OOC: So, I deleted my post from yesterday. I will continue to refer to this Silent Salt with only they/them pronouns. The reason for this is because I've seen an influx of people being transphobic towards people who headcanon Silent Salt as transfem or nonbinary after their gender reveal, saying "it was obvious they were a man", and that people are "misgendering" them by headcanoning them as such. Now, let me preface this by saying, I am a trans man myself, and I do take respecting people's pronouns and gender seriously. However, the fact of the matter is, in Silent Salt's case, it doesn't matter what people headcanon them as, because, at the end of the day, it isn't removing representation. If someone were to, say, headcanon Pitaya as a woman and use she/her for them, then that would be taking away representation because they're canonically nonbinary and nonbinary people don't have much representation, even in Cookie Run. However, with Silent Salt, as far as we know, in the story, they're a cis man. Cis men already have a ton of characters to look to and relate to, thus they already have tons of representation. Someone seeing Silent Salt as a trans man, a trans woman, or nonbinary isn't taking away any representation, especially since their gender probably won't matter to the story. There are certain stories where a character's gender is crucial to the plot, but I doubt Silent Salt's story will be one of them. If they end up being a trans man or them being a man becomes crucial to their story, then I will switch to he/him pronouns for them, but for now, I'll double down on my nonbinary headcanon for them, not only because I see them as such, but also to spite those who want to take joy away from trans people (or queer people in general) having fun and trying to connect with characters by headcanoning a character as something different from what they were said to be when, in reality, it doesn't matter because it's not a crucial part of their story, nor is it taking away any meaningful representation.
