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** Bart once said something like "Bartimaeus sounds male enough, I guess", though I really don't know how "Queezle" sounds female. But considering other [[Insistent Terminology]] I think they would all object to being called "it" or something, so rather than make up a weird new pronoun, Stroud just flipped a coin. |
** Bart once said something like "Bartimaeus sounds male enough, I guess", though I really don't know how "Queezle" sounds female. But considering other [[Insistent Terminology]] I think they would all object to being called "it" or something, so rather than make up a weird new pronoun, Stroud just flipped a coin. |
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*** The vast majority of Bartimaeus' forms are male, and he says in the first book that he _can_ take on female forms. Queezle's primary form is female. Of the other demons we see, all have one or more preferred form, and so I always assumed that pronouns referred to apparent sex, rather than actual sex. |
*** The vast majority of Bartimaeus' forms are male, and he says in the first book that he _can_ take on female forms. Queezle's primary form is female. Of the other demons we see, all have one or more preferred form, and so I always assumed that pronouns referred to apparent sex, rather than actual sex. |
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*** Perhaps spirits have personalities which, in human terms, tend towards either masculine or feminine, and are thus referred to as a gender. Also, the troper above said that the preferred form usually has a gender; perhaps that's a result ([[The Mind Is a Plaything of |
*** Perhaps spirits have personalities which, in human terms, tend towards either masculine or feminine, and are thus referred to as a gender. Also, the troper above said that the preferred form usually has a gender; perhaps that's a result ([[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body|or a cause]]). |
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** Word of God says that spirits gravitate toward whichever gender best suits their personality. So while they are sexless, they do have gender to some extent. |
** Word of God says that spirits gravitate toward whichever gender best suits their personality. So while they are sexless, they do have gender to some extent. |
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