>vincent reacts with visible surprise when he notices that rin is flat and has male genitalia, but doesn't react with anything more than a jawdrop similar to how he reacts to catherine earlier in the game and stammering out a "you're... a guy?"
vincent calls rin an otoko no ko, though. the nuance there is different than him realizing that rin is amab (otoko no ko is kind of a fetishy thing) and calling him a guy. the fact that rin’s route goes hand-in-hand with erica being “”cured”” of her transness is definitely not a huge step up for atlus in every way. if anything, the company’s treatment of lgbt characters and themes has gone further and further downhill over the years when you consider that persona 2, a game that came out in the 90’s, had a gay romance as the preferred option, a non-fetishy kiss between two girls, etc.
Re: spoilers for rin's route
vincent calls rin an otoko no ko, though. the nuance there is different than him realizing that rin is amab (otoko no ko is kind of a fetishy thing) and calling him a guy. the fact that rin’s route goes hand-in-hand with erica being “”cured”” of her transness is definitely not a huge step up for atlus in every way. if anything, the company’s treatment of lgbt characters and themes has gone further and further downhill over the years when you consider that persona 2, a game that came out in the 90’s, had a gay romance as the preferred option, a non-fetishy kiss between two girls, etc.