#you can spin this and they would all be satisfying to Mizu as a character.

[apatura-ires]

Mizu’s relationship with their gender is very very complicated and we MUST acknowledge that.

No one should have to justify why they think Mizu is one thing or the other, because Mizu’s past, their environment (how it treats women) and their negative associations with being a woman, can easily make a case for Mizu wanting to be a woman, or for Mizu preferring to be a guy. If I see ANY of you get mad at people for thinking Mizu is either a strictly a man or strictly a woman, or something out of the binary, I am going to GET you.

Any HC to do with Mizu’s gender has narrative merit and importance to Mizu’s character, and one does not make Mizu less complex than the other. One does not make less sense than the other. One does not MEAN less than the other. And even if it’s not about the narrative significance of them being trans or cis, and it’s more about how you think the character is coded, or even just their vibes, that’s fine too. A HC doesn’t need a justification.

[notanotherfandombloge]

#mizus gender is an enigma and a mystery. mizu is gender apathetic. to ME. mizu couldn’t care less.#that said. trauma related to gender doesn’t automatically cause someone to be trans. likewise however trauma related to gender doesn’t mean#they’ll wanna be their birth gender once they past their trauma. as Mizu is now#we can’t be sure and that’s fine.#the trauma of being a woman can also be very very separate from Mizu wanting to be trans too btw. like there’s a thousand different ways#you can spin this and they would all be satisfying to Mizu as a character.

#YES !!!! You worded it so well!!!!#the only thing I’d have to add is that I feel like even if you think mizu is cis it’s worth acknowledging the other aspects of the story#that sort of challenge that (even though I am pretty sure mizu will become more comfortable with being a woman later on rather than -#- transition completely to a man or deciding to be non-binary vice versa and etc)#because it is important to mizu’s character as a whole that you look at those points in the story and how mizu reacted to it and how we -#- think they probably felt!#sorry for the edited tags I rb’d this and realized I had more to say#coming back again. meant this in regards to Mizu as a whole not just their gender (via forgetmenautical)

#there’s nothing more to add here tbh these are just good tags#100% cis Mizu is interesting BECAUSE of the things that signal possible queerness makes it so#acknowledging the queer aspects of Mizu (esp if u think she’s cis) is important bcus it’s not only good for the character but it’s good to#just acknowledge and understand where people are coming from.#also like. not to make Mizu’s character all abt their gender but so much abt what’s interesting abt them is surrounded by their gender and#the roles they’ve been performing bcus of it. (via apatura-ires)

Mizu’s relationship with their gender is very very complicated and we MUST acknowledge that.

No one should have to justify why they think Mizu is one thing or the other, because Mizu’s past, their environment (how it treats women) and their negative associations with being a woman, can easily make a case for Mizu wanting to be a woman, or for Mizu preferring to be a guy. If I see ANY of you get mad at people for thinking Mizu is either a strictly a man or strictly a woman, or something out of the binary, I am going to GET you.

Any HC to do with Mizu’s gender has narrative merit and importance to Mizu’s character, and one does not make Mizu less complex than the other. One does not make less sense than the other. One does not MEAN less than the other. And even if it’s not about the narrative significance of them being trans or cis, and it’s more about how you think the character is coded, or even just their vibes, that’s fine too. A HC doesn’t need a justification.