Talk:Roguefort Cookie/@comment-172.9.53.4-20200620180948/@comment-32094364-20200620195834

The truth is...we don't know! There's a lot of unclear information about why things get translated the way they do, and why things are so vague in English when much of the other translations are so much more direct. It's believed part of the reason is simply because English is able to be a much more vague language, and for many of the Cookies (Roguefort not included in that) the ones that are vague are mythical creatures/inhuman, thus have no reason to technically apply to standard societal views of gender. As for the rest, aside from Firecracker and Pudding, there also seems to be a trend of characters hiding their identity not revealing their gender, which also makes sense!

And of course there's always the very real chance that these characters may end up being translated as 100% nonbinary later down the line. However as these characters either use nothing at all (which, while a valid identification method for nonbinary people, probably realistically isn't going to be used in a game) or the "polite" form of they/them (as in the sense of being referred to as such because the characters do not know them and would not like to assume a gender randomly), it's not good to mark them willy-nilly and cause people to potentially believe there is representation where there isn't. Thus I'd rather mark as unspecified instead of saying "hey, this gender is for sure because another language(s) stated as such or it's for sure nonbinary because they used nothing, meaning that is definitely what they intended" as both of these things have harmful connotations. Especially as Dark Choco was presumed to be nonbinary in the past due to lack of pronouns and was then updated and referred to as male, making there be presedence for the possibility of this happening.

Sorry, that was long-winded. The tl;dr is realistically speaking, we have no idea.