Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28067574-20160905085918/@comment-27701762-20160910030358

Yfcnvwifeuv wrote:

Also to Mabian, just put it this way: why would Mettaton set up the damsel in distress scene at ALL if Frisk was female? Because Mettaton likes to play damsels.

Because the script did not have a musical number for a male hero.

Because Frisk's adventure through the Underground better fits the role of "hero" than "damsel."

This reasoning is entirely backwards. The central claim is that Frisk has an actual, canonical gender, meaning that Toby had intentionally applied a gender to Frisk, and that this gender is evidence because of the gender of the character that Mettaton plays in a single scene. Meaning that if Toby had made Mettaton play the hero rather than the damsel, it would be "proof" that Frisk is female. So regardless of how the scene goes, Frisk must be one gender or the other. But if Toby had meant to make Frisk a particular gender, don't you think he could have, you know, just done it? Your argument rests on the premise that Toby is pointlessly hiding the actual gender of the main character, and then electing to use a specific scene to reveal it anyway. So your premise attributes an almost schizophrenic quality to Toby's approach to writing, as opposed to the much simpler explanation that Frisk's gender is simply ambiguous.