Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28067574-20160905085918/@comment-24821641-20160905161406

It's fine for you to see Frisk as male, but..."Why would Mettaton choose to be a female in the love story if Frisk was already a girl?"

...He's just wearing a dress. And I think he's "acting" as himself, not a made-up character, so.

"Anyway, some could argue that Mettaton's character has to be female as he's supposed to be the damsel in distress."

But...he's NOT the "damsel in distress"? It's Frisk who gets locked in the dungeon.

"Summed up, Frisk is a boy."

Summed up, Frisk is ambiguous, or likely even non-binary considering they go through Papyrus's door ("NO GIRLS ALLOWED! NO BOYS ALLOWED! PAPYRUS ALLOWED!"). Though he could of course just have allowed them in that case since it's a date/hang-out.

You can't "prove" anything regarding this. You can think of them as male and refer to them as male, but the only canon is that they use they/them, whether by choice or because monsters can't tell.

oh and because only after this I've seen your other reply... "Firstly, Frisk has to have SOME gender. There are no beings that are neither."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer                                                                                https://sites.psu.edu/evolutionofhumansexuality/2014/02/19/third-genders-new-concept-or-old/    You can look up more, there's actually loads of cultures that have/had a concept of neither!

"Secondly, it just seems weird that both Frisk and Mettaton act as the opposite gender in the play." Mettaton is just wearing a dress. Frisk either isn't acting at all or is also acting as themselves/the human.

"It's even shown later in the Alphys date, if you choose to act as her and Alphys act as Undyne. She looks at you funny because you're making it more complicated than it needs to be." ...I don't see what this has to do with it? Alphys thinks it's strange because she has to act as someone else rather than herself. Frisk would play a girl either way.