#bigender people are a part of the nonbinary umbrella!

[tamaaiba]

Not so friendly reminder that nonbinary is an umbrella term and NOT a third gender and if I see any of y’all treating it as one it’s on sight

[c-h4nn]

would love to know more about sioketa. Do you have any more “lore” or headcanons for sioketa/olrox that you haven’t posted here yet? Also what pronouns does sioketa use? Thanks :)

I have an ongoing Olrox/past lover fic series! But there's only so much I can fit into art or a fic chapter LOL.

In my previous post's tags, I mentioned that I headcanon Olrox's past lover to be Two-Spirit, and so I write Sioketa implicitly (and once it comes up naturally in the story, explicitly) to be Two-Spirit as well. The Mohican language doesn't differentiate masculine and feminine pronouns, so in his native tongue, he is automatically referred to as 'they'. Mohican speakers learning English would default to using 'he' for everyone, and it just stuck with him. So, his pronouns are he/they but split between languages.

"Two-Spirit" varies vastly by tribe, and I haven't been able to find information beyond the typical roles of women and men in Mohican society. However, Waunthut Mennitoow/Wauntheet Monnitoow (the Great Spirit/Creator) is genderless, and some neighboring tribes recognize forms of being Two-Spirit. During times of war, Two-Spirit people (in other tribes) occasionally filled in positions of demand, but as Sioketa was too young to take part in the French and Indian War, he was raised largely by the women in his community and mentored into their roles. But more than being mentored, Sioketa holds a flexible Spirit, genderless by nature, able to mold itself into what is wanted or needed from himself, his family, and his homeland. He leads as such - he is a brother, a mother, a hunter, a craftsperson, a healer, a steward. He is a man, his Spirit more nebulous. In addition to his general feeling of cultural loss and isolation, as he forgets traditional ecological knowledge and the Mohican terms for plants from disuse/adopting English over the years, it grates against the core of his Spirit. It's especially distressing for him with how attuned he is to the environment and other sacred or spiritual beings (e.g., Olrox).

Sioketa's facial tattoos are based on stamps on Mohican basketry! This is another link to him being Two-Spirit, as it was women who tended to make basketry crafts.

(P.S. He does not fall anywhere under the trans umbrella! Being Two-Spirit is a separate thing. The lived experiences of being transgender and being Two-Spirit do often overlap, but not all Two-Spirit people consider themselves LGBTQ+. Sioketa is not nonbinary, bigender, genderfluid, etc., nor would he consider himself to be.)

I'm also ignoring the whole bit about the past lover being a soldier in the Revolutionary War on the colonists' side. Historically, many Mohicans converted to Christianity and sided with the Patriots to maintain their people and lands, but Sioketa (and, undoubtedly, the past lover) has directly witnessed erosion inflicted by the colonists. Leading up to the Revolutionary War, there was already pressure in Stockbridge, MA, from settlers for the Native population to leave. Following the war, the Mohicans were cheated out of their land in Stockbridge. It would be far more impactful for the past lover to resist settlement entirely. Sioketa would fight against the Redcoats and the colonists to the bitter end, and Olrox would deeply respect him for that, more than he would for Sioketa just being a revolutionary soldier.

Also, they have a little height difference :) Assuming Olrox is over 6ft/190cm, Sioketa is around 5'8"/175cm, which is actually taller than average.

[vteap]

Obey me characters minus Luke Gender/Sexuality Headcanons

These are just my headcanons i know technically theyre all pan but... Come on lets have some fun with this (mainly my opinion, i do have an open mind and love all headcanons :3)

Luke is not included because hes a baby, yes typically people start think about it around 10 (which is what i like to think he is in human years) but i still dont wanna have to include it (power to you if you do but i wont :3) but he is an ally and does want to know so he doesn't offend or misgender

Lucifer - Pansexual (Male leaning)

Ive always Imagined Lucifer to be more male leaning when it comes to preferences. For a multitude of reasons but at first to spite his father, then later on him finding hes a lot more comfortable with other guys. He will date a girl he would just prefer not to.

Mammon - Bisexual (no preference)/Bigender (He/she)

Hes greed, of course he has no preferences he takes what he can get. He doesnt care what youre packing. Give him love and attention and he is all over you no matter the gender.

The bigender thing was because of a fic i read and im now obsessed with the idea so

Levi - Bisexual (No preference)/Demiboy (He/they)

I think that he decided to fuck with people in the celestial realm by going by they/them and it just stuck. He then had a gender crisis in Devildom (poor Lucifer having to listen to two of his brothers having a gender crisis). So Lucifer had Barbatos help them find their identity. Levi realized that Demiboy fit him the most. (We thank Barbatos in unison because he saved Lucifers mental health)

For sexuality similar to Mammon, he doesn't care. Do you like anime? Will you give him love and attention? Youre perfect.

Satan - Pansexual (Male leaning)

Like father, like son. Nothing else to note i literally thought it would be funny if it was the same as Lucifer didnt put much other thought into it.

Asmo - Pansexual (No preference)/Genderfluid (He/she/they)

Do i need to explain with his sexuality?

Now for Genderfluid. I imagine that he didnt like his angel name, for him it was way to masculine and he hated it. He didnt know why but he just did. So when his name got changed to Asmodeus because it sounded more neutral, but because of that he had a gender crisis. He was more bothersome then Levi was (who just needed a push in the right direction). I imagine that he doesnt like to be confined into one box, but he does prefer to be called girlfriend, Princess, and wife then the male/nonbinary equivalent.

