I have one...but it is kind of risky.
Grab V's lower regions
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I have one...but it is kind of risky.
Grab V's lower regions
IMO V probably actually has a gender, but at the end we will find out. That will be how he gets ULTIMATE ARCANE POWER!, by saying, Actually, I am male/female.
At first I was going to comment on how long it's been since I've seen a V's gender thread, but instead I'm going to say "Holy thread necromancy batman!"
Sadly most of those tie in to what each character believes the gender of :vaarsuvius: to be. Just because Haley, Sabine and any other character believe V to be female doesn't make it so. Read the FAQ
And the whole problem with Belkar "lusting" after V may not be an issue of gender identity, but rather of the fact that V is marriedand (according to panel 10)seems to be rather faithful to his/her mate.
will he have time to scream out the answer before he dies? Just make sure he doesn't do it while V is playing a sport like lacrosse or wrestling!
Clearly the only way to learn the truth is for Belkar to put points into Knowledge: Reptiles and boost that WIS score, so he can remember what the lizard looked like down under.
I went through to 270, looking at V closer and this is what I came up with.
Male
V-Man in Strip #09
V is gay according to B's comment in Strip 28
Linear Guild Members are greatest opposites of character. Thog is dumb, Nale is smart. Sabine is a slut, Hilgya is gender opposite (Worships Loki so is still Nordic.. #52), Yikyik is a kobold. By the same logic V who talks so long as to put the enemies to sleep and known for ranting, has Zz'drti be silent.
#124 does Mr Burns line.
#173 asserts he is a wizard. Wizard is predominately male. He also corrects Sorcerer/Sorceress technicality prior.
V is checked by B in #177, guessing from the fact he saw something means it was probably a 'v' shaped set of dots. Meaning male. Judging from his comment he saw something that was neither obviously male or female to him, and because nothing would be of no merit, V is male.
#186 does not fret about barely covered nudity in front of the boys.
#238 Misses Haley's point big time in a boy's confused manner...
Female
Rooms with Haley in #123. Breast joke on V, but taken out of perverted context it means nothing.
Notes
V's boot comment does not infer a gender, but this 'fashion sense' does seem to match up with V being gay in B's eyes.
V avoids bathroom in #87
#223 the term mate is ambigious... Not exactly fits either due to race.
#123 and #225 do not count for either gender as even Miko puts the V with the women. Maybe someone never got around to reading up on D&D sexuality, but in terms of protection and sleeping conditions V is a balancer even ambigiously.
So based on what we consider in terms of the Inn, if V was a girl then it would be 4 boys and 2 girls to #123. 4 boys and 3 girls in #225. Yet the ambiguous nature leans more towards V being a boy. 5 boys and 1 girl would be a bit lopsided and its probably not in anyone's best interest to have a woman sleep alone in a potentially dangerous area, V is sexually ambigious and trusted most by Haley and is a power house of a mage who doesn't actually need to sleep. Something deeper must exist between humans and elves since Miko also chose V to room with the girls at first.
At this point... it just seems overwhelming for V being a boy, ambigious yes, but so much lines up for it. Mentally V is superior and has a great capacity for empathy, but this does not mean anything in terms of gender.
:nale:: "Hey! A clearly-established gender identity! He is an evil opposite! Now get away from my woman, Ear Boy." (#254 Half the Elf, Double the Fun)
There are one or two holes in V's theory. Shojo and Elan, for example.
Manga is correct about the gender identity of Pompay.
The second one is just as scary if B is into V, especially if they are both boys. It is one of those comments that go either way. V's theory about Hate and Lust seems to vary between Kill and Indifferent. He is not regularly trying to get with Haley and simply co-exists. A drunken B is probably as close as you can get to actual 'lust' from the likes of him. I'm going to say V underestimates his mind way too far, stemming from the trauma.
Going by their earlier exploits you can forget associating the theory to gender, though either way the thought is sickening to all but the most cruel and chaotic beings in the world, fanfic writers.:biggrin:
Are you implying that the eigenstates of gender for elves are orthogonal to those for humans? Or that this is just a special case for androgynous couples? :smallbiggrin: I can't recall--have any elves in OotS been identified in a gender-specific manner? :smallconfused: I would guess "yes", but I don't remember (and 600+ strips are a lot to look back through)!
Personally, I imagine that V and V's spouse (VS) share an entangled gender state:
1/sqrt(2) (|V=male>|VS=female> - |V=female>|VS=male>)
...but I doubt that Rich will ever give us a measurement that would collapse their wavefunction!
EDIT: Added benefit of this state--both V and VS remain androgynous until it's obvious who is what, at which point they are of opposite genders regardless of who's gender was determined!
Set up an antimagic field then grab V's lower regions. That or have someone immune to disintegrate or any other magic do it.
As Rich said in the FAQ, that is only Roy's perception, not necessarily the truth.
If Belkar thinks V is gay, then that's only his perception. In addition, it's not really clear if he's implying V is gay there, or if he's saying "I always suspected...[that V was female]". Some people read it that way, so it's possible. Either way, it's not conclusive in the slightest.Quote:
V is gay according to B's comment in Strip 28
I don't see how this is evidence for V being male?Quote:
Linear Guild Members are greatest opposites of character. Thog is dumb, Nale is smart. Sabine is a slut, Hilgya is gender opposite (Worships Loki so is still Nordic.. #52), Yikyik is a kobold. By the same logic V who talks so long as to put the enemies to sleep and known for ranting, has Zz'drti be silent.
Which doesn't prove anything...Quote:
#124 does Mr Burns line.
