[ SECRET POST #3651 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3651 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

>why else would Frisk ALWAYS be shown as a cis girl

Idk about this one, as a guy I can't imagine Frisk as a guy. I can't put my finger on what it was, but something about how the world and everyone in it reacted to and/or treated Frisk made me think they were a tomboy cis girl or an nb-female person of some kind. So I couldn't self-insert if I tried.

And now I'm wondering, are the majority of Frisk arts and fanons female? Do you think it's because fandom is predominantly female and they're all self inserting, or because something about how everyone else reacted signalled female-of-some-sort to more people than not?

[(Anonymous)]

Thinking more on it, I remember thinking it'd surprise me if Frisk were a cis guy because their gender was such a non issue. A cis girl or nb female-bodied person dressing in a-gender clothing and going by "they" is going to get almost no reaction from most people, while a cis guy or nb-male-bodied person wearing their hair long and going by "they" is bound to get a "oh, you're a guy" reaction once in a while, and it never happened. In the same way that a boy wearing a dress is going to get a lot more odd looks than a girl wearing shorts and a baseball cap.

You could handwave it as "monsters don't do genders like humans," I guess. But that's the part that stuck with me.

[(Anonymous)]

But I don't think Frisk goes by "they" in that like, that's their preferred pronoun that they asked to be called by. The real reason for "they" is probably because programming the text with "they" was simpler than having the player choose which pronoun to be called throughout the game. And storywise it works because the other characters probably can't tell human gender by looking so they used "they" and Frisk didn't notice or care. Frisk hardly seemed to care about anyone calling them by their own name, so it's not too likely they're particular about pronouns.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, except I wasn't claiming that Frisk the character personally preferred the pronoun or that the creator was trying to make them explicitly nb. I said Frisk went by "they," as evidenced by every other character in the game using it for them. They do go by they, it's not up for debate.

Whether intentional or not, political statement or not, when placed into context with characters, to me, it makes it hard for me to believe Frisk is male. Sometimes things done for sheer mechanics affect a story.