Beel - Pansexual (No preference)/Ace spec (Demisexual)

If you can make him food he doesnt give less of a shit just make him food.

For the Ace spectrum I imagined him to be under that umbrella in some way. And in the game he did seem interested once he got really close to MC so it made the most sense to me

Belphie - Pansexual (No preference)/Aroace spec (Demiromantic/sexual)

Similar to Beel on the Aroace part. Took more inspo from how he acts about MC in the game

Diavolo - Bisexual (no preference)

As ive said in the gay awakening headcanon. Hes not held to the standard of having one or the other. He will date whatever he doesn't care

Barbados - Gay/Aroace spec (Greyromantic/sexual)/Trans F→M (He/him)

ok this one needs some explaining so it may be a little long. So Barbatos is seen to not show tooo much emotion so hence the Greyromantic/sexual because he does feel it he just just not a lot. (He gets confused if he thinks to hard about it)

Now for him being Trans. Its really just a personal thing that ive headcanoned that hes old af so before he transitioned he tried the whole be a man thing and enjoyed it a lot more then he thought he would. It bothered him for thousands of years then decided fuck it and transitioned. And he was a lot happier ever since. (He transitioned thousands of years before he met Diavolo)

Now him being gay... I didn't put to much thought into that I kinda just thought it would fit well for him

Simeon - Unlabled

Simeon to me feels like he wouldnt enjoy labels, to restricting. So he just says he doesnt like to label himself but power to you if you do. Its just not his thing

Solomon - Bisexual (Slightly male leaning but mainly no preference)

Didnt put way to much thought into this, hes basically imortal so why limit himself to one gender, but he does prefer men

Mephistopheles - Pansexual (no preference)/Nonbinary(They/he)

Similar to Diavolo with the sexuality, and they have actually dated people of all genders. (Some of them were absolutely horrendous but thats a story fot another time)

Now for the nonbinary, they never enjoyed being referd to with he/him pronouns (they still use them because they do present as masculine so they dont care about random people calling them he but people close to them know that they prefere They/them)

(Guys i love Mephistopheles sm please stop the Mephistopheles slander </3)

Raphael - Androsexual/Genderfluid (He/they/she)

time for Mephisraph propaganda.

As ive said in the gay awakening headcanons. He was straight in denial then he met Mephistopheles. Boom gay awakening, found out that they prefered they them pronouns, did research, Boom Androsexual (look he really wanted Mephistopheles can you blame a guy desperately trying to make his partner comfortable, even though Mephistopheles didnt care but dont tell him that)

So after he found out that he had a more preference to masculine people. He started to question his gender after hearing Mephistopheles and Asmo talk about it. He asked Asmo about it then proceeded to have a major small gender crisis to his partner. Mephistopheles did their best to help their boyfriend through it and did eventually help him the best they could but it came with lots of praying and very late research nights

Thirteen - Bisexual (Female Leaning)/Bigender (She/him)

I mean... Her hair... Come on? Me and my friend had to. With bigender my friend boo came up with that so you'll have to ask him but i still love it

Note - Sorry this is super long. But again these are my headcanons i use. I do like seeing other peoples headcanons and i love seeing what people think so :3

[livingthedragonlife]

happy multigender awareness day!! i am aware of you!! have some q's from that ask <3

1, 2, 6, 7, 12, 21, 23, 30 :DD

yay thank you!!!! i am perceived <3

[here is the ask game in question]

1) What are your genders? Either labels/terms or descriptions :)

I’m a bigender man/woman! The double binary! I also like saying I’m a trans man/cis woman. Cistrans manwoman. Tee hee mashing words together

2) Describe your pronouns. What are they, and why?

I use he/him & she/her, and I usually write it fully out like that (instead of he/she or she/he or something) so that nobody gets to ignore one for the sake of the other, or assume it’s a typo or something. I also say it out loud fully too, so no one can mishear me.

6) Do you identify with any umbrella terms that can encompass being multigender, like "trans" or "nonbinary"?

I am trans, but I am not non-binary.

I guess by definition I’m non-binary? Like I technically fall under the umbrella, but I’ve never identified with it. People tend to assume that “non-binary” means “genderless” which is the exact opposite of what I have going on. I’d rather strangers just assume I’m a binary trans man tbh, because at least then they’d be half-right!

7) Are your genders more fluid or more static?

Static! I am 100% a man and 100% a woman at all times. They are inseparable and making out.

12) Does your gender influence your sexual orientation? I’m double gay. All my sex is gay. Get bigender’d, idiot.

Real answer: I figured out I was bisexual way before I figured out I was bigender, and that hasn’t changed. I think since I’ve started transitioning, I’ve allowed myself to connect more with being a queer man attracted to queer men. My attraction to men has always felt queer, and something did feel “missing” from it even when I discovered being bisexual, so I think transitioning has let things click into place a bit more. My attraction to women never felt “incomplete” in that way, probably because being a woman attracted to women was already queer, so I never had to worry about being misinterpreted as a straight person lmao. And of course attraction to other trans/non-binary people feel queer because duh.

21) What are your favorite things about being multigender?

Getting to do both, I guess!! I don’t have to pick one gender and completely sever myself from the other, I can take the things I like from both and use the pieces to build one whole genderful self!

23) What unique parts about your identity are you proud of?

I feel powerful in being opposites. I’m a man and woman, I’m a cis and trans person at the same time, and most people—including other trans people—would view that as contradiction that would default not make sense, one would disqualify the other. But not for me! I contain multitudes and you WILL be confused by me.