Maybe, but still inconclusive.Quote:
#173 asserts he is a wizard. Wizard is predominately male. He also corrects Sorcerer/Sorceress technicality prior.
Who says he saw something? It's not clear what he saw, only that he doesn't know if it means male or female.Quote:
V is checked by B in #177, guessing from the fact he saw something means it was probably a 'v' shaped set of dots. Meaning male. Judging from his comment he saw something that was neither obviously male or female to him, and because nothing would be of no merit, V is male.
V was behind the dragon, they couldn't see V's body. There was no need to fret.Quote:
#186 does not fret about barely covered nudity in front of the boys.
Wrong comic, V isn't in 238. Which one did you mean?Quote:
#238 Misses Haley's point big time in a boy's confused manner...
Agreed.Quote:
Rooms with Haley in #123. Breast joke on V, but taken out of perverted context it means nothing.
Well some elves, like Lirian, have an obvious gender, whereas others (most noticeably ones in the prequel books), look more androgynous.
Roy's perception...
If V goes to such great lengths to correct a speech technicality, you would think something about gender would be equally deserving, and also the fact that colloquial speech is something that V has issues with. It just seems odd to me that hitting two sensitive nerves would be ticked if the male comment wasn't accurate.
As for Belk, I guess you could say it works for both genders, but the look is rather unique. Shocked by Haley, disgusted by V. How far of a stretch is it?
Linear Guild was a nod to whatever bizarro doppelganger source you want to choose from. You keep the same main aspects and invert the other one.
Bard -> Enchanter. Dumb Good -> Smart Evil.
Elf -> Dark Elf. Rants -> soft spoken
This is why Zz's replacement is funny, because a clear gender is another opposite of V. Call it a stretch again, but I saw a connection.
And I'll try to clarify for #177. The fact of the matter with lizards and Belk's observation is that he doesn't know what he saw. Which is rather easy to infer, since boys have a defining trait girls don't. In lieu of this (and I am serious about lizard anatomy here), the lack of a clear answer for the usual methods leads to a check of spots or no spots. Logically he saw something to make his observation about not knowing what he saw, and it could be inferred he saw the 'V' shaped (coincidence?) dots that would be there if V was in fact male, otherwise a pure nothing would be female.
#177 closes it for me that V is male. With just a few minutes of searching I came across either an amazing coincidence that corresponds to name and gender by seeing something and not nothing, and that something noted by Belk was perhaps the single strongest evidence to go on.
The issue with the bedrooms as described previously just seems to assert it with this train of thought that lines up way to eerie with V being homosexual and male. Going on the perhaps crude fashion jokes, but confusion about Haley's comment on Roy's transgendered escapade. The attention to a clearly male moniker and about a twenty other circumstantial pieces not mentioned in this list that continue to point in the male direction.
Whatever you want to call V, I'm sticking with my disturbing, yet calming conclusion based on four years of exploits with no definitive answer.
Does Giant calling V "him" count as evidence?
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...493#post211493Quote:
V is speaking Lizardese, but he can still say "Feather Fall". He does not know the Silent Spell feat.
And so far, all teleportation spells have been suspiciously absent from the elf's repetoire. The rest, just aren't in his spellbook yet.
I like how this was done, but you don't have to randomly generate your hight and weight. You can usually choose them if you want.
Good one, found another.
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...&postcount=493
This was the interpretation of the battle against Miko.
Though I hate to use something like this as back up evidence. :/
not necessarily. http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...&postcount=209
Yeah... like anyone would believe it :smallwink::smallwink:
Also, I think Vaarsuvius has the same hard time knowing a human's gender as we do with h** gender (proof is when Roy uses that belt).
Agreed.
I think trying to pick over minutiae to assign a gender to Vaarsuvius is pretty pointless, when it's much simpler to just conclude that zie just doesn't fit into the binary gender model. It's not really a very interesting debate anyway.
A much more interesting question for me is whether Vaarsuvius is consciously choosing to subvert the gender binary (and zir various comments on gender and zir unawareness thereof are just part of the means of subversion), or whether zie is truly unaware of gender as humans perceive it (and therefore zir comments stem from true ignorance).
I vote ignorance. I can't imagine Vaarsuvius as someone who goes out of h** way to subvert some idea of some (mostly magicless) humans.
V has never had a good gender grasp. Those two at the Inn ( one for haley and one for Roy) were proof of that.
I agree. Since gender seems to be largely irrelevant in High Elf culture 99% of the time, it's likely V just doesn't care about that particular aspect of his/her identity and doesn't bother correcting others when they get it wrong.
As for the inn incident, something just occurred to me. I'm not sure if this is canon DnD lore but a Baldur's Gate II mod I once played mentioned that elves focus insanely much on the inside and the personality and don't really pay attention to what's outside all that much. It sounds like elves would be slow to notice changes in physical appearance. Thus, V was able to spot the peculiar piece of garb - the cleaning mop - when prompted, but didn't notice the anatomical changes.
If this has already been said, then I apologize. If not, Ha! Beat you to it.
Doesn't anyone think that V could be lying about his/her weight? After all, V also lied about his/her age. Which actually leads me to believe that V is vain and thus more stereotypically female. And Yes, Girls out there, I Know that some guys do it too. Please refer to me saying that this is a stereotypical activity for girls.
If Vaarsuvius were that vain, chances are he wouldn't let himself come to look the way he does now.
In any case, if we assume that V lied about his age, that alone isn't proof that he must have lied about his weight as well, and therefore is vain, and therefore is female. It's likely V had very concrete reasons for pretending to be younger than he is.
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