Celeste’s creator Maddy Thorson has confirmed that Madeline, the protagonist of the hit platformer, is transgender.“Well, yeah, of course she is,” Thorson writes on their Medium page.
But while Thorson says this fact was “painfully obvious to a lot of trans people,” the story behind Madeline is less straight forward.“During Celeste’s development, I did not know that Madeline or myself were trans,” Thorson writes on their Medium page. “During the Farewell DLC’s development, I began to form a hunch.
Post-development, I now know that we both are.”Thorson adds that Madeline’s story is “unknowingly written from a trans perspective”.