30) What do you wish more people knew about being multigender? Well first, that it exists. That it’s easy and it’s free to be two or more genders at once. So many people straight up aren’t aware that such an option exists—except they probably know about being genderfluid. But you don’t have to be fluid to be more than one gender at once, there’s a whole spectrum of options out there. You can do whatever you want forever!

But close second is that it does feel inherently exclusionary in most queer spaces to be multigender. There’s a bisexual meet-up in my city that I’ve never been to (and never will), because they separate people by “women and femme non-binary” and “men and masc non-binary”—oh, but don’t worry, “you can decide which group you feel most comfortable in!” If I show up there, which room would they decide I belong in? This is a good microcosm of being multigender in all cishetero society, but unfortunately, indeed, in the queer community as well.

A LOT of queer spaces are separated by gender, sexuality, or presentation. I’ve had to wonder which places and people are going to be safe for me to interact with as my whole self, and which ones are going to dutifully ignore the half of my identity they like the least. I have to wonder if people are going to feel betrayed when they learn I’m a trans person who’s still cis, and try to deny me my own feelings and how I relate to my gender. I have to wonder if I’m “too woman” to date queer men, or “too man” to date queer women. Especially now that I’m on T—how long before people start assuming I’m exclusively a man instead of exclusively a woman? What’s going to happen when they find out they’re wrong?

So yeah, I wish people would keep this in mind more often.

[transtalesofdoom]

The Label Thing - personal experience

I've talked previously about labels I've considered, used, or decided not to use in passing. Let's talk about it in a bit more detail!

I like labels. It's a personal preference, and I understand why someone wouldn't, but I like having words to describe myself with. I like having a handful of terms to explain my experiences quickly. I also like knowing that there's more people with these experiences, grouped under my label. Makes it feel a little less lonely.

Before the whole gender thing, I had already picked out the labels of biromantic asexual. Gender never really meant anything to me, and why would I care about stuff like genitals if I didn't intend to interact with them. Opted for bi over pan because it sounded nicer and the flag was prettier.

And then the gender thing happened and I suddenly had an entirely new experience to describe. One that was still developing.

The first day after I had come out to myself, I neither liked the term "man" nor "trans" for myself. Both seemed too solid for what I was. I was a dude or a guy, but a man? There's the whole societal aspect to it, how trans men can get treated poorly for "becoming the enemy", that I won't get into here, but it definitely was at play. And "trans" had an oddly definitive feeling to it. Like I had a gender and goal in mind, when I very much didn't. This was weird to me, because I knew that's not how the label is used. Anything that isn't cis can be labeled as trans. But at first it felt like I was appropriating it.

Nonbinary was a pretty safe catch-all. I was, by the very definition, not binary. Nor did I think anyone else was, but that was beside the point. Genderqueer was another option worth considering, since my gender was most definitely queer, but something about it didn't really click with me. Maybe it was the flag and the fact that certain trans-exclusionists used the same colors because they fancied themselves suffragettes.

I became a little more comfortable with it as the compound of transmasc. That was me. I was transing into the masculine. Not very committal, but a descriptor of what I was up to with the gender.

I still liked the term "woman", weirdly enough. Having watched so many Woman-Power movies (shoutout to Oceans 8 and Birds of Prey specifically), it had taken a while for me to fully embrace that label to begin with, and once I had managed to find it empowering, I didn't want to let go of it again. Even if I was transmasc, "Woman" by Kesha was too good of a song to leave behind. I was a motherfucking woman!

I did a bit more snooping around into other labels to see if anything would stick. I found and read the comics by ND Stevenson, and came across the ones where he describes being bigender. And I liked that description. It resonated with me. Especially because he references the Kesha song, I guess. 'Vibrating between genders too fast to see' felt relatable. So maybe I was bigender?

But I wasn't vibrating between male and female. Those were a part of it, sure, but there was more. And also less. I was every gender and no gender simultaneously. And while that is a possible subgroup of bigender, it once again felt like using the term, although I liked it, wouldn't properly convey my experience.

That night I decided to coin "fuckgender", only to discover that not only did this label already exist, but it also described exactly what I was feeling. (Not to be confused with genderfuck.) And yet, while that was a fun little anecdote, it wasn't what I wanted from a label. And the fact that other people were using it, thereby turning it into a functioning microlabel, made it less appealing to me, somehow.

Instead, I decided to embrace "trans" as an umbrella term for the time being. I didn't really need to define it any further. "transmasculine nonbinary" worked well enough to convey my identity to others. I could elaborate for those who wanted to know more. For myself, the label was the same as my gender. It was kinda there and kinda not, both everything and nothing all at once. More of a general vibe than an actual word.

And that works for now. Maybe that will change. Probably, even. I might embrace bigender, or multigender, I might find my trans experience to be binary enough to go by trans man. Maybe I'll do a U-turn and become a nonbinary woman.

There's only one way to find out and personally, I'm excited for it.

[your-bigender-big-brother]

A Gender for Stellar Enben (an essay)

Recently, I was under the familiar duress of questioning my gender, which involved trying to conceptualize my relationship with the label of neutrois - this is a gender that can encompass anything from neutrality to genderlessness. The neutral aspect of this gender is what appealed to me the most because that’s what the non-male part of my bigender identity is - neutral, as in not feminine or masculine, not female or male. I was both a man and neutrois, both male and neutral. However, I mostly considered the neutrois label to be a placeholder term, something to give a name to something I nebulously referred to as neutrois. Somewhere, there must have been something more out there for me.

