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Gildrum’s pronouns are constantly in motion. When the demon wears a body that is seen as female, we read she; when male, he. But since the text explicitly states that the demon’s true form—a disembodied flame—is genderless, we know that this slippage only reflects human perceptions of the bodies the demon occupies, and nothing intrinsic to the demon itself. Even at the story’s conclusion, when Gildrum takes a final form—the male form beloved of his sorceress wife—and commits to performing a single human gender role as man and father, he wears that gender lightly: as a choice, made for the love of others.
✏️ I should make jinn genderless as well. I especially love that, even when presenting as a gender, it’s a choice (which could be made for love of others, or manipulation, etc. depending on intent). 👓 jinn