it is now time for me to randomly admit that the “prixic system” [something i made years ago] was originally meant for my OCs, and had i made it today they’d be ecters, not genders

basically, i was trying to capture how these characters who are Nonhumans fundamentally do not experience “gender,” but their society still had something closely resembling the binary genders and the roles / stereotypes we put onto them. they were being imitated by people observing humanity, but still fundamentally outside of it. they didn’t fully understand what the words “man” “woman” “masculine” “feminine” etc. meant to humans, but an approximation was still enforced as closely as possible among a very different society / culture (because the powerful members of said society is Fucked Up And Hierarchical and Loves To Create Division)

so it’s really really funny looking back at these and realizing “oh yeah, i was totally trying to conceive of the idea of an ecter before i ever coined the concept”

ALT