#dane fallout

originally i thought it was pretty cool that fallout prime cast a trans guy to play a nonbinary character in the brotherhood of steel and just didn't explain it at all like "fuck you we just liked the character and they're awesome" and that's right because dane is awesome but as season 2 has only introduced more and more evidence of the brotherhood of steel having insane gender roles and policies of outright gender segregation from chapter to chapter, their coy approach to how a nonbinary person got accepted into the mojave chapter's all-male homosocial military and has their pronouns respected by everybody around them is only having more and more batshit implications for the brotherhood's gender politics and again it's not that i'm complaining about Dane at all because they're one of the best characters in the show but it's that i'm FASCINATED by those implications. like it'd be one thing if the actor was just playing cis (kind of like patti harrison in that one movie where she gets pregnant) but dane is explicitly non-binary! like could you fucking imagine trying to explain non-binary gender to quintus. to fucking quintus.