V's Gender Debate IV [Official]

[Prowl]

There's no reason V's initial weight could not have been in the range for a male of his height, and for him to later (but before the scene in the prequel) have lost weight due to overstudy and lack of exercise.

[Laurentio II]

While I usually reject any "Vaarsuvius gender" thread, and I myself decided him male, I congratulate with Stu42 for the first "by the book" attempt. And for the disclaimer before explaining his theory.
So, I have to chance my opinion from "Vaarsuvius is a male" to "Vaarsuvius is an anorexic male".

[Fawkes]

"misogynistic murderous minuscule mental"

Misogynistic murderous minuscule mental madman.

[Belkar Rocks]

Personally, I think there is only one way of determining V's gender. This is just my personal theory and is not intended in anyway to minimize the theories of others.

How To Determine V's Gender

1. Decide on a gender.
2. Tell everyone else you're right and they're idiots.
3. PROFIT!

[TerrickTerran]

Wait...before profit shouldn't there be something about a wooden Apalca and stuffing it with potato sald?

[drengnikrafe]

Personally, I think there is only one way of determining V's gender. This is just my personal theory and is not intended in anyway to minimize the theories of others.

How To Determine V's Gender

1. Decide on a gender.
2. Tell everyone else you're right and they're idiots.
3. PROFIT!

I think you forgot the part where you agree with people who... well... agree with you. If you say that Vaarsuvius is a monkey/robot/ninja/dinosaur/deity, and someone else says that too, you don't call them an idiot, you say they're right.

[Halvormerlinaky]

I'd just look under the robe. But maybe that's me.

[Kaytara]

I'd just look under the robe. But maybe that's me.

I'd be scared. What if you look under the robe and find... nothing? Just a vast black hole of gender-neutral spacial matter....

[Laurentio II]

I'd be scared. What if you look under the robe and find... nothing? Just a vast black hole of gender-neutral spacial matter....

Could be...

[Yendor]

You'd find a piece of paper reading, "I prepared Explosive Runes this morning."

[AceOfFools]

The application!

Hehe, I now know that his social security number is 15 and his age is 103 (younger than the legal starting age for an elf wizard).

Now all I need is wait until Haley throws him a birthday party to get the exact birthdate, and proof of address.

[Lissou]

I don't want to go through all the calculations and stuff, but...

V gave measurements in metric. The metric rules for DnD (for countries that use the metric system) are:

Size: 1m35+5d6 (for both)
Weight: male base weight = 42, female base weight = 40
weight modificator = 1d6/5 kg

So, feel free to calculate if, using the metric rules, V can be male, female, neither or both.

[chiasaur11]

The application!

Hehe, I now know that his social security number is 15 and his age is 103 (younger than the legal starting age for an elf wizard).

Now all I need is wait until Haley throws him a birthday party to get the exact birthdate, and proof of address.

Child prodigy.

That explains the young age.

[Linkavitch]

Quote by RyQ_TMC: Still, since V's gender will certainly never be revealed, and his/her mate will surely turn out to be equally androgynous. . .

Wait, are you saying V is androgynously gay? That's disturbing.

[Random NPC]

Personally, I think there is only one way of determining V's gender. This is just my personal theory and is not intended in anyway to minimize the theories of others.

How To Determine V's Gender

1. Decide on a gender.
2. Tell everyone else you're right and they're idiots.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!

Fixed the list for you.

And I like this theory

[Laurentio II]

Wait, are you saying V is androgynously gay? That's disturbing.

Yes. He/vaarsuvius is gay while she/Vaarsuvius is lesbian. Incidentally, even his partner is gay, while her is straight, and actually is cheating Vaarsuvius. Bad story.

[ericgrau]

I'd be scared. What if you look under the robe and find... nothing? Just a vast black hole of gender-neutral spacial matter....

So I was swimming in world of warcraft. My gnome was wearing a Robe. I swam forward, leaving the underside of the robe in glaring, unavoidable view. I saw... water.

