so i don’t like to do cisswap genderbenders for mostly transgender reasons but i’m fascinated by the changes in a cisswap kyrie and credo. i feel like they were raised in a very traditional gender roles family (society, even) so in canon credo became a knight and kyrie was the demure modest church goer who works at the orphanage and is preparing herself to marry and become a housewife.
in a genderbend situation i think that situation would change too. female!credo, as the older sister would feel forced to embrace a fully maternal role to raise her younger brother after their parents died. she’d probably become a nun and work with the order which would allow her to take on the same narrative role in dmc4. i don’t think she’d be a knight because once again gender roles. she’d be a stern and severe woman, presiding over the religious worship of the saviour one step below sanctus.
male!kyrie, if we carry her altruistic traits over, would feel the need to join the knights as the Male Provider Of The Family even if he dislikes violence his desire to protect would resonate with being a knight somewhat too.
carrying on with the idea that fortuna is a patriarchy, fem!nero could even be barred from joining the knights but she’d sneak in practice and kyrie would help her with that. nero thinks it’s unfair that kyrie who doesn’t even want to be a knight gets to join but nero isn’t allowed to. forcibly repressed nero who isn’t allowed as much leeway to rebel as canon!nero will be a much more explosive nero. i think her admiration of dante would be so much stronger too, seeing this immodest and vulgar woman barge into fortuna and disrupt the order, completely unlike the image of femininity she was taught her whole life. she’s half tracking her down to prove herself worthy to join the order as a knight, half because she’s a little obsessed.
