#Our cute bot boy has some things to unlearn about gender roles

[loathsome-boykisser]

Another gender headcannon that no one asked for: Blade

I swear I just had this in drafts and then it just happened to be his birthday.

Anyway, I'm personally not a fan of the whole "non-binary android" trope as someone under the nb spectrum myself (no hate if you like it, I'm just a internet stranger). Honestly, I see Blade as kind of an inverse of that trope.

This SSR seemed to be his original uniform, back when he worked for the organisation in Saia. His clothes are very androgynous and his hair is grown out. He has both masculine and feminine traits with dark colours. What I'm getting at is that he was "born" non-binary. However, if you look at his current outfit...

Short hair, baby blue colours and so many cut outs that it's obvious he's male. He's still a little femme but in the same way a femboy is, where they're evidently a man. (Trust me on this, I'm simultaneously a femboy and a demi-boy) I think, in the twenty years he spent in the Dead Zone, he read up on a bunch of books; baby books, story tales and what have you, and had all kinds of takeaways. I can see him going "Oh, these male protagonists are powerful fighters. I also fight hard! I must be a boy then! This book on babies says boys wear blue! Blue looks cute, I like blue, I want to be a boy!" I'm essentially saying he's non-binary to male transgender, if that makes any sense. It even correlates to his obsession to feeding Eiden, even if he's not good at it.

I can see him reading a dated book about how men provide for their darlings and doing everything in his power to ensure he does as well: because he's a boy! He wears blue, he fights, he builds and he provides food! He likes it much more then all the missions he used to do. I think it also has potential for interesting fics where Eiden teaches him to relax a bit and assure him that he doesn't need to do everything a book says to be a man.