I suspect something similar would happen with V. V is climbing up a ladder, you look up, and you just see ladder. Not even the base of V's head (the rest of which is clearly visible), but the ladder. Don't try to explain it.

[Chronos]

Wait, are you saying V is androgynously gay? That's disturbing.

No, Vaarsuvius is e^(i*phi) (1/sqrt(2) |male> + 1/sqrt(2) |female>), while es mate is e^(i*phi) (1/sqrt(2) |male> - 1/sqrt(2) |female>).

So you see, while they're both perfectly androgynous, they're also of exactly opposite gender. And my apologies to anyone who actually understood what I just said.

[David94]

Actually, since 4th Edition, height and weight have changed. Elves are now 5'7" to 6'0" and weigh 100 to 130 pounds. V is 4'11" and weighs 86 pounds. So clearly V is younger than (s)he should be, so therefore gender can't be estimated from average height and weight. But on the other hand, GitP is still on 3.5, technically. So I don't know.

[Trizap]

I think I have a theory that no one has considered yet:

V is both female and male, and reproduces acesexually, so V made a clone of V,
using acesexual reprdouction, and married his/her clone

its why V is so androgynous!

but thats only a secondary theory, my real opinion is that V is female to
help balance the male to female ratio in the party

wait, has anyone realized that since V is androgynous, that V is immune to all gender specific tropes?

[Vizen]

If V was neither gender...What would happen if he decided to put that belt on? Would she become both genders?

I don't think I would want to look up that robe when V is in its current state. *shudders*

[drengnikrafe]

If V was neither gender...What would happen if he decided to put that belt on? Would she become both genders?

I don't think I would want to look up that robe when V is in its current state. *shudders*

That is an interesting theory. I think that V is very subtley (sp?) one gender or the other, so if V put on "that" belt, (s)he would become ever so subtley (sp?) the other gender. In other words, we wouldn't notice what happened.

[silvadel]

I don't think we will know till the end of the comic -- if Rich is kind... Might not even know then if not.

[Eldrys]

V is obviously a girl!
Haley insists on sleping in the same room as her!

did I spell "insists" right.

[Kroy]

V is obviously a girl!
Haley insists on sleping in the same room as her!

did I spell "insists" right.

Yes you did

[HealthKit]

What if filled out incorrect information (whether it was on purpose or by accident) about his/her height and/or weight when that form was filled out?
That throws this theory out the window.

[Scion_of_Darkness]

Well I love the mathematical approach to determining V's gender. However I feel V is female based on a different methodology.

1. In strip 123 Haley decides to room with V as opposed to any other party member. If the party was all male there would be no reason to chose V. In fact Haley would more likely have chosen Elan to satisfy her hidden crush.
2. You could also make the case that since Pompay is male V would be female. Not only would Pompay have a gender identity, but he would also be the opposite gender. I will admit that this is argument is weak.
3. In strip 335 when V explains her hypotheis involving Belkar's brain, all the given examples under the "lust" catagory are female. If V was male there little worry about Belkar lusting after her.
4. In strip 385 a disguised Sabine goes to a Azure City bar and starts asking V "Why are all men such pigs??" I don't know for certain but I can't imagine a women going up to a man and asking a question like that. That seems more like a women to women question. Admittedly I have little to no experience with bars, drunks, or vexed women.

[Scion_of_Darkness]

Another thing that would help this argument is knowledge of Volcano naming methods. I know hurricanes switch between male and female names. Is there any rule for volcanoes? Finding the gender identity of the name Varsuvious would help immensely.

[Hydro Globus]

Volcanoes aren't named for people.

[whitelaughter]

V is obviously a girl!
Haley insists on sleping in the same room as her!

did I spell "insists" right.

SO Elan must also be a girl?

"insists" yes, "sleeping" no. [shrugs] Still pretty good.