#please keep doing it

You'd be 100% correct, I've been in the fandom for years and it's constantly overlooked. (My guess is because people constantly 'he/him' Ren and want to put them into the 'Hot Yandere Man' group/trope despite them being nonbinary)

I WROTE AN ENTIRE ELABORATE ANSWER AND IT DIDNT SAVE AS A DRAFT IM DEVASTATED. But. i'll try to rewrite what i originally had. starting with i was TERRIFIED of posting that cuz i thought i was gonna get flamed lolol 🙈🙈🙈🙈

and yeah! i completely agree with you anon! it definitely reminds me of my lived experiences as a masc presenting non-binary individual. i strictly use he/him now (for the ease of others, though i use he/they in private) i prefer masc gendered compliments and descriptors rather than gender neutral (again, for ease of others, though it has grown on me)

i saw another person put in the tags of that post state that it "feels like the game doesn't explore it, either" (paraphrasing, rewording, etc..) and.. yeah! sort of? on one hand, i would like to give the benefit of the doubt to the game and its writing. we are only on day five of fourteen days, so i'm sure there is a lot of information we are missing.

to me, ren (the persona) is also putting on the act of a man for the reader. whether that's because that's what the reader desires, societal expectations, or another thing... ren is playing the act of a man. [REDACTED], on the other hand, seems more gender neutral to me? non binary? whatever terms you want to use? that's his real self, so i'm going to assume that bitch has transgender energy.

game writing aside, of course, there is no denying that it definitely feels like the fandom treats ren still as a man, and use their non binary identity to put them in traditionally "unmasculine" clothing, situations, etc etc. (and, to me, it just reminds me of 2020 when cis men would attempt to act gender non conforming to get views, female attention, etc etc.........)

i wish the fandom EXPLORED why or how ren is nonbinary. when did they figure that out? how did they figure it out? is it simply non binary, or is there another gender label they fall under? have they experiemented with other pronouns? WHY ARE YOU NON BINARY?????

my fear is that ren is non binary due to their dads treatment when he was a kid. are you non binary because your dad forcibly feminized you as a child?? are you non binary just to be with the reader regardless of their orientation or identity? because if so, that's... uhh...... if you're trans, you know 👀.

but, once again, this just.. reminds me of living life as a masculine individual. people assume i'm a man, they treat me like a man, and they even assume i romantically or sexually desire other men too. (i'm an open and out butch lesbian! have been for years) and it will always feel like men are the default. it's definitely hard to not feel that when... everyone acts that way!