its that time again. its angel yap time :)
okay perhaps this may be projection okay but who cares. i think angel could be nonbinary, or genderqueer, or whatever. if youve watched angel the series you might remember the episode in season 3 (i think) called billy. well the ending of that episode is often used to be like "angel's a trans woman! hell yeah!" and listen. i love trans women, theyre great. but what about nonbinary angel. surely after 300 years on earth and then like 500 years in hell your experience of gender is just gonna kinda fade. like bro surely would not give a shit about gender. also in that way you can make vampirism an allegory for transgenderism. like the transformation into something different, something new to you, and for most vampires theyre happier after (for angel this is more angelus but whatever we're not having that conversation today). and also the thing that we've seen several vampires do once theyre sired which is choose a new name (darla, angelus/angel, spike) its seemingly common enough between them that its likely common vampire practice (at least for older vampires).
so yeah. angels nonbinary sometimes because i said so <3
