Talk:Napstablook/@comment-98.245.241.250-20151106050344/@comment-65.184.182.9-20151119201339

Holy crap this is a long thread of comments, pfft.

You guys do know that the whole idea of Napstablook is generally the fact, like all the other ghosts of the game, is that they're unknown, right? You can't kill them, you have no idea what they're really doing down there or if they're a monster or what exactly, and Blooky is the only one with an actual name. Mettaton was a name given to, well, Mettaton with his new robot body.

The use of the pronouns "They" or "Them" can refer to agender people, nonbinary people, or simply when you don't know someone's gender. One of these particular options, in my personal opinion, fits the above paragraph better than the others. Basically what I'm getting at is that their gender could simply be unknown, hence the they/them, which could also explain why Mettaton was given the same pronouns before he got his seemingly male body, and therefor male pronouns as used by various NPCs.

Either way, there's no solid decision on what gender Napstablook or the other ghosts are, so unless Toby specifically were to answer this question, there's really no way of correctly calling them by certain pronouns. Using "they" or "them" isn't respectful or disrespectful, it just says that you don't know their gender, and it sure doesn't seem like Napstablook cares what you call them. In fact, trying to force people to call him nonbinary or agender is more of an offensive schtick than someone calling him "he", "she", or "they". I honestly think it doesn't matter what you call our ghostly friend, as they're more of that character whos gender is up for the player's interpretation. You shouldn't scream at someone just because they call Napsta "he" or "she"; they simply don't know and are making an assumption based on what they could gather from the dialogue and such, using common comparisons (or even stereotypes if you must) simply because that's the only information available.

Let people call them but whatever pronouns they want. It may sound rude, but before you try to prove them "wrong" keep in mind that you are literally doing the same thing that they are by trying to prove their gender to be something no one actually knows for sure. Everyone is simply assuming. And when we're dealing with a video game character who we can't outright ask what gender they are, then assuming isn't too bad of a thing. No need to get angry over it.

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