Talk:Ion Cookie Robot/@comment-216.213.215.103-20190501123826/@comment-32094364-20190501132949

...Ok, I'll bite the bait, mostly because I'm bored and just woke up. Nonbinary is used to categorize whenever a Cookie is referred to with it or they pronouns. (Devil, Space Doughnut, Angel, etc) Unspecified is used to categorize when Cookies don't have pronouns mentioned so that later down the line if devsis decides to mention a gender it isn't shocking and upsetting to people, because devsis likes doing that years later much to the dismay of the audience. (See: fiasco with Dark Choco) Guess which of these two things Ion is.

Also, Ion has enough sentience to talk and learn due to its programming, and the devs very well could've referred to it with masculine or feminine pronouns if they really wanted to. Just because Ion may not have identifying genitalia does not mean Ion does not have some sort of gender identity, whether created by itself or the people around it.

For example, in Dangan Ronpa, Kiibo is also considered to technically defaultedly have no gender because Kiibo is also a robot. However, he is referred to with male pronouns in the entire game and generally refers to himself in a masculine way, so his wiki identifies him as "none, but identifying male." Aloe refers to Ion as it, so Ion is referred to generally as it. I imagine there wouldn't be any complaints if it had been the same for Ion and it was referred to as male or something. So no, I don't really see the problem with marking Ion as nonbinary, since if I were to not I'd technically have to change Space Doughnut and Squid Ink as well since they both probably have inhuman concepts of gender and thus can't be categorized.

...You might see why this method is messy and unpreferable. Basically what I'm trying to say is it's not that deep, mate.