My recurring predicament was that neutrosity is often linked to genderlessness, and I wanted a more specific word to only include neutrality but without any implication of ambiguity (like epicene) or intangibility. It also needed to stand alone as its own identity rather than being combined with another identity, like neutramale or neumasc. What I was looking for was an entirely unaligned, neutral, aporine gender that is not ambiguous or nebulous. It also needs to not be xenine (a quality related to xenogenders) because I don’t find any part of my gender to be outside of the human understanding of gender. Something had to replace the neutrois label with something more accurate to my experience. So, the search began.

Neutral would not do because that’s too vague and only refers to a gender quality - you know, like masculine or feminine. Aporagender is also too broad and despite the focus on neutral aporine genders in neolabel spaces, neutrality is not actually intrinsic to aporinity. I needed aporinity but pulled back to specifically be about neutrality. Ningender is an umbrella term, not a specific gender on its own (much like nonbinary, an umbrella term that can be used by itself, but is not specific enough.) Epicene is neutral, but it’s ambiguous - it lacks distinction between feminine and masculine. Neuter, the final label I considered, is actually a sort of “unlabel” that is meant to represent a refusal to limit oneself to any one label or category. None of these could quite encapsulate just how my gender feels along the abinary spectrum.

Here I was, finding myself doing yet another deep dive into genders. I’d seen a lot of neutral-aligned genders and genders that can include neutrality, and it felt an awful lot like I’d hit a dead end. It felt like I’d seen all these genders before and while a handful of them resonated with me in part, none of them felt like they spoke to me entirely. I scoured gender Wiki sites, my gender hoard, and my own resources on neutral identities. All of my avenues for gender research had been used up as far as I could tell, and I assumed that I might just be stuck calling myself neutrois from here on out.

At a certain point I remembered a recent label I added to my gender hoard: Stellarian. This term, of course, is not a gender. It describes a type of alignment and in this case, unaligned. In its original coining, it was meant to describe “Stellar Nonbinary” people - those who defied the idea of having an alignment forced on them. Somewhere along the way, the general usage of neutral came to mean “unaligned”, as in not aligned with the binary. One can of course be called neutral-aligned, which I had always believed was separate from unaligned, but I could never put into words why I thought this. I guess I wanted neutrality to have its own personhood, because one of my genders is a neutral one and that aspect is important to me. Not feminine, not masculine, but also not so far as to be outherine. It was simply neutral. What exactly did I think neutrality was? Why did I try so hard to define it outside of being unaligned?

Of course, this can be entirely a preferential thing. Someone might decide that they want to call themselves neutral-aligned, but they don’t consider themselves unaligned. To them, these might be two different things because maybe neutrality is so important that the concept in and of itself is an alignment. Someone else, however, might see neutrality as unalignment, as being unaligned with any existing gender quality - no masculinity, no femininity, no androgyny, no outherinity, nothing. I find myself more in this range nowadays but, instead of seeing myself as unaligned, I reject alignment as a concept altogether. I’ve always refused to see myself as aligned with any kind of gender or quality. Because of this, it made more sense for me to say that my gender is neutral. It’s very similar to those who prefer to call themselves aphorian instead of abinary, because the former rejects the concept of the binary. I reject the concept of alignment.

With all of this in mind, I began to wonder if stellarian should have a gender form - something that is a specific ningender, unaligned with any kind of gendered concept, but not related to genderlessness as neutrois is. It needed to have that same trait that neutrois has, a gendered element that “softens” the very strongly gendered male side of me (making my malehood a demimalehood.) The cosmic theme of stellarian also appealed to me, so I wanted to keep that intact and find something similar to the stellar name. These were very specific details that I could find in some neutral genders, in part, but never altogether in one definition.

This is where I would come up with the term asteresque - a gender that is entirely neutral and unaligned at its core, but is not genderless (which makes it an aporagender.) It lacks ambiguity which differentiates it from terms like epicene and it is abinary, completely unrelated to the gender binary or anything in between. The neutral quality of this gender can often “soften” or “neutralize” one’s gender, sort of like neutrality creates a more subdued male experience for me. It pushes the limits of neutrality not only as an unalignment, but as a neutrality that is active.

“Asteresque”, of course, means “star-like.” It calls back to the stellarian identity, an identity that is astral by name. It's a name that matches my love for outer space and its many celestial bodies, which were the inspiration for the entire galactian alignment system (where terms like stellarian, lunarian, and solarian come from.) It’s not necessarily a xenogender but some xenogender folks might like to see it that way, given that it’s inspired by the cosmos.

So, I am astereque, at least partially so. My bigender identity consists of malehood and a specific kind of neutrality I’ve been lucky enough to give a name to. With a name that can encompass a variety of gendered feelings, I can see myself explaining my gender by name first and then having the opportunity to delve into all its intricacies for those who are curious. I can see myself saying “Let me tell you a little bit about my stellar nonbinary identity.” It feels more me than neutrois ever did (though neutrois will, of course, always hold a special place in my heart. It’s a wonderful label.)

I hope to see more asteresque folks, truly. This is a term that means a lot to me, but it’s not so exclusive to my experience that other people can’t relate to it in some way. Maybe more and more astral nonbinary folks will start coming out, experimenting with all that asteresque can be and coming up with even more detailed language to talk about what their gender feels like and what being astral means to them. This is what every neolabel coiner dreams of, to see their terms used by people who connect so deeply with them that they become an intrinsic part of their identities. - 💙💚

[baking-potato-27]

I’m genderfluid but not like “sometimes a man sometimes a woman.” I explain it like that to cis people to avoid having to explain gender, but that’s really not who I am.

