Talk:Peppermint Cookie/@comment-46142904-20200701000830/@comment-32094364-20200701013918

Whoa, okay, I'm actually quite surprised someone had any debate about this on the other side of the spectrum. To be honest, emotionally speaking, I don't care for either side of the debate. This is a Korean game by a Korean company and I expect no representation as a baseline as we are not owed anything nor should we expect to receive anything. Is it cool if we do? Absolutely, I appreciate it. Am I surprised if we don't? No.

But I understand where you are coming from. I also think you're making a lot of assumptions about me. Truly I don't care what gets marked as what. I don't personally hold an opinion because this is a wiki for facts, not emotion. But I do think an update video where they explictly use they to refer to a character in text within an official update video should be considered relevant, especially since they used she/her for Captain Ice within the same video. Mic Mac making a slip of tongue on a livestreamed video or even in a forum post...? Not so much, to me. Which is why I always ignored it. In the same video, he also does the same slip of tongue with Avocado and calls her a male, and if we have to accept him calling Cyborg a male accidentally, certainly, we have to accept that, no? People make mistakes in speech. Hard text in a video they had to push out for an important update in their game has to be read over at least a few times...There has to be some thought in that.

I would also testify to the logic in the same video that Sorbet Shark IS MORE LIKELY in the situation you're mentioning; that it was simply easier to use they/them (POSSIBLY, we shall see if that one ever gets released and goes in any specific direction, probably nowhere since it's inhuman...) because they are teasing a new mysterious character. But Peppermint isn't new, Peppermint has been around for years. There is no real reason to do that otherwise. Peppermint isn't mysterious, Peppermint isn't inhuman/a mythical creature (which unfortunately seems to be a huge reason a lot of characters get they/them pronouns and/or no pronouns because they aren't in the human realm of gender), and Peppermint certainly isn't hiding an identity like Roguefort or DJ.

Anyway, this is a situation I am forced to think about much more than I would like. Would I like it to be perfectly clear-cut and defined for each character so I didn't have to play guessing games for each of them until we get something concrete and people don't have to grasp at straws to figure out basic information that should be handed to them properly? Yes. Is that happening? Unfortunately, no. So I have to use the information I am provided. In this situation, I am provided this information, and I am not just going to callously disregard it because it wasn't directly within the confines of the game and was in something that was still very and entirely relevant to the game itself and in fact was repeatedly promoted to be viewed by the players of the game to the point of offering monetary incentive.

If information proving otherwise ever comes out for Peppermint though, fully expect the page to be adjusted once again. As it is I see no reason to do so.