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[luciazephyr]

Okay, um. Hal has to talk to Desire. And I'm kind of confused. Should I refer to Desire as "he" or "she" or something else entirely?

-Luce

Comments

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

Why would you be confused about what pronoun to use for Desire?

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

In Gaiman's Sandmanverse, Desire is consistently referred to as both/neither male or female, and the art reflects that.

[poppyash.livejournal.com]

"Ze" or "Xe" is sometimes used as a gender neutral pronoun in scifi fiction. Eg:
Ze laughed
I called hir
Hir eyes gleam
That is hirs
Ze likes hirself

Wikipedia has a page on gender neutral pronouns here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun

You could also just forsake pronouns and keep using "Desire". Then there's always singular "they".

[polaris-starz.livejournal.com]

I think in the comics Desire may have been referred to as an "it," but I don't have my tpbs on hand to reference, so I can't be sure.

[gundamtsubasa.livejournal.com]

I think I'd refer to the gender Desire is embodying at the time. Not a tit-for-tat "he, she, he, she" order, but maybe make it look a bit more random, possibly depending on the twists and turns of the conversation.