First of all, I never really feel like I align with my birth sex all the way. My autism gets in the way of that. I can’t say as confidently for the other way because I don’t have the same kind of experience with what you’re “supposed” to be for that, but it’s likely that my gender is always something nonbinary. (This is what I mean by the autigender flag on my pronouns.page: not that autism is my gender, per se, just that it’s a reason that I don’t feel fully like a man or a woman.)

Now to be clear, my gender is sometimes more masculine- or feminine-leaning. What that lean is and how strong it is varies: sometimes it’s one or the other; sometimes it’s both, sometimes it’s neither; sometimes I don’t care that much, and other times I get crippling dysphoria.

Now, on a separate and independent layer from that lie the xenic aspects of my identity. Yes, I (often) have both anthrogender and xenogender parts of my identity. I don’t identify as bigender; I suppose one could call me that, but I feel much more comfortable with the blanket term “multigender.”

What precisely my xenogender is and how strongly I feel it also varies. Often it’s something very personal and unique to me, based on my childhood experiences and/or current hyperfixations. (This is another way that my neurodivergence plays into my gender, but not the reason I identify as autigender.) It’s usually something I feel comfortable classifying under the technogender umbrella, but not always. Sometimes it’s something I have no explanation for and I just have to roll with it.

This explanation is backed by me identifying as genderfluid for over a year now, with several months of gender crisis leading up to that. My gender changes multiple times per week on average, which I’ve gathered is fast even for someone who is genderfluid. This experience is why I love posts that say “my gender is <oddly specific thing>” even when they come with little to no explanation. It’s why most of the time I don’t bother to explain my gender to anyone else and have just stuck with xe/xem-by-default. It’s why I feel more comfortable identifying as nonbinary than transgender. And it’s why I truly believe that gender is deeper than most people will ever realize.

[chaosintheavenue]

2023 Fallout OC Census- Results

At long last, it's here! This time, we had 593 usable responses.

(There are a few categories I haven't analysed just yet, which is mostly because I have Ideas for how to display that data. Please stand by…)

Getting right into the numbers...

Game

Fallout (original): 18 Fallout 2: 8 Fallout 3: 59 Fallout New Vegas: 214 Fallout 4: 160 Fallout 76: 28 Fallout Tactics: 2 Van Buren: 13 A spin-off, AU or mod: 14 A TTRPG campaign: 13 Multiple of the above: 41 None, just the Fallout universe: 22

Are they the in-game protagonist?

Yes: 328 No: 203 It's complicated: 61

Species

Unmutated human: 444 Ghoul: 51 Synth: 41 Ghoul-ish: 13 Other mutant: 9 Supernatural/spiritual being: 7 Robot (non-humanoid): 7 Super Mutant: 6 Cyborg/android: 5 Unknown/it's complicated: 2 Other: 7

Definitions of a few categories, just to clarify exactly what's in there:

Ghoul-ish: Refers to all characters who are partially ghoulified, ghoulify during their storylines, and unique characters with primarily ghoul-like traits

Other mutant: Refers to all characters who are specified to have unique mutations from any cause, unless they better fit into the ghoul-ish category. This is a very diverse umbrella category, and in past surveys has included everything from characters specified to have 76-style mutations that basically function as perks, to a character similar in form and nature to the Master

Gender

Cis woman/girl: 217 Cis man/boy: 154 Trans man/boy: 76 Nonbinary: 47 Trans woman/girl: 27 Agender: 16 Genderfluid: 7 Genderqueer: 6 Man/boy, unknown or varies if cis or trans: 5 Transfeminine: 3 Bigender: 3 Demigirl: 3 Woman/girl, unknown or varies if cis or trans: 4 Butch: 2 Demigender: 2 Questioning: 2 Intersex: 2 Lesbian: 2 Māhū: 1 Multigender: 1 Queer: 1 Transmasculine: 1 Unlabeled: 1

Bonus answers I enjoyed: [redacted], a man in a certain sense of the word, cat, doesn't care for this, eh, God knows, a link to the Wikipedia page for Stone Butch Blues, it's complicated, man of questionable gender, no gender left beef, lost their gender in the war, people assume she's a woman but she doesn't really care, whatever's funniest, yeah

Where are they from?

In previous OC survey location maps, I've only included a single data point for each character, regardless of how many places they may have connections to. However, this time I've decided to include each place that a character has lived as one data point.

The list of assumptions I use when creating these maps:

Arroyo = Oregon

Mojave Wasteland = Nevada if no more specific locations provided

Capital Wasteland = DC if no more specific locations provided

Vault 101 = DC (I feel like this one isn't geographically accurate, but it's to fit in with the above assumption)

Washington unqualified = Washington state, not DC (even for Fallout 3 characters, especially since I know of a Fallout 3 character who is intended to be from Washington state)

Appalachia = West Virginia unless otherwise specified

NCR = California

Legion territory with no other information given = Arizona (this feels like the biggest generalisation of all to me. Maybe take the Arizona count with a pinch of salt?)

