#its giving sayms mechs gender headcanons

[saym0-0]

c!joel is so very not cisgender man to me. im Thinking and theres so many possibilities,,, you don't understand,,

i think in my mcyteu, where he comes from mezelea, in her first language/culture gender and sex are just like. different. theres so many species there that dont fit into the same categories of male/female or the same categories as each other that sex has very little cultural impact beyond literally who you're having sex with.

gender, however, is a whole other thing. there are like. seven or so 'accepted' genders (meaning. accepted the same way man/woman are in this culture) and a ton more less widely identified with genders, pronouns too i either want to go with no gendered pronouns or a ton of different pronouns with different like situational uses on top of being linked to gender, im not quite sure yet.

i wont get super into that here because i dont want to but like point is, when joel first learnt english (common? whatever we're calling the language they all speak to each other with) he didn't quite understand the whole concept of it and just rolled with what other people called her, which, due to being a bearded vulture hybrid and having a beard (despite all lammergeier hybrids having beards), was usually he/him.

obviously as they got older and got a better grasp on the language and culture outside of mezalea, he got a better understanding of gender, but due to there not really being an equivalent to her gender and pronouns he just doesn't really care. doesn't bother telling people he uses all pronouns unless they ask

Human/bad dads au i think hes intersex, although genuinely i dont know enough about intersex like relationships with gender and stuff like that to develop this one fully yet, but im currently doing my research and ill get back ti you on this one. though i do think he uses majority masc things like dad/boys ext. the majority of the time

i have a hundred thousand aus and they're all overlapping but different, but those are the two ive been rotating in my mind the most. i think generally though joel is something close to agender, where its a bit situational? like usually its masc presenting masc pronouns but with some people its more fem/androgynous?? if that makes sense?? never fully a man or a woman but sometimes a bad boy sometimes a butch lesbian you know she's flexible. so maybe genderflux? but like chill about it she doesn't care that much