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The siren’s of Pearl and a word on non-binary non-humans.

Indeed, all the sirens in Pearl are non-binary! Since Perle and Dejean have a conversation about their cultural views of gender, I won’t go into details here, but they do find the human concepts of gender pretty silly, (though that doesn’t mean Perle won’t respect their human friend’s genders!)

While we’re talking about non-binary sirens, I would like to mention that you should avoid writing non-binary non-humans (in a world where humans exist) unless it’s made clear that there are also non-binary humans in that world.

It’s a pretty frightening pattern within storytelling to depict only non-humans as being non-binary, and while each story on its own may have good and interesting non-binary non-humans, when there are such an impossibly small number of non-binary human characters ever written it starts to paint the idea that being non-binary means you’re really not quite human at all.

“Catalysmic” Character Moodboard: Sekam & Ahl

S E K A M

demigoddess | shapeshifter | savior

A H L

god | moose | nihilist

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I guess you didn’t see this post, but that’s okay. I go into more detail there, but essentially, her character doesn’t serve any real purpose to the story and she’s kind of redundant/repetitive.

hi!

woahh, she sounds very powerful and i love it. i don’t know her yet but i already aspire to that level of queendom (even though i’m way too short).

then move along to the middle chapters! very excited to see what you come up with :)

Yay!!!!! *hugs you really a lot very much forever* :)

I’m so happy that you like it! I love writing Gunky because he’s so amusing and so much my opposite, and I like writing silly funny things. :)