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[MangaDex]

 

[Tenri]

When your entire lower half is tubes I think the designation is understandable.

 

[Nyuula]

I always thought Mute was male, so it feels weird using she/her pronouns for her. I do like the idea of using they for Mishou, though. It's always nice seeing pronouns that aren't strictly he or she.

 

[friendly]

Thank you for the notes about the pronouns! I think that's a very reasonable way to handle it.

 

[Nunally]

Yup, I think its because of the tubes, because she is a normal human right? Btw I am more interested about the necrosis, is it a disease that lead to destruction of humans?

 

[Spotspot01]

@Nunally - necrosis is the death of cells, tissues, and organs. It can form a variety of reasons. I don't know if the nanomachines people in this world can have cell death if their cells are made of machines - I highly doubt it works in the same way. Still not sure

Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=necrosis&oq=necrosis&aqs=chrome..69i57j0j0i433j0i131i433j0i433j0l3.1620j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

As far as the person on the bed goes (not good with names), judging from the sheer number of tubes - she probably doesn't have many organs left working as it appears both her respiratory and digestive systems are not properly working (indicated by the breathing machine and you kinda need be conscious to eat - so often times feeding tubes will be used - but she got a bit more than usual so my guess is the entire system is shut down).

Hope this helps and sorry it is a lot of info.

P.S. I think it is implied that she is a human (not a nanomachine one), but I am not 100% sure.

 

[Grave13]

Pain

 

[guardian1102]

Gender identity is just dumb. Just call them by their name and be done with it.

 

[poweranger11]

I am not ready for them to say goodbye.

 

[Soulwarfare]

Sex: Neutral

 

[Werebearguy]

Too much "they/them" talk just looks poor, grammatically speaking. I mean sure, it makes sense in some context with the story, especially because we only got tiny glimpses of a person with a ponytail (Men can sport those too, don't deny it!), but it still just reads poorly. I mean no disrespect or shade, but that just sounds awful from an English standpoint. I assume the times "Master" were used only occurred when the translation had it spoken, but this is where a few liberties would be 100% viable. Hell, I remember having points taken off of my book reports because I used "they/them" too often when describing a singular person. That was an incredibly dumb reason to drop my A to a B, but still; poor grammar is poor grammar. Again, I mean no disrespect to the translator(s?). I'm thankful for the chapters since more Suoh is a blessing, but the grammar stuck out quite a bit despite being intentional.

Also, while I'm fairly inexperienced with all the gender stuff going on suddenly in the world, I do wanna throw this two cents out there; if Mute was referred to as female (and I totally imagined a nice motherly voice every time), then that was referring to the person and not the dog. Master may have been so flat that there might've been some concave action going on (especially with necrosis that bad, and dear god I hope not because that'd probably be awful), but if the person's been called one thing, stick to it.

Also also; Master is an octopus. Suoh's master is a biomechanical cephalopod now!

 

[eviljackspicer]

*Sees image of person that is practically dead*

Me: OMG how are they still alive??

Everyone else: wUt'S uR pRoNouNS?

 

[dric]

those pronouns were just confusing, "they" grammatically is used to talk about two or more individuals. use "master" instead.

https://www.onestopenglish.com/ask-the-experts/grammar-them-and-they/146352.article#:~:text=They%20and%20them%20are%20always,them%20is%20an%20object%20pronoun.

 

[Beregorn]

I guess that since the androids call her "mother", and they used a female pronoun for the dog link, she is still identified as a feminine figure, despite her sex being listed as "neutral" (whatever that means in this dystopian future: for all we now it may just means she is sterile)

 

[Lucrecia]

I don't know if it's there in English as well, but in Latin - and I understand it was present as a form of pronoun in ancient China as well, and probably in other cultures as well - there is the "pluralis maiestatis", which uses the plural pronoun to indicate the single subject as the highest form of respect.
Now fallen into disuse, it was used by Kings, Emperors and Popes to refer to themselves, and obviously to address them in a formal manner

That's why the use of the pronoun "they" to refer to the mother and creator of Suoh and Suden I don't see as wrong at all, far from it.

 

[Fireboy]

This entire time I imagined Mute as having a male voice. And Mishou based on the writing and the artwork could easily be either or so the neutral gender fits pretty nicely and using "they" works.

How many chapters are left? I wonder if we'll see anymore of Suoh's siblings or maybe she'll continue traveling after Mishou's death to meet her siblings in a vague epilogue.

 

[Orcalymph]

Wait so now suoh have met the master, the master's conciousness doesnt return to mute?

 

[BQzjBUplWM92RKmG0bmA]

I found the whole sex thing strange since it's not referring to gender identity but rather chromosomal, but it's a minor detail unimportant to the story.