Thread:Monollama/@comment-11883116-20191003220930/@comment-11883116-20200623231108



Hi. I noticed this wiki is pretty much the only place to refer to Imposter with genderfluid "they" pronouns. I believe the admins decided so because of this picture, correct?

The topic can definitely be even more controversial than Chihiro's gender prior to official translation. However, in the end, both sides have some good points. That file doesn't confirm Imposter identifies as non-binary, it just means HPA's staff had no data on his true gender. For example, he definitely has a blood type and it could be easily checked with a blood sample test.

His tue appearance and voice seem more masculine and his only impersonations that we know of are all male characters (Byakuya, Ryota, Munakata), but of course this is merely just a trivia, as it doesn't mean he identifies as a male.

However, there are a few instances in the game where he's referred to with masculine pronouns in the game, even when talking about Imposter as Imposter rather than Byakuya or someone else. Those instances are: Monokuma after the whole Imposter reveal (and considering he has data on everyone, I would trust him), Hajime even after hearing Imposter's true story in their FTEs and School Mode ending (though this doesn't confirm anything, especially since he only does so in his mind, so Imposter doesn't have a chance to correct him), and Imposter himself when referring to his own past in their last FTE ("Let me tell you an interesting story about a certain man... This man was born with nothing.", "His existence was completely invisible... He was a person whose life had no meaning whatsoever...").

A similar case seems to be with all the robot characters (so all Kumas and K1-B0), who technically don't have gender, but use masculine or feminine pronouns and are counted as male or female characters respectively.

And yet, this doesn't confirm anything either. After all, a non-binary person may prefer masculine or feminine pronouns over genderfluid ones. For example, Gems from Steven Universe all use female pronouns, but all are genderless characters who are counted as non-binary.

There's also the paradox that regardless of Imposter identifying as a male or as non-binary, he would be closer to having an identity, which he claims he doesn't have. The same issue is with him actually having his own personality (which we actually know).

So yeah, keeping all points above, Imposter's gender is indeed unknown and it's impossible to tell for 100% whether he's male or non-binary. I merely listed all those points because I'm curious about the decision to use "they" pronouns on the wiki instead of "he" used in the official English translation. Was this based solely on that CG or was there something from the original Japanese version that I don't know of taken into account? Did the admins simply forget about the English translation still using male pronouns when Imposter is reffered to as Imposter on those few instances I mentioned?

Thanks in advance for your answer!