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This is an attempt at shortening the section in Shiver's article about her gender. I tried to keep most of it since a lot of effort went into the research. I removed the section about Japanese pronouns, and shortened other parts. I also removed the part about when it was confirmed, since the game is out now. The current page doesn't really bother me that much, I just read some of the things on the article's talk page and thought that a few changes could be made. If this doesn't get used that is completely fine. I do not mind any criticism of it.
Gender
When Shiver was first revealed, there was speculation about her gender and the possibility of her being non-binary or ambiguously gendered. In the Splatoon 3 Direct, neither the presentation nor most other promotional material (such as the announcement dialogue for the Splatoon 3 Splatfest World Premiere and references to Deep Cut on the official website) specifically referred to Shiver's gender. This was consistent across most languages, including text in some languages that require it (French, Italian, and Spanish) not refering to Shiver in ways that would require inflecting adjectives or verbs for gender. Other than one Nintendo Portugal message that used "pela", implying Shiver to be female.[1], no other official social media referred to her gender. In contrast, Shiver's bandmates Big Man and Frye were referred to at reveal with terms connoting male and female grammatical gender, respectively. For example, Frye introduces herself in French as "the queen of eels",[2] and in Spanish as the "[female] marine choreographer",[3]
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Nintendo Portugal on Twitter "Os Deep Cut, compostos pela Shiver, a Frye e o Big Man". Italics added for emphasis.
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Splatoon 3 Direct (FR) "C'est moi, la reine des murènes... Angie !"
- ↑ Splatoon 3 Direct (ES) "Empezaré presentandome yo. Soy Angie... ¡coreógrafa marina!"
