Nov 2, 2025
mildly upset that there's a cultural basis but i cant think of a linguistic basis for Killjoys slang to evolve away from gendered pronouns. all three canonical major languages of the Zones (english, japanese, and spanish) have gendered pronouns T-T
#i'm being inane again#danger days#danger days the true lives of the fabulous killjoys#was thinking about the fact that mandarin has gendered pronouns which sound identical#in writing theyre gendered but in speaking theyre all tā#and i was like “well it would make sense for the zones to evolve something similar right?”#“only one pronoun for everyone so you dont have to worry about accidently misgendering someone and getting shot?”#and then i was like “no. theres no good linguistic niche it could evolve from.”#except MAYBE english singular “they”.#but then you run into the problem of confusing whether someone is talking about a person or a whole crew#which COULD form an interesting cultural thing of thinking of a person and their crew as the same#(your vocabulary kinda shapes the way you think after all- sapir-whorf hypothesis)#which would be FASCINATING to study#especially when taken with the fact that killjoys are so intensely individualistic in reaction to BL/i's homogenization#anyways.#unfortunately for my worldbuilding brain japanese and spanish have highly gendered pronouns#so i dont think a specific non-gendered way of referring to everyone- an obsolescence of gendered pronouns-#would evolve#vibrating about this