'Near X place' = in the same state as X place

I go by the current fifty US states. No splitting of California or considering Canada to be part of the US

Locations that could not be easily defined or placed in a specific state/country (examples: the US as a general answer, multistate regions of the US, continents, or extraterrestrial locations) have been excluded for the purposes of this map

The map for the US:

Massachusetts: 104 California: 79 Nevada: 77 DC: 74 Arizona: 32 West Virginia: 25 Texas: 17 Utah: 15 Oregon: 14 Colorado: 13 New Mexico: 7 Virginia: 6 Maine: 6 Idaho: 6 Pennsylvania: 5 Illinois: 3 Washington: 3 Louisiana: 3 Florida: 3 Wyoming: 3 Tennessee: 3 New York: 3 Rhode Island: 2 North Carolina: 2 Minnesota: 2 Vermont: 2 Alaska: 2 Missouri: 2 Nebraska: 2 Michigan: 2 Indiana: 2 Kentucky: 2 Oklahoma: 2 Maryland: 2 Montana: 1 Connecticut: 1 Georgia: 1 New Jersey: 1 Wisconsin: 1

And the map for the rest of the world:

Canada: 7 Mexico: 7 UK: 7 Russia: 4 China: 2 Australia: 2 France: 2 Brazil: 1 Ireland: 1 Israel: 1 Finland: 1 Germany: 1 Japan: 1 Panama: 1

Further breakdown of characters from the UK: Wales: 4 (…these are all my guys, what can I say?) England: 2 Unspecified: 1

Has this character ever lived in a vault?

Yes: 223 No: 366

Faction

Minutemen: 99 Railroad: 86 Followers of the Apocalypse: 80 Brotherhood of Steel: 77 Yes Man/Independent Vegas: 63 NCR: 50 Caesar's Legion: 38 Original faction: 36 Institute: 26 Kings: 16 Great Khans: 14 Nuka-World raiders: 13 Mr House: 13 Raiders in general: 13 Goodneighbor: 11 Enclave: 11 Arroyo: 9 Think Tank/Big MT: 8 Reilly's Rangers: 7 Underworld: 7 Ciphers: 7 (would you believe me if I said the majority here are not mine? XD) Responders: 6 Acadia: 6 New Vegas Strip in general: 6 Lyons' Pride: 5 Children of Atom: 5 Megaton: 5 Gunners: 5 Boomers: 5 Powder Gangers: 5 Cult of the Mothman (all variations): 4 Crimson Caravan: 4 Chairmen: 4 Mojave Express: 4 Necropolis: 3 Shady Sands (pre-NCR): 3 Vault 13: 3 Twin Mothers: 3 Diamond City: 3 Freeside: 3 White Glove Society: 3 Vault-Tec: 3 Bishop family: 3 Regulators: 2 Tunnel Snakes: 2 New Canaan: 2 Gecko: 2 Settlers/Foundation: 2 Abolitionists/Temple of the Union: 2 Galaxy News Radio: 2 80s: 2 Desert Rangers: 2 Unity/Master's Army: 2 Vault 76: 2 US Government: 2 Broken Hills: 2 Sanctuary: 2 Blue Ridge Caravan Company: 2 Goodsprings: 2 Cutthroat raiders: 2 Feral ghouls: 2 Hub: 2 Ghouls in general: 2 Nuka-World in general: 2 Little Lamplight/Big Town: 2

And the list of factions with one response, allegedly for the sake of something called 'brevity': Boulder scientists, Vault City, Littlehorn & Associates, Jacobstown, New Reno, Brotherhood Outcasts, Marked Men, Mole Miners, Treeminders, Forged, Junktown, Triggermen, Free States, Vault 101, Vault 81, Slags, Hubris Comics, Bunker Hill, Rivet City, Van Graffs, Ug-Qualtoth, West Tek, Vault 95, Novac, Atom Cats, The Outer Worlds factions, Commonwealth Super Mutants, caravan companies in general

I was initially planning to include a separate 'ish' category for each faction, to account for characters that are aligned with factions unwillingly/temporarily/out of necessity, but looking at the dataset, that sort of situation was so much more prevalent than I realised and quickly made everything very clunky.

Main approach to problems

Diplomacy: 211 Combat: 147 Stealth: 101 Technical skills: 79 Avoidance: 53

And finally for now- preferred weapon type

Small guns: 191 Melee: 128 Energy weapons: 91 Big guns: 82 Avoids combat altogether: 49 Explosives: 27 Unarmed combat: 24

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As always, thank you to everyone who participated and gave me a little information about your OCs! If you'd ever like to talk more about them, my inbox is always open :D. Getting to learn about everyone's brainchildren is definitely my favourite aspect of my tangential foray into the Fallout fandom sphere.

My future plan for this dataset includes… a lot of pie charts, to put it mildly. As I've done for past survey datasets, I'll be compiling pie charts for each question, separating responses by the game that the characters are from, and we'll see if any trends emerge!

[bigendering]

Hello! I’ve been debating my gender for quite a while now but I'm super confused in my identity. I really like the sound of bigender, it makes me feel really comfortable. But I don't think I properly fit into it due to the fact even though yes I am both a girl and a boy at the same time, I still identify with neutrois, genderfluid, and nonbinary? Would I technically be called pangender?? Because sometimes I feel that my “boy side” and “girl side” mix and create these other parts of me that are fluid. What would that be called?

