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I finished my piece for pride! And here it is! Renamon from Digimon Survive and Digimon Tamers, and their partners, Miyuki Minase and Rika Nonaka/Ruki Makino (Who I will be henceforth be referring to as Rika because I have terminal Watched The Dubs As A Kid brain).

I come to present to you canon information!

This is in fact, not a headcanon piece!

This is quite explicit canon!

Or at least, one of these is explicit canon and the other is implicitly canon.

Yes, you see, despite Renamon being the patron saint of weird horny furries everywhere, Renamon actually, very explicitly, is not a girl! And this is explicit, textual canon! That everyone has just… deliberately ignored for some reason?

We’re going to focus on the Renamon from Digimon Tamers first, as that’s the Renamon most people know and the one that’s more explicit.

The scene that explicitly confirms it is here!

And… that’s pretty clear, isn’t it? Pretty damn explicit!

If you need even more, Chiaki J. Konaka, on his own website , discussed this!

“At first, I had a sort of androgynous image in mind for Renamon. Officially, digimon do not have gender; however, many Digimon such as Agumon and Gabumon acted like young boys, and there are quite a few obviously female digimon as well. If anything, gender seems fairly easy to identify in digimon.

Eventually, Renamon would become Sakuyamon, a very feminine digimon. I thought that I was start Renamon out as a "genderless" digimon, and have that be a large part of its personality.”

You could argue that means that Renamon is transgender, IE; Agender to female trans, but the fact is that Sakuyamon is a biomerge evolution, IE; Rika and Renamon combined together, and thus, it can be assumed that Sakuyamon is female because Rika is female, and not because that’s the natural progression of their gender.

As well, Renamon uses the gender neutral pronoun “Watashi”, while this is used more often by women in casual contexts, it is also fairly explicitly not exclusive to women and can be understood as a deliberate choice given the other context given.

Now, I’m gonna get a bit mean here, but it’s honestly annoying how in any upload of that scene you can find on YouTube, you’ll find dozens of people huffing copium trying to construct a justification for why, despite explicit confirmation in the text, that Renamon can still be a girl.

What kind of weapons grade copium do you have to be mainlining to look at a scene where Renamon is asked if they’re a girl and they respond that “By nature, Digimon don’t have genders” and think the takeaway the creators wanted you to have was that yep, Renamon sure is a girl!

You can argue that what they meant was Digimon don’t have biological sexes, because that’s blatantly true that they don’t, but the thing is that saying that doesn’t actually change anything!

Because, yes, they used the word seibetsu, which is the word for biological sex, rather than seijinin, the word for gender identity… but concept of discussing gender identities as separate from sex didn’t exist in common parlance yet; the fact that they responded to the question of “Are you a girl?” with “Digimon do not have those categories” is already explicit confirmation.

It is conflating gender identity and biological sex by saying that Renamon does not have either.

What part of the dialogue that takes place implies that they are female? They do not respond to Rika’s mother when she asserts that Renamon must be a woman, and in fact seem perturbed by that response.

If the creators intent was to confirm that Renamon is a girl, don’t you think they would have had Renamon answer yes? Why would Renamon even bring up that Digimon don’t have genders unless that is relevant to that question?

If the creators intended you to come away with the idea that Renamon is a girl, why would they even bring it up, and why would Renamon not answer yes definitively?

The only way you could look at that scene and take away the idea that Renamon is definitely a girl is if you already believed that they were and wouldn’t take anything less than them saying “I am a man” as an answer otherwise.

And that’s an even weirder fact as to why it’s strange their gender has been ignored so long; Renamon is voiced by a man in the German dub.

If Renamon was ever intended to be explicitly female, do you think they would have let the dubs cast a man to voice them? It’s not as if dubs are completely wild and disconnected to the original. Granted, they’re not super close, but they weren’t just the Wild West.

… Y’know you can jerk off to nonbinary characters too, right? Like, you don’t even have to stop being weird and horny about them.

I guess unless you’re some kind of terminally insecure weirdo who’s comfortable with fantasizing about fucking a cartoon fox, but only if they’re a woman cartoon fox.

Like, here’s the thing, I think people give weird horny furries too much shit when they’re generally just doing their own thing and not hurting anybody, but I find it bizarre for someone indulging in a culturally maligned paraphilia to be afraid of a much more mundane divergence from socially acceptable norms, and it’s so fucking weird how many people seem to fall into that category. It’s fundamentally conservative and hypocritical to the extreme, honestly.

