Talk:Frisk/@comment-39162-20160312153002/@comment-27287670-20160313090024

Toby hasn't implied Frisk's gender depends on what you feel. He hasn't implied anything to the contrary for that matter. The only things that are known are:

a) Frisk is their own person, a subversion of the "player protagonist" in RPGs. You don't know Frisk exists until the moment they're specifically r evealed as NOT being the character whose name you input- which was your only actual input on anyone's identity in this game- but someone else entirely.  The fact you don't even get to name them implies that you shouldn't be projecting yourself on them. Flowey essentially confirms this when he tells you as the player to "let Frisk live their life". That is to say, their life is seperate from yours. Frisk is as much of a malleable character as Sans, Papyrus, Toriel, etc. Some players have a weird tendecy to call Undyne or Alphys a guy, but we all know that isn't true.

b) Frisk is only ever referred to with "they/them" pronouns. This is either because no one knows Frisk's gender or because they are nonbinary/gender neutral. I'm personally certain of the latter, mostly because Toby isn't the type of person to pointlessly say "hey I introduced an androgynous static character whose gender is never defined, SIKE they're actually a boy/girl but no one knew it". However, I acknowledge that canon doesn't explicitly confirm this.

Therefore, the player should not be able to project a solid gender on Frisk without acknowledging the risk that they could be completely wrong.