To anyone thinking this should be tagged 1boy, crossdressing, male focus, or otoko no ko, this character may look like Bridget, but she is not Bridget. This is Dhana Opini, a biologically female character, cosplaying as Bridget. Please keep that in mind before changing the tags. Thank you.

Edit: Retracted the part about crossdressing, see NuclearHellBird's explanation below.

Blank_User said:

To anyone thinking this should be tagged 1boy, crossdressing, male focus, or otoko no ko, this character may look like Bridget, but she is not Bridget. This is Dhana Opini, a biologically female character, cosplaying as Bridget. Please keep that in mind before changing the tags. Thank you.

This post is admittedly kinda heavy on the tag algebra, but yeah, as you mention, this is a female character cosplaying as bridget (guilty gear), a male character. The crossdressing tag is certainly a less than perfect solution given that Bridget is an otoko no ko, but it's a result of crossplay, the tag I was originally trying to add, being aliased to it.

We were actually discussing this earlier in the discord, and I am sure that at the time, the alias must've seemed fairly obvious, but it didn't account for all edge cases, such as the one illustrated by this post. A solution would of course be to unalias crossplay, so I'll probably write a BUR in the coming days once I get the chance.

NuclearHellBird said:

This post is admittedly kinda heavy on the tag algebra, but yeah, as you mention, this is a female character cosplaying as bridget (guilty gear), a male character. The crossdressing tag is certainly a less than perfect solution given that Bridget is an otoko no ko, but it's a result of crossplay, the tag I was originally trying to add, being aliased to it.

We were actually discussing this earlier in the discord, and I am sure that at the time, the alias must've seemed fairly obvious, but it didn't account for all edge cases, such as the one illustrated by this post. A solution would of course be to unalias crossplay, so I'll probably write a BUR in the coming days once I get the chance.

Okay, that makes sense. I thought Bridget's default appearance in Strive was considered an example of crossdressing, which would mean a character that is physically female wearing it thus wouldn't be, but a crossplay tag would definitely fit if it's referring to the characters themselves. I'll retract the part about crossdressing for now. Thanks for clearing that up.

It shouldn't be crossdressing regardless. Girls cosplaying crossdressers that wear women's clothing don't get tagged with crossdressing by proxy, there's plenty of precedent for this.