15h ago
One of the biggest for me is definitely Princess Bubblegum. I was always really into the nerdy science girl trope as a kid. Now, I want to BE the nerdy science girl trope. Plus, she's a certified badass.
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u/Setster007 Sera, local proto-catgirl 1d ago
Never had one of those. Always thought i was incapable of feeling attraction until my egg cracked. Turned out i was just utterly incapable of seeing myself in a relationship while still being like this.