Anyway! The second Renamon, or technically, the first in the drawing, is the Renamon featured in Digimon Survive! This one will have to deal with heavy spoilers for the game, so I’m sorry to any fans who haven’t played, because I can’t really avoid them.
First off, I really, really loved Digimon Survive. It was a flawed game with a rough and slow start, but I ultimately love the characters and the story, and I think that’s what really matters, in the end.

Stop here if you plan to play it (you really should! It’s rough around the edges, but I loved it!)

This one is actually a lot more ambiguous than the explicit confirmation of Tamers!Renamon, because the translation for Digimon Survive is. Uh. Unique. And by unique I mean inconsistent. So figuring out a Digimon character’s gender is hard to do as a result.

But, I actually think it’s a lot easier with Renamon than most of the other characters; Renamon spends the majority of the game masquerading in the guise of his human partner’s brother, as she’s had half of her soul ripped out and will only respond to him when he’s in the guise of the brother. As a result, he obviously spends most of the game being referred to with male pronouns!

Ah, you say, but he was in disguise! We also see that when he appears out of disguise in Chapter 5, that he’s consistently referred to with female pronouns, doesn’t that confirm it?… well, you see, there’s something notable about Chapter 5! Every other main protagonist Digimon is misgendered in that chapter!
It’s very obvious and notable that the translator for Chapter 5 may have been different than the main translator, as Labramon and Syakomon, two Digimon who are voiced by women and referred to in literally every other chapter with she/her pronouns, are referred to exclusively in this chapter with he/him instead.

So, if the only chapter in which Renamon is referred to with female pronouns is the one where every other major Digimon is also misgendered, isn’t that almost confirmation of his gender as male?

Even after being discovered as not actually Haru Minase, Renamon is consistently (except for one singular error) referred to with male pronouns, and he even actually resumes assuming Haru’s form, as he feels more comfortable assuming it.

As such, I feel like, given he’s most often referred to with male pronouns, and also most often spends his time in a male form, it’s most logical to work under the assumption that he’s male.

Despite this, his is at least more ambiguous, even if I think it’s much more logical to take it at face value, so this is technically the only part of this image that is a headcanon rather than explicit canon.

Anyway, this is just a picture of the Renamons going to pride! Survive!Renamon is spooked and embarassed by all of the attention, and Miyuki is there as moral support (and enjoying his embarassment a little), while Tamers!Renamon is much more open about it, since they already are in canon! Rika is also here for emotional support, but her Renamon doesn’t need it as much

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I finished my piece for pride! And here it is! Renamon from Digimon Survive and Digimon Tamers, and their partners, Miyuki Minase and Rika Nonaka/Ruki Makino (Who I will be henceforth be referring to as Rika because I have terminal Watched The Dubs As A Kid brain).

I come to present to you canon information!

This is in fact, not a headcanon piece!

This is quite explicit canon!

Or at least, one of these is explicit canon and the other is implicitly canon.

Yes, you see, despite Renamon being the patron saint of weird horny furries everywhere, Renamon actually, very explicitly, is not a girl! And this is explicit, textual canon! That everyone has just… deliberately ignored for some reason?

We’re going to focus on the Renamon from Digimon Tamers first, as that’s the Renamon most people know and the one that’s more explicit.

The scene that explicitly confirms it is here!

And… that’s pretty clear, isn’t it? Pretty damn explicit!

If you need even more, Chiaki J. Konaka, on his own website , discussed this!

“At first, I had a sort of androgynous image in mind for Renamon. Officially, digimon do not have gender; however, many Digimon such as Agumon and Gabumon acted like young boys, and there are quite a few obviously female digimon as well. If anything, gender seems fairly easy to identify in digimon.

Eventually, Renamon would become Sakuyamon, a very feminine digimon. I thought that I was start Renamon out as a "genderless" digimon, and have that be a large part of its personality.”

You could argue that means that Renamon is transgender, IE; Agender to female trans, but the fact is that Sakuyamon is a biomerge evolution, IE; Rika and Renamon combined together, and thus, it can be assumed that Sakuyamon is female because Rika is female, and not because that’s the natural progression of their gender.

As well, Renamon uses the gender neutral pronoun “Watashi”, while this is used more often by women in casual contexts, it is also fairly explicitly not exclusive to women and can be understood as a deliberate choice given the other context given.

Now, I’m gonna get a bit mean here, but it’s honestly annoying how in any upload of that scene you can find on YouTube, you’ll find dozens of people huffing copium trying to construct a justification for why, despite explicit confirmation in the text, that Renamon can still be a girl.

What kind of weapons grade copium do you have to be mainlining to look at a scene where Renamon is asked if they’re a girl and they respond that “By nature, Digimon don’t have genders” and think the takeaway the creators wanted you to have was that yep, Renamon sure is a girl!

