post delta////rune ch.5 thoughts (not really spoilers more about fandom response)
the delta///rune fandom's really taught me some interesting lessons in the past week or so. i guess you only get your pronouns respected and defended if the fandom already views you as trans, and using pronouns the game doesn't use is fine as long as enough people think someone is an egg. "it's my headcanon that this character is a different gender/uses different pronouns than what the game states" is simultaneously invalidating someone's identity, and completely acceptable and worthy of celebration depending entirely on personal opinion
when you preemptively change pronouns for a character based on a theory, no matter what your evidence is and regardless of what the game eventually says for that character, you are not that far removed from "mancountry and the boy's deodorant in the bathroom means kr///is is a boy and i can use he/him".
i'm not trying to be the fun police for trans headcanons and i have tons of them myself across the gender spectrum. i don't even think it's a bad theory and i understand why people are drawn to it. if it turns out to be correct, i would like to trust that it'll be done in a satisfying way. but it's not canon in the game as we know it.
if it's not okay to use he/him for kr////is even if the person doing it has textual evidence for their headcanon, then it's not okay to she/her ral////sei at this point in time.
and please don't cry goomba fallacy. i've seen people in my own life who get upset with people using binary pronouns for kr////is who are now full steam on using she/her for ral////sei and getting in their feelings when you point out it's no different from the thing they called misgendering.
note: this is tangentially related, but the claim that "the game stops using he/him after [line]" is demonstrably false. there is solid evidence for the theory that i would consider good foreshadowing if it turns out to be correct, but lying about what the game actually says isn't helping the case. the game keeps using he/him right through the end of the chapter and the only exceptions is a single "they" from someone who doesn't know him, and a line with an ambiguous subject that might not even be about him in the first place.
