#he will just regenerate to the point when Metatron merged with him and healed the damage that killed him

[beetlelark]

Thinking about immortality and gender for immortal or very long lived beings, and how being that long lived it would make a lot of sense that as you get up there in the years that your connection to gender probably disconnects and/or changes/becomes very fluid— especially for beings who become immortal but their kind maybe aren’t meant to live that long? Idk, just thinking about how immortality and living for a very long time would slowly alter your perception of everything, including personal gender identity and expression.

I always kinda wonder at like characters that are thouuuusands of years old but are very firm in their gender and it hasn’t changed since day one, and like no shade to anyone who’s oc is that way! I just wonder what the character’s inner psychology would be about their gender and how it’s stayed the same since day one when they’ve lived for so so long, and experienced so much that would likely fundamentally change someone many times over.

Like I think about vampires a lot for this topic because in most cases vampires originate from humans. Humans aren’t meant to live forever. Being a vampire and living well past a humans lifespan (what you originated as) I feel there would be a lot of gender identity struggles and exploration, and eventual possible numbness/indifference to the whole concept in and of itself once a vampire gets into the thousands? Would there be like an unspoken knowledge in vampire society about that? Support groups lol? Does a vampire’s sire sort of help guide them through something as personal as that over time (if the sire is available)? Is it like a Rite of Passage to eventually have a breakdown of and over your gender and how you think of/express it for vampires?

These sorts of things I think about a lot and not just for vampires!! Elves are (usually) a naturally immortal or at least long lived race, and they aren’t humans or from humans (in most cases.) So like elven gender and expression of gender can be a really interesting topic too, and applying human perceptions and binaries to it I often think can’t work with their lifespans. But that’s just me!

Or beings like faeries and dragons. A lot of fantasy and/or non-human races, even if not immortal or long-lived, I think would have sometimes very different structures of gender identity in their society/kind. I don’t think human perception and structure could apply to all of them, because they aren’t human. They’re sentient (at least the kinds I’m talking about) but not human. So applying human ways of doing and thinking things that are like that I feel doesn’t really take full advantage of how cool and interesting worldbuilding different societies and povs of specific concepts like gender can be.

The whole topic of immortality and how it could/can affect gender identity/expression is like interesting to me to think about and theorize.