You can argue that what they meant was Digimon don’t have biological sexes, because that’s blatantly true that they don’t, but the thing is that saying that doesn’t actually change anything!

Because, yes, they used the word seibetsu, which is the word for biological sex, rather than seijinin, the word for gender identity… but concept of discussing gender identities as separate from sex didn’t exist in common parlance yet; the fact that they responded to the question of “Are you a girl?” with “Digimon do not have those categories” is already explicit confirmation.

It is conflating gender identity and biological sex by saying that Renamon does not have either.

What part of the dialogue that takes place implies that they are female? They do not respond to Rika’s mother when she asserts that Renamon must be a woman, and in fact seem perturbed by that response.

If the creators intent was to confirm that Renamon is a girl, don’t you think they would have had Renamon answer yes? Why would Renamon even bring up that Digimon don’t have genders unless that is relevant to that question?

If the creators intended you to come away with the idea that Renamon is a girl, why would they even bring it up, and why would Renamon not answer yes definitively?

The only way you could look at that scene and take away the idea that Renamon is definitely a girl is if you already believed that they were and wouldn’t take anything less than them saying “I am a man” as an answer otherwise.

And that’s an even weirder fact as to why it’s strange their gender has been ignored so long; Renamon is voiced by a man in the German dub.

If Renamon was ever intended to be explicitly female, do you think they would have let the dubs cast a man to voice them? It’s not as if dubs are completely wild and disconnected to the original. Granted, they’re not super close, but they weren’t just the Wild West.

… Y’know you can jerk off to nonbinary characters too, right? Like, you don’t even have to stop being weird and horny about them.

I guess unless you’re some kind of terminally insecure weirdo who’s comfortable with fantasizing about fucking a cartoon fox, but only if they’re a woman cartoon fox.

Like, here’s the thing, I think people give weird horny furries too much shit when they’re generally just doing their own thing and not hurting anybody, but I find it bizarre for someone indulging in a culturally maligned paraphilia to be afraid of a much more mundane divergence from socially acceptable norms, and it’s so fucking weird how many people seem to fall into that category. It’s fundamentally conservative and hypocritical to the extreme, honestly.

Anyway! The second Renamon, or technically, the first in the drawing, is the Renamon featured in Digimon Survive! This one will have to deal with heavy spoilers for the game, so I’m sorry to any fans who haven’t played, because I can’t really avoid them.
First off, I really, really loved Digimon Survive. It was a flawed game with a rough and slow start, but I ultimately love the characters and the story, and I think that’s what really matters, in the end.

Stop here if you plan to play it (you really should! It’s rough around the edges, but I loved it!)

This one is actually a lot more ambiguous than the explicit confirmation of Tamers!Renamon, because the translation for Digimon Survive is. Uh. Unique. And by unique I mean inconsistent. So figuring out a Digimon character’s gender is hard to do as a result.

But, I actually think it’s a lot easier with Renamon than most of the other characters; Renamon spends the majority of the game masquerading in the guise of his human partner’s brother, as she’s had half of her soul ripped out and will only respond to him when he’s in the guise of the brother. As a result, he obviously spends most of the game being referred to with male pronouns!

Ah, you say, but he was in disguise! We also see that when he appears out of disguise in Chapter 5, that he’s consistently referred to with female pronouns, doesn’t that confirm it?… well, you see, there’s something notable about Chapter 5! Every other main protagonist Digimon is misgendered in that chapter!
It’s very obvious and notable that the translator for Chapter 5 may have been different than the main translator, as Labramon and Syakomon, two Digimon who are voiced by women and referred to in literally every other chapter with she/her pronouns, are referred to exclusively in this chapter with he/him instead.

So, if the only chapter in which Renamon is referred to with female pronouns is the one where every other major Digimon is also misgendered, isn’t that almost confirmation of his gender as male?

Even after being discovered as not actually Haru Minase, Renamon is consistently (except for one singular error) referred to with male pronouns, and he even actually resumes assuming Haru’s form, as he feels more comfortable assuming it.

As such, I feel like, given he’s most often referred to with male pronouns, and also most often spends his time in a male form, it’s most logical to work under the assumption that he’s male.

Despite this, his is at least more ambiguous, even if I think it’s much more logical to take it at face value, so this is technically the only part of this image that is a headcanon rather than explicit canon.

Anyway, this is just a picture of the Renamons going to pride! Survive!Renamon is spooked and embarassed by all of the attention, and Miyuki is there as moral support (and enjoying his embarassment a little), while Tamers!Renamon is much more open about it, since they already are in canon! Rika is also here for emotional support, but her Renamon doesn’t need it as much