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Vil Schoenheit & Gender identity
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Do not fight in my mentions, please
Vil is a character who, sadly, has much debate and controversy surrounding him when it comes to his gender and ways of expression. Due to the events that occured on his wiki page, I finally have decided to adress and cover this topic. I will talk only of what we have in canon
Vil, as a character, is extremely feminine. In appearance it can be.. quite obvious that this fact is true, and in his speech, where he uses the term "atashi" when referring to himself
Now, Atashi is one of a few first-person Japanese personal pronouns. All info I have gathered is based on my own research, if you are Japanese please feel free to correct me on anything and I will do my best to make proper additions to this thread
In Japanese, one's personal pronouns differ from those in English, given that its a completely different language and culture. In Japan, pronouns usually depend on a speakers age, gender, the context, and who they are adressing, but anyone can really use what they please
Atashi is usually used by women, yes, but as stated before, people are free to use whatever they want to refer to themselves, though they might come off as offensive or impolite given the context.
Now, quickly applying a more western idea, pronouns =/= gender, and this is the case for many people irl, and Vil deffinatly fits this. It can be seen in his interactions that everyone refers to him as male, and he has no complaints, none
Never has Vil ever mentioned being anything but a man either. He is extremely gender non-conforming, yes, but canonly he hasn't stated his wish to be a woman or that he is a woman, like Arashi Enst@rs has
Arashi is a canon trans woman, this is a fact. Multiple times in the stories within Enst@rs as a series has she stated she was a woman in some way, stating she prefers feminine terms like actress and refers to herself as a big sister. Never once has Vil said anything of the sort
Some may argue that the event Ghost Marriage supports that Vil is transfem, and this, once again, is incorrect.
In GM, there is a scene where the boys, Vil included, need to pursuade Eliza to release Idia and marry them instead so that she and her ensamble will leave. For this, VIl puts on a princely act, now using "boku" to refer to himself. People are surprised, but for Vil its an act
If Vil could, he probably would have stuck with using atashi, but he didn't, as he knew Eliza would have extremely high standards, and if he got slapped for not owning a large dog, I'm pretty sure he would get slapped for being feminine
Also somewhat related, and this is honestly just a trend I've noticed, but people seem to like taking femenine male characters and making them trans, meanwhile when it's a masculine woman, they don't bat an eye and just say "ah, tomboy" or something. Why doesn't it go both ways?
If you can accept that a masculine girl is a girl, why can't you accept that a feminine man is a man, without forcing the hc that they are trans onto others? But this is off topic
Anyways, tl;dr Vil has always used feminine pronouns, yes, but pronouns =/= gender, he doesn't correct anyone calling him a man, and he used boku that one time to meet the extremely high standards of some ghosts
If he gets reveiled to be trans down the line, great! But for now, the canon info points to him being a man