The core of bigenderism is being/having two genders. So if that feels most accurate to you, you’re bigender. Those genders can interact in weird ways, so you can certainly have many more than two gender experiences while still being bigender - like if your two genders are boy and girl, but sometimes when you’re both it results in you feeling very androgynous and neither one nor the other, that’s still bigender. Genderfluid isn’t mutually exclusive with bigender, and the combination is very common. Nonbinary is an umbrella term, so all bigender people are nonbinary. Neutrois is one of the older nonbinary terms that has a lot of nuance and different definitions, so it’s very possible to identify with that term while also being boy/girl bigender. For that last part, I don’t know of a specific term, but the fluidity part makes me think both bigender and genderfluid would fit for at least that aspect.

[multigenderswag]

Survey Results: Anything Else Relevant

In the open ended question “share anything else you find relevant about your multigender identity,” 72 participants (4.88%) stated that being a system was a relevant part of their multigender identity, and 24 participants (1.63%) stated that being intersex was a relevant part of their multigender identity.

Some other responses that stood out: 

"Gender is diverse and vast. It is beautiful and it's often whatever makes me happy. My experience of gender cannot be the same as anyone else's and I like that. It's part of who I am at my core and is proof that even that part of me is not static."

"I am who I am. If other people want to assign me a gender, that's their problem. Sometimes I wear a gender like an outfit, sometimes it's who I am, and sometimes I resent the whole concept. My body and my clothes are a way to express my creativity, and gender is one of the paintbrushes. I contain multitudes."

"1. I prefer a different definition of bigender. I use it in the same way people use bisexual: that I am two OR MORE genders. 2. I technically use all pronouns but I only put my primary ones in the survey. 3. I haven’t seen a term for this before but I see my sexuality as being “straight both ways” meaning that I am attracted to men as a woman and attracted to women as a man. My only attraction that feels gay is any attraction towards other nonbinary people."

"I eat gender for breakfast lunch and dinner!!! I'll eat you too!!!!!!! Watch out!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"If I visualize my gender it's as if I am wholely a girl. My girlness is a solid sphere. My boyness is softer and hazier and surrounds the sphere. That's the best way I have to describe it!"

"Despite fitting the 'definition' of nonbinary as in 'not binary man or woman' I genuinely hate using it as a term for myself and only use it through gritted teeth as just quick shorthand. It's mainly because 'nonbinary' in the public eye has become less of an umbrella term and more of a 'third gender' with its own 'gender role' (not too masc, but not too femme, unless you're 'making a statement' and usually society treats those folks as complete jokes) There was a comic I saw about boxes. First there are two, then there are many, but finally the main person says 'ARGH!! NO MORE BOXES!!' That really captures how I feel. I hate having to put labels on myself and when i can feel people figuring out what box to put me in. I'd like to just BE ME and slide between whatever role and presentation I feel fits at the moment without people thinking I'm 'lying' or 'faking' or 'too queer' or 'not trans enough"' I hate all the labels and gender essentialism that comes with it. I just can't work in this binary framework, and I don't WANT to have to be an activist just to have permission to exist. I just want to live my life. At this point I just state my identity based on which flag I think looks nicest at the time."

"Gender is a highway and I'm riding down it the wrong way on a tricycle"

"I never really understood gender in general, and as such identity with aspects of many. I think that everyone’s gender fluctuates every so often and that it’s A-okay to not fully understand your own gender."

[my-castles-crumbling]

Tell me if I’m wrong, but can I be Genderqueer, Nonbinary and Demigirl all at the same time?

OR

Genderqueer, Non binary and Agender?

(Still working out the agender/demigirl bit)

Or would that make me Bigender or Trigender if that’s a thing?

Or just like one of the terms? Such as maybe agender

Hi!

Okay. Okay so.

Short answer? Yes, to both the first and second question.

Basically, to me, genderqueer is any gender that is not a gender in the binary. Kind of a vaguer term than nonbinary. demigirl and agender (again, to ME) are part of the genderqueer/nonbinary umbrella.

So yes, you can be more than one thing. Both of those combinations are logical.

As far as bigender, that means you specifically identify as TWO genders (either you fluxuate between them or you posses traits of both all the time). So no, bigender would not be the same as agender/demigirl. I honestly haven't heard of trigender, but that doesn't mean anything- I'm always learning.

You could also just identify as one term, if that's more comfortable to you! It's kind of your preference that matters here- similar to how some nonbinary people identify as trans but others don't. What feels good to you?

This page has a lot of definitions and might be helpful as well :)

Lots of love! <3

[a-tale-of-legends]

Like. Hm. In general, I've been thinking of Jin and their gender/ pronouns for a while. I still like they/them, and I'm gonna stick with that, but knowing how they are, I don't think it was a direct " oh I'm nonbinary and want to use they/them", you know?

Like maybe they thought they were a trans woman, but then that felt off, so then they thought they were Bigender or Genderfluid, but that also felt Specific. And then they go " well, I do feel an attachment to these identities, but they also don't fully fit, so...." Then they remember that the label nonbinary exists, and it's kinda the umbrella term for literally everything else they liked but didn't feel like it fit labels so. They've been using the label ever since.

As for pronouns I think the timeline goes: he/him -> she/her -> he/she -> she/they -> they/them( <- current and on going)

They like being referred to as Mx, partner, etc. But I can also see them liking specific gendered terms but only for specific people. Like they're okay with their parents sometimes calling them their son, or if Kohaku or Wally call them their wife ( I don't think the three are married but they act like they are lmao). But it's only those people who can call them that. Anyone else will be on sight. To be clear, Jin generally prefers more gender neutral terms, but doesn't hate it when people they care about use gendered terms occasionally ( cause a small part of Jin is still attached to being "Norman's Son" and whenever Amber or Wally calls Jin their wife they melt lmao)

Hopefully all of this makes sense lol.

