^Shiver's confirmed a girl; in addition to in-game dialogue, someone actually bothered to write to Nintendo themselves to ask about Shiver's identity.
Apparently (and this is just based on a poor machine translation I did of a japanese tweet, so I may have misinterpreted something) Shiver is deliberately made to be androgynous because her character is based off Kabuki theatre, where actors were traditionally expected to play roles of the opposite gender (most well known were men playing the roles of women after female actors were banned, but Kabuki was originally an all-female thing).
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