Hi sorry I don't watch Voltron but one character uses they/them in canon or is it only fanon? I see the same character (I think) mentioned as she/her so I'm very confused lol also your art style is so nice!
@morgrenth Hi! First of thanks! I’m glad you like my style!
But yeah the character is Pidge Gunderson, who (mild spoilers that are resolved within the first three episodes) dresses up like a boy to infiltrate a school and has had some......ambiguity about their gender?
in the comic, they’re referred to with they/them pronouns, and they show’s pretty much been very ambivalent on that and for the last couple of seasons after the reveal hasn’t really used pronouns at all for Pidge?
but yeahhhh i mean they say ‘i’m actually a girl’ in that reveal scene but never go back to using ‘Katie’ as their name or changing their presentation at all and arguably, yeah, it is justifiable if you wanna use she/her pronouns for Pidge and a lot of fandom does, but insofar, we’ve had canonical use of they/them and an active avoidance of actual pronouns but that is honestly more about the voltron writers not really knowing how to handle that than any like, commentary they’re making, i think?
So yeah up in the air i guess? I’m also just like. fucking Petty? I’ve seen people very vehement about some people wanting to use they/the pronouns for pidge because of the ‘i’m a girl’ thing but like. and speaking as someone who’s genderfluid themselves but sometimes uses binary terms to refer to myself (i call myself a shitty punk boy, or all manner of _____-boy all the time tho i definitely don’t identify as one) i’m not sure how much that really means in terms of like a legitimate confirmation one way or another esp with the rest of the stuff afterwards? There’s also a scene in season 3 where they’re trying to decide which bathroom to go into at a mall, and seem very confused and indecisive, and if that isn’t just a real big flag of like - this bean is nonbinary or at least questioning their gender i don’t know what y’all fucking want.
Also, again, being genderfluid i will cling to any nonbinary representation, even the merest hit of it, half baked though this one kind of is, till my dying breath. I enjoy Pidge gender headcanons of all sorts, really, but I’m honestly a bit disappointed that people are so eager to peg Pidge as just a cis girl when they’re a fairly rare example of gender ambigiuity that isn’t just dudes in drag or just overtly shitty in western cartoons of late and like. c’mon people can i just see myself in media a little bit?? like can that just be a thing?
also i’m just so sad that the gender binary still exists in space???? there are some good lady alien designs in this show that arent just human women painted in different colours (But then again there are those ones too............................. .....................) but we haven’t had a great showing on the front of having gender systems that aren’t just Western Human Cis Ones. And I know Voltron is a kid’s show, technically, but i still feel like there was an opportunity missed there because it’s netflix produced and not on a traditional network????
sorry this was long but yeah, i kind of didn’t answer your question because there’s really not a proper answer but yeahhhh. come watch voltron! if you do tell me if you like it!
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