kiranerysismyhero:

Odo, if I wrote Deep Space Nine

Odo switches around his gender presentation whenever he feels like it, and pretty much everyone is nonplussed. He’s comfortable with pretty much any pronouns besides “it” so there’s a lot of different people around the station who use different things. Some always use he/she/ze/they etc, some switch around depending on how Odo’s presenting that day. Sisko usually uses the binary pronoun that most closely fits that day’s presentation when introducing Odo to temporary visitors to avoid getting off track with explanations, but he often uses “they” among station staff. For one species “odo” actually sounds very similar to a pronoun in their language so they basically view him as a French speaker would view a woman named Elle, and to everyone else it just sounds like they never use pronouns for him. Kira is most used to using “him” because that’s what was used exclusively during the occupation (Odo didn’t feel comfortable being as free with his form under the Cardassians) but sometimes she’ll use a Bajoran pronoun that doesn’t specify gender but rather respectfulness [those actually do exist in some human languages!!]. Starfleet’s files officially list him as genderfluid because the first time an officer asked his gender he said “…I am a fluid.”

Bonus: he likes to take on a hyper-feminine form when arresting Quark, to annoy the little misogynist

@maryellencarter

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#I feel like you would appreciate this #Star Trek #DS9 #Odo #gender #(I personally tend to headcanon him as having gotten attached to his maleness in much the same way) #(he gets attached to his patrol schedule and furniture placement) #(but I like this version too)