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astranauticus · 11 days ago

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was talking to my friends about this but i love how you have two kinds of gender neutral chinese pronouns in fandom (since chinese doesn't have gender neutral third person pronouns): the chinese limbus company fandom referring to dante as 祂 (a third person pronoun specifically for gods and deities) and medicine pocket reverse 1999 canonically using 它 (it)

#asto speaks #two kinds of (genderless) people #fwiw i personally really appreciate bluepoch using 它 for medpoc bc i feel like there's a tendency in chinese to use 他/he #as a sort of gender neutral pronoun so i was really worried that's what they'd go for with medpoc #like the fact that they used it instead just reads as like. bluepoch fully committing to the genderless characterisation. which is very cool #limbus on the other hand to my knowledge doesn't have an official chinese version so dante using 祂 seems to entire be a fanon thing #which tbf i think is the case for dante using they them in english too #the closest english equivalent to 祂 would probably be like the capital H He they use for jesus in the bible #which is what the arknights localisation people did for ishar'mla which im still a little mad about #yknow how they use He for ishar'mla in the is3 endings yeah it wasn't gendered in the original chinese. now you know #the inspiration for this thought was a parenthetical aside in a completely unrelated lcb post i saw on lofter yesterday that was like #性别为钟的祂应该上哪个厕所 (given that dante's gender is clock what bathroom do they use)#fhdhhfhsgdhd

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