iiiiiiiif you’re looking for cover redraw requests may i suggest Alpha but gay 👀 would love to see it w/my channing and kalani ofc but most importantly it just. needs to be gay
I made it Lesbian with My Kai and Channing but I already drew ur request for Kalani a few months ago tho haha
Do u hc Kai's wolf form the same as in the books or different looking?
I jokingly redesigned her wolf form a bit ago, but likeee if I stick to canon I like the canon wolf sprite for her! With like th black fur nd stuff. I imagine he still has his earrings in wolf form too but that's it.
I imagine Channing's wolf form wld also be black tho just bc I think it'd fit better with the sprite I picked for her, like I just imagine it matching more with ppl's haircolour in human form.
6. Do they have multiple names? Do they correspond to a specific gender?
No, just Kai!
10. Did they ever officially “come out” as multigender? To everyone at once, or a few people at a time?
I think when she first found out its a Thing as a teen he told some people about it like, wow that's me! But he generally doesn't really feel a need to bring it up. Sometimes she tells people but in general it's more like, people know she uses multiple sets of pronouns, either because she asked them or because they notice others doing it. So ppl vaguely know that way I guess? But he's not really someone who'll sit you down and tell you, he'll give the full Details if you ask for it lol. And ppl she dates she tells cuz it feels Important and she cares a lot more about being understood in that case I guess? Like he doesn't want to be with someone who sees him as just a man or just a woman.
14. Do they prefer masculine (man, male, boy), feminine (woman, female, girl), or neutral (enby, enban, kid, person) terms to be referred to with? A combination? Something else entirely?
Both masc and fem terms! Preferably people use both for her. He doesn't like neutral terms very much. If someone calls him enby he'd correct them cuz that's not how he sees himself.
Rex:
25. Do they know many other multigender people?
I like to think a lot of orcs are similar to her! And genders other than just male and female are not too uncommon for them. I've definitely been thinking about giving her some friends she'd meet in her time living on Flotilla and I wanted at least one of them to be multigender. Idk if they'd necessarily relate much though, because Rex still grew up with different gender roles and stuff.
26. Do they have a community that supports multigender people?
Mostly yes, the whole party has just always known her like this and I think for some it's probably their first time interacting with someone like Rex, but none of them were ever uncomfortably weird about it even if they did ask questions. I think she rly likes that to Imtura it's nothing new, especially with her being an orc there's something validating to her?
In Riverbend Rex was mostly very beloved and people respect her. Though I do think it was jarring for some to see her return and present a lot more feminine than she did when she left. But also that's like the least interesting thing about her now lol.
31. Do they often have to explain what being multigender means, or particular genders they have?
She doesn't really like explaining lol, she will if people ask respectfully, which does happen sometimes. But she won't rly bother for example if someone is weird or rude about it, she's just like 'you dont need to get it to be respectful' like she just doesn't see it as her job to school ppl esp if they dnt seem open to actually learning bc it's just gonna end with her being upset.
50. Wild card! Mention anything else you want!
I think being an orc and her gender stuff r very interwined, that's part of why imagining her as different races is rly hard for me!
I also think having a baby n becoming a mom felt nice to her in a way related to her gender. Like in no way does tht make someone more of a woman but I think she definitely to some degree personally felt like that? Like she's just like oh wow im a MOM. Mb also partly partly because of other women now letting her in on conversations relating to that, I think she always enjoys being included like that. I think it also definitely played a part in why she wasn't really too distressed about just suddenly having a baby unexpectedly. Like Rex knew that all orcs have th same equipment down there and can all give birth (the latter only from that one lore tablet though gdgdg what a way to find out) bbut like the idea just felt so bizarre when it applied to her because anatomy wise she still lumped herself in with humans and she was raised as a boy and looked pretty similar to other boys. So she's still just like weirdly surprised about it all.
I think she never rly looks for ways to affirm her masculinity the way she does for her femininity, but I think that's partly just because she's an orc and just is considered masculine by default outside of Flotilla.
1. Which multigender identity is your OC? Do they have more than one? Nothing specific?
Both Rex and Kai are bigender and consider themselves both male and female!
Rex doesn't explicitly identify as bigender because I imagine she doesn't really have a word for it, she'd just say she's both.
8. How did they discover their multigender identity?
Rex:
In her mid teens Rex starts getting into her first relationships and partially inspired by girlfriends and things she likes on them (+ access to their stuff lol), she starts experimenting more with make-up, jewelry and starts growing her hair out. Like just slightly tipping her toes in, at the time everyone just sees her as the prettyboy orc in town. After a while travellers passing through town would occasionally 'mistake' her for a woman and Rex finds out that she enjoys when this happens. I feel like that's sorta like the trigger that leads to her eventually figuring out because it gets her thinking. Her conclusion that she's both and not only a woman is because she doesn't mind being seen and treated as a man either and that's not a part of her she wants to 'reject' at all. Even if like the whole female part of her is definitely more 'exciting' to her especially when she first realises.
Kai:
Kai has always been very androgynous and is lucky to have parents who'd just roll with anything, let him wear what he wants, play with whatever he wants and call him whatever he wants to be called. I think outside the home he's definitely been met with like varying levels of acceptance/understanding but generally the people who mattered most had some degree of understanding that Kai wasn't a cis girl and made it clear to him in their treatment of him. So she's always just kinda been like this, it's just that around I think age 13 she discovers the label bigender and was like 'oh! That's me.'
18. Do they plan to transition medically? In which ways?
Rex:
I have no idea if people in her world Can medically transition, but I know that at the very least she doesn't know that's a Thing and therefore just never even thought about it. I think the one thing she does wish was different about her body is that she wants bigger breasts, tho I think that's more an aesthetic than a gender thing to her, if that makes sense?
Kai:
I think he's considering it, but his gender dysphoria is like manageable enough for him not to feel like he needs to go on HRT or get top surgery asap. Like just working out to get buff, training his voice and keeping his hair short does a lot for him. I think she mainly wants to wait it out because she's on the fence about having kids in the future and she feels like especially being on T would complicate that more than it's worth it to her? Like having to go off T again and all that.
32. Are they often frustrated with how multigender people are perceived in their society?
I think they're both just very much like 'You don't need to understand, you just need to respect me.' I think neither of them are very vocal about it either, like not everyone needs to know their identity. Kai does tell people she's closer to that she appreciates it if they'd try to interchange pronouns (even just different sets on different days if thats easier) but also that its not a Huge Deal, just a preference. But especially when he feels like someone might just react like umm wtf/this is bullshit he doesn't rly bother cuz whatever. But those are never friends or people that matter to her anyway. Like I'm sure there's people that don't really get it but they're also decent people who aren't gonna whine about a gender identity they don't 'get'.