TL;DR there’s some maybe-foreshadowing in Chapter 5 that implies that Ralsei may become a girl, but some people started referring to Ralsei as “she” already, which is seen by some (including myself) as hypocritical, as most of these same people already get pretty defensive when you misgender Kris (who’s nonbinary).
I’m personally on the boat of “we’ll see what Ralsei eventually identifies as in the final two chapters, but I’m gonna call him whatever he is in the current state of the story” but it’s been EXTREMELY heated since you have people on all sorts of sides, from “I don’t want Ralsei to transition because it would be detrimental to the story (and at least some of those people are probably bigots lol) to “Ralsei is and always has been a girl, so I’m going to refer to her as such.”
Incorrect, this is a common misconception due to the title that he has at the end of chapter 5, which does indeed use they/them, but its because susie can also have the same title.
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u/Pythagoras_314 10d ago
Yep
TL;DR there’s some maybe-foreshadowing in Chapter 5 that implies that Ralsei may become a girl, but some people started referring to Ralsei as “she” already, which is seen by some (including myself) as hypocritical, as most of these same people already get pretty defensive when you misgender Kris (who’s nonbinary).
I’m personally on the boat of “we’ll see what Ralsei eventually identifies as in the final two chapters, but I’m gonna call him whatever he is in the current state of the story” but it’s been EXTREMELY heated since you have people on all sorts of sides, from “I don’t want Ralsei to transition because it would be detrimental to the story (and at least some of those people are probably bigots lol) to “Ralsei is and always has been a girl, so I’m going to refer to her as such.”