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Lucy ([personal profile] luciazephyr) wrote2008-11-24 05:42 pm
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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?

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[identity profile] leaper182.livejournal.com 2008-11-23 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would you be confused about what pronoun to use for Desire?

[identity profile] poppyash.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
"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".

[identity profile] polaris-starz.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] gundamtsubasa.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 11:10 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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