[velvetvexations]

i personally am bigender/androgyne and consider that under the nonbinary umbrella. i think theres a lot of confusion about what constitutes nonbinary genders bc a lot of people seem to interpret it as being a gender itself exclusively and not an umbrella term. imo to be a binary gender you have to fully identify with male OR female exclusively. "boy" and "girl" arent binary genders because "binary" doesn't necessarily describe these genders specifically, but rather our adherence to a system that expects normative sex (binary + perisex + cis male or female). the "and" part of bigender sort of necessarily is excluded from being perceived and treated as binary, bc being both inherently breaks the expected system

bigender also isnt exclusively male+female. im bigender in that i am two not-binary genders.

(i know that bigender ppl can consider themselves whatever they want lol theres no rules im just sharing my personal interpretation! esp as someone who doesnt actually Identify As nonbinary but rather feels Categorized Under nonbinary)

that's also been my understanding of it as someone who presents as a binary transfem singlet

[genderstarbucks]

Quote from one of your posts that I’m focusing on “also calling cis neptunic men and cis uranic women "people trying so hard to be queer"”

Mf, while I may not be fuckin’ cis man who is neptunic (I’m Bigender masc leaning and Neptinic). Dude you can’t just say someone is queer because they don’t your damn standards. Neptunic and Uranic are meant to be used by ANYONE, it’s not something you can gatekeep for your own sensibilities. Not to mention, a cis person who uses the Neptunic or Uranic label may also be using it for other reasons that they may not be able to completely understandable. Such as how people describe their attractions to people being inherently queer in nature even if it’s under the “appearance” of being straight. I apologize for the rant, that just annoyed me.

(This whole thing is directed to the “people trying hard to be queer” comment person not you.)

OML I GOT SO SCARED YOU WERE TALKING TO ME LMFAO

AND YEAH

NEPTUNIC AND URANIC ARE MEANT TO BE USED BY ANYBODY

They're not just for nonbinary people, cis people can use them too, and if they do, then they're not straight

But yeah, people can't just determine who's queer and who's not, if you're even a little bit queer, you're still queer (you don't have to call yourself queer ofc but you'd still be a part of the community)

And honestly

I rlly only see people say this stuff about cis/het people in the community, no one would ever tell a cis gay man that they're not queer enough, but if they're neptunic or asexual, then nope, not queer enough apparently

There's no such thing as "not queer enough" or "trying to be queer"

If you're queer, you're fucking queer, nobody else can determine whether you can say you're queer or not because "you're basically just cishet"

Cis men neptunics? Queer

Cis women uranics? Queer

Heteroromantic asexual? Queer

Aromantic heterosexual? Queer

Straight trans men? Queer

Straight trans women? Queer

Straight nonbinary people? Queer

Anybody under the trans umbrella who's still connected to their agab? Queer

Ftm rosboys? Queer

Mtf azurgirls? Queer

Cishet gnc people? Queer

Heteroflexible cis people? Queer

Multisexual cis people who prefer the opposite gender? Queer

Cis straightcians? Queer

Cis straightbians? Queer

Cis achillean women? Queer

Cis sapphic men? Queer

Cis lesboys? Queer

Cis turigirls? Queer

Etc, etc.

If your identity is under the queer umbrella at all, you're still allowed to call yourself queer, even if you have other identities that aren't necessarily queer

[verdantmeadows]

Adora and Catra are so sapphillean. To me.

Adora is a bisexual achillean lesbian intersex transfemmasc. (I know achillean is more synonymous with sapphic but I'm using lesbian to mean sapphic and I also don't remember the MLM word that is equivalent to lesbian.) She doesn't sort her gender through being bigender although she's technically bigender. Her male parts (penis) are a trans lesbian (MTF/transfem loves women) and her female parts (vulva/vagina) are a trans achillean/gay guy (FTM/transmasc loves men). As a whole she's technically bisexual but her sexuality is split in half between her genitalia. She can do this because intersex people can do anything forever. If you don't let intersex people have sexuality and gender fuckery you HATE intersex people. She uses he/she pronouns and prefers she/her for closer individuals.

Catra much prefers labelling as nonbinary completely and her junk and whatever transfem transmasc FTNB MTNB shit is none of your business. Her sexuality is whatever you assume hers to be. She's everything and nothing. If you ask her if she's a lesbian, she's a lesbian. If you ask her if she's a gay guy she's a gay guy. She's definitely sapphillean and loves anyone gayly so the umbrella term for her sexuality fuckery is bisexual, but, again, she's whatever you want her to be. She uses she/he/they pronouns. She's catgirl catboy catboygirl catthing supreme. She can do this because she's nonbinary and nonbinary people can do anything they want ever.

They're also both demirose and were each other's first and only awakenings of any sort. This is crucial for the codependent yuri yaoisms of Catradora.

[your-bigender-big-brother]

i feel like i'm getting confuzzled over gender again

i think i've always known myself as a masc enby. it's what fits and is easiest to explain to people, but it feels like it doesn't manage to include that i feel agender at the same time. like one part is gender and one part is not.

what does that mean? is it considered bigender?

sorry for the ask

Hello, confuzzled anon!

Agender falls under the nonbinary umbrella, so "enby masc" does technically include it. But you can say agendermasc, masc agender, or anything similar.

You don't have to consider it bigender, if the masc part isn't a gender to you. That part's entirely your choice! - 💙💚