this is just a self indulgent, for-the-record type of post. i'm someone who doesn't have a lot of headcanons (which is a stark contrast from the last fandom i was in, glorified sandbox and all) but when it comes to like. sephiroth's gender. on my blog, i do see her as trans, close to transfem, but i'm not cemented on the label for her. i put it on my page because i don't want anyone thinking i draw her cisgender or that i see her as such lol

i personally interchangeably use he and she pronouns for sephiroth, as well as gendered terms in general, so i guess it would be more accurate to say i see her as gender-fluid. it makes the most sense to be honest. for me, i feel like putting her in a box just doesn't feel right at all. i always saw her "creating a new body for herself" (as it's said in the ultimania) as like, shedding any and all confines. i don't think labels can fully encompass what's going on with her, gender-wise.

i say she's trans because she's also just not cisgender, there's something going on there that the term cisgender just cannot be applied to her, in my head at least. so i consider this the one headcanon i have for sephiroth, otherwise i don't have any. like i can't think of one. and also i feel like a valid and more interesting interpretation of sephiroth's entire story and goal is seeing it as a transgender metaphor, there's been two people off the top of my head who have talked about this and like. published it!! and i prefer to keep my company with those who share this interpretation too, because of the layers of complexity it adds, and since all i ever want to do is talk about her complexity, it makes the fandom experience enjoyable for me :')

but gender and my relationship to it is just as complicated as explaining how i think sephiroth's relationship to gender is. i suppose i'm just projecting. the notion of creating a new body for yourself and ceasing to exist as the person you appear before others, hmm. relatable to me! so being in that position, i literally do not have a label for myself in any regard. i think similarly for sephiroth and apply it, personally.

i also use any and all gendered terms for myself, because i really just don't care, but i use them very flippantly. i do not care what i am lmfao the lion does not concern itself. again i kind of project this onto sephiroth only because of how. agendered she is. the pronouns too i feel like is just bullshitting, for me at least. using 'he' for sephiroth doesn't mean i think sephiroth is a man and using 'she' for sephiroth doesn't mean i think sephiroth is a woman. it's just more complicated than that.