#to him “male” means nothing beyond being an extension of “salarian” aka “alien” aka “different from people I know” | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

rawliverandcigarettes · 10 months ago

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just realized never explicitely mentioned it in here I think, but my oc Shlee is very much nonbinary. like he just never really had time/community to process what it would mean for him specifically, how that would inform the way he'd like the world to perceive him or his gender presentation or whatnot, but shlee's experience of being alive is Absolutely (and inescapably) genderqueer. How could it not be.

#shlee #ok when I typed shlee my tags wanted me to write shleepy #which #good job past me you earned a chuckle #but when you're a salarian male raised by asari and isolated from the world #and then when you do get out of the world you let everybody gender you in whichever way is more convenient #and it means basically nothing to you #like #to him “male” means nothing beyond being an extension of “salarian” aka “alien” aka “different from people I know”#but I don't think he would place any value on being male outside of that --he wouldn't even know he's supposed to or what that involves #especially since there's no clear external secondary way of telling the difference in his species anyway #also: being raised by the asari #what even is gender to him at this point but a vague concept as abstract as administrative districts #especially for someone who doesn't have any legal recognition of his existence #anyway I don't know why I felt like writing meta about Shlee again after a year of radio silence #I don't know I was just thinking about my little guy!!!

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