# AMA (Ask Me Anything) 6:00-9:00pm MT **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** ama\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://alcove.azaleaellis.com/t/ama-ask-me-anything-600pm-mt/142 "2024-01-05T00:09:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 53
**Author:** ![AzaleaEllis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/alcove.azaleaellis.com/azaleaellis/32/1_2.png) [@AzaleaEllis](https://alcove.azaleaellis.com/u/AzaleaEllis)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://alcove.azaleaellis.com/t/ama-ask-me-anything-600pm-mt/142/53 "2024-01-05T03:55:53Z")
> [@Keid](#): > > How did you come to your decision to write Siobhan’s/Sebastien’s gender as you did, referring to her as a person using both names, according to who she’s presenting as at the time, but consistently referring to her with she/her pronouns and as a girl even though nobody else sees her that way as Sebastien? > > It’s a somewhat unusual way to deal with characters that magically swap gender presentation, especially as Sebastien grows into being part of her identity instead of just a mask she wears, possibly indicating some fluidity in her own gender. I’m not exactly sure how to word this, but I’ll do my best. Siobhan/Sebastien is a person independent of their physical form. For an example: If your brain were transplanted into a robot body, are you now an “it?” If your robot body has breasts, are you a “she?” A penis? Siobhan/Sebastien uses female nouns because she thinks of herself as a woman. Even when she accepts Sebastien as a name, it’s just a name. She’s still herself. Even if Sebastien becomes an identity, it’s still her identity, formed from her mind inside that body. She might be a little gender-fluid, but she’s never thought of herself as a man, and so she isn’t. --- _[View the full topic](https://alcove.azaleaellis.com/t/ama-ask-me-anything-600pm-mt/142)._