androgynous characters or gendered ones?

[ohno dannie]

its honestly hard to tell the genders of some of the villagers, especially if their eyes dont have obvious eyelashes (for the girls) and the guys dont wear something that tends to be super masculine (a colour or design more associated with girls)

sometimes, their names are also pretty androgynous

do you guys tend to go for the more obviously gendered villagers or the ones where you dont know until you talk to them or know their name?

i prefer androgynous ones (im non-binary so that might be a lil part of it)

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

I actually don't really consider their gender. If I find them cute, then I like them ^_^ I think Tabby looks androgynous, but I love her! Cute knows no gender ;P

 

[chainosaur]

I can't say I've ever thought about that sort of thing too deeply. If I click with them, then they're a keeper haha.

 

[Alicia]

Honestly, I've never really thought about, I tend to just go with villagers that I like the design of and that I connect with.

 

[Utsukishi]

I usually go for ones I like, but NH did make the androgynous theme more obvious for all villagers. Everyone uses 'they/them' pronouns from what ive seen, and their text bubbles match their colour schemes, unline in previous games that had pink for female and blue for male villagers

 

[DJStarstryker]

I don't really care about their gender.

Honestly, same is true of all video game characters. I don't feel a special attachment to any just because one is male or one is female or one is androgynous or one is nonbinary. I like who I like. I tend to like a wide variety of character types in video games.

 

[Uffe]

I used to think Mira was a male in New Leaf. But at the same time the name came off as feminine. I hadn't realized she even had lipstick in New Leaf. I also used to think Fang was a female up until recently. I've never had him as a villager, but I have seen him online.

 

[Bioness]

#Gracie and Saharah are male and will not conform to your dated gender norms

 

[Romaki]

I just go with whoever I like, their gender really wouldn't change their appeal to me.

 

[chainosaur]

#Gracie and Saharah are male and will not conform to your dated gender norms

You know in regards to Saharah, I always thought it was so odd that he was gendered as female out here? Is it because of the eyelashes? That's silly because camels just naturally have long lashes. :U

 

[Xara]

i don’t really consider their gender. i like villagers regardless of their gender ;u;

 

[axo]

I like villagers regardless of gender, BUT there are certain personalities I like better and personalities just happen to be gendered... for example, i really love lazies and they're all male, but i don't like them *because* they're male.

 

[dino]

i don't think animals subscribe to the outdated concept of gender so it makes me happy to unsubscribe as well

 

[Fye]

I don't think about their gender so much as their personality type. As long as I have a balanced game with only 1-2 of each personality type I'm good. Though I love androgynous fashion and have maintained it with my character (despite her name Doe making it obvious that she's a girl)

but I'm definitely not into the hyper-feminine ones, that's probably why I like the uchis so much

 

[ohno dannie]

#Gracie and Saharah are male and will not conform to your dated gender norms

i didnt know saharah was a guy????

 

[Envy]

I've been playing since the GCN, so I automatically associate gender with the personality types. It's just hard wired in me, like Snooty's are always female, and Lazy's are always male.

 

[Bioness]

i didnt know saharah was a guy????

They are female in the internal versions, male in the Japanese and Korean ones.

 

[Rubombee]

EDIT: I forgot to actually comment on the thread haha, I wish personalities weren't tied to gender, like @DoeReMi I care more about the personalities than actual gender :'D

#Gracie and Saharah are male and will not conform to your dated gender norms

They are female in the international versions, male in the Japanese and Korean ones.

Yeah that's the kind of bad decision that I imagine they're sticking with for consistency >_>
I just learned about this with this opus and I've decided to headcanon them as genderfluid cause it fits every version :D

 

[TheodoreCottontail]

I haven't thought about it much but I've noticed some of my friends call villagers a different pronoun then I thought they were. Like Rocket for example, my friend called them he & I thought they were a female villager. Not that it makes much of a difference.

 

[cloudmask]

#Gracie and Saharah are male and will not conform to your dated gender norms

i knew this abt gracie but had no idea about saharah....localization teams wyd

i don't really consider gender presentation in my villagers, i just choose the ones i like! some are more traditionally feminine/masculine and some are more androgynous.