#nonbinary silent salt

[vanililies]

btw silent salt being confirmed to use he/him did absolutely nothing to my non-binary silent salt headcanons. Now they're just a non-binary egg who has yet to realize that hiding yourself behind your armor all the time rather than risk being perceived as a gender is kind of not cis.

[beastlybantering]

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.

TL;DR: They/them Silent Salt, transphobes can bite it

[history-stan]

Idc what anyone—even CRK itself—says. Silent Salt Cookie will ALWAYS be non-binary to me.

[beastlybantering]

Transmasc Silent Salt boom

OOC: Yeah, the post yesterday was supposed to mean that I gonna use they/he for them as a compromise, but then I saw a bunch of people being transphobic towards people headcanoning them as nonbinary or transfem, so I decided "fuck it, I won't cater to people who don't respect our existence and our joy," so I've decided to switch back to only they/them. I do love the transmasc headcanons for them, though! Headcanon them as whatever gender you'd like! :D

[beastlybantering]

To be honest,I dont really have a problem with people headcanoning silent salt different gender. I kinda like how overblown the reaction to him being a male was.I 100% get the disappointment(I was hoping for him to be a girl or nonbinary) but I still think the reaction was overblown bit. However, it doesnt give people a right to be transphobic,that's all I wanted to say.

OOC: Yeah, I really wasn't angry about them being a man in the story (I was a bit disappointed that they're not nonbinary or even mystery gender in-game, because I think it would've been cool if there was an in-game gender reveal because they just give mysterious vibes), and people have a right to be, albeit respectfully, disappointed, but being transphobic to people and saying they can't headcanon Silent Salt as nonbinary isn't okay. Most of the reactions I've seen from people in the woman/nonbinary Silent Salt crowd is really just people expressing that they're disappointed or saying they'll headcanon them as a different gender anyway (there are a few exceptions, of course, but I've mostly seen respectful disappointment), while some people from the man Silent Salt crowd pile on them and saying transphobic things to them. Of course, I don't think ALL people from the man Silent Salt crowd act like this, but I don't really see as many people from the woman/nonbinary Silent Salt crowds getting unreasonably angry at the fact that Silent Salt is a man as people from the man Silent Salt crowds getting angry at others headcanoning Silent Salt as anything other than a binary man.