Talk:Shiver

Do we have a source for Shiver's gender? Let's not make twitter claims from randoms the factual basis for the character Pinkolol16 (talk) 05:56, 11 August 2022 (UTC)


 * The person who’s changing it is a VANDAL and must be blocked. I have already left a message on Shahar’s talk page and on the Inkipedia discord. OrderSquid38 (talk) 05:59, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Gender
All, please stop accusing good-faith editors as vandals. Admins are not going to block editors who are acting in good-faith.

We should cite our sources, yes the "obvious" included. One viewpoint is not the only viewpoint, for example it is not obvious that Shiver is female as their white top is a bandage which would indicate transmasc. In future, please start a discussion on Discord or on the talkpage.

We may want to move to using "Pronouns" instead of "Gender" on character infoboxes.

Regardless, I have yet to see any pronouns for Shiver in any material, and until we have a good citation, I do not want Inkipedia to confirm a gender (and be wrong) 11:03, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I’m fairly certain that Shiver is female. Most fans have called her "she" and "her", and her Spanish name is "Megan". Nintendo hasn’t explicitly confirmed this yet, but I do believe she’s female. WolfTamer S2 Icon Callie 3.png 11:52, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Understood, however the French localization uses "Pasquale" which is masculine, rather than "Pasquala" which would indicate feminine. So it appears that we cannot infer from the localizations either. Let's wait until we have confirmation from a Nintendo source. 12:07, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I think it would be alright to get rid of the 'gender' section in the infoboxes, but I don't think it should be replaced with a section for pronouns because they can already be seen from their use in the article.  12:14, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
 * If other users would like a pronoun section to be added I am completely fine with it, I just think it is a little bit redundant since the pronouns are already there 14:11, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Theory on gender
I think that Shiver is female because of her eyebrows. It is (probably) well-known that female and male octolings have different eyes, with the female ones having a point at the bottom outer corner. If you look at any example of octolings, you can also see that the female ones universally (as far as I've seen) have shorter eyebrows. This has led me to conjecture that the smaller eyebrows indicate female, (it also applies to inklings), and therefore Shiver is female. Just a theory though. Wilh3lm (talk) 00:36, 12 August 2022 (UTC)


 * As much as I believe Shiver is female, we do not have any evidence from Nintendo that she is. OrderSquid38 (talk) 00:37, 12 August 2022 (UTC)