mizuena art w/o the nonbinary tag everyone cheered (i hope this doesn't lead to that tag being added pretty please dont do that)
beardog
Dec 6, 2025 12:39AM
i love mizuena so much
BreadBunny
Dec 6, 2025 5:33AM
ough yeah, like not fun to see Mizuki being effectively degendered through the nonbinary tag when she is by all accounts just a trans woman whose story is very strongly about how she made herself sick with the thought of being outed as trans which then happened to her...
last edited at Dec 6, 2025 5:38AM
myrrhmidon
Dec 6, 2025 11:09AM
MizuEna very cute!
JerrySmalls
Dec 6, 2025 4:18PM
Mizuki's story absolutely screams transfem and it makes the most sense to me, but it's not wrong to consider them non-binary. It's not confirmed either way and we don't get what they're preferred pronouns are cause that doesn't really exist in Japanese.
Assuming their pronouns are "she/her" and that they have to be transfem is just as presumptuous as saying they're 100% non-binary, both interpretations are consistent with the story and acceptable.
Aureole
Dec 6, 2025 6:51PM
^ "When it's not said, tag nb" is not that different from "when it's not said, judge by their outlook, reactions and co." though.
Doctor_Hoot
Dec 6, 2025 7:30PM
^^Mizuki went out of her way to present as a girl for her friend group, wanted her friends to assume that she's a girl, which is just generally a girl thing to do, with not much evidence to the contrary that I know of. (She could only be outed as trans to Ena if Ena assumed that Mizuki was a cis girl.) As for Mizuki being nonbinary, that is a separate (though not unrelated) question. "Nonbinary" is not a gender, but an umbrella term for gender identities that take more words to explain than strictly just "male" or "female".
As for pronouns, Mizuki effectively doesn't "have" any as long as she's in a Japanese environment. I prefer using she/her for her because otherwise I feel like I'm singling her out from her group just because she's trans. But I just see this as an artifact of discussing her in English, not a case of Mizuki "having" these pronouns.
blueherin Dec 5, 2025 9:02PM
mizuena art w/o the nonbinary tag everyone cheered (i hope this doesn't lead to that tag being added pretty please dont do that)
beardog Dec 6, 2025 12:39AM
i love mizuena so much
BreadBunny Dec 6, 2025 5:33AM
ough yeah, like not fun to see Mizuki being effectively degendered through the nonbinary tag when she is by all accounts just a trans woman whose story is very strongly about how she made herself sick with the thought of being outed as trans which then happened to her...
last edited at Dec 6, 2025 5:38AM
myrrhmidon Dec 6, 2025 11:09AM
MizuEna very cute!
JerrySmalls Dec 6, 2025 4:18PM
Mizuki's story absolutely screams transfem and it makes the most sense to me, but it's not wrong to consider them non-binary. It's not confirmed either way and we don't get what they're preferred pronouns are cause that doesn't really exist in Japanese.
Assuming their pronouns are "she/her" and that they have to be transfem is just as presumptuous as saying they're 100% non-binary, both interpretations are consistent with the story and acceptable.
Aureole Dec 6, 2025 6:51PM
^ "When it's not said, tag nb" is not that different from "when it's not said, judge by their outlook, reactions and co." though.
Doctor_Hoot Dec 6, 2025 7:30PM
^^Mizuki went out of her way to present as a girl for her friend group, wanted her friends to assume that she's a girl, which is just generally a girl thing to do, with not much evidence to the contrary that I know of. (She could only be outed as trans to Ena if Ena assumed that Mizuki was a cis girl.) As for Mizuki being nonbinary, that is a separate (though not unrelated) question. "Nonbinary" is not a gender, but an umbrella term for gender identities that take more words to explain than strictly just "male" or "female".
As for pronouns, Mizuki effectively doesn't "have" any as long as she's in a Japanese environment. I prefer using she/her for her because otherwise I feel like I'm singling her out from her group just because she's trans. But I just see this as an artifact of discussing her in English, not a case of Mizuki "having" these pronouns.
last edited at Dec 6, 2025 8:02PM