I think I’ve been temporarily posessed by the @astercontrol Pattern Recognizer. Or maybe the universe is just trying to tell me something, though I have no idea what it might be.
See, I have had this half-joking, half-serious headcanon for a while, about the character Allenby Beardsley from the anime Mobile Fighter G Gundam. For those of you not familiar with her, she’s a mech pilot hailing from Sweden (or technically “Neo-Sweden” in the sci-fi future universe of the series), and she pilots a giant robot named the Nobel Gundam, which inexplicably is designed to look like Sailor Moon. This is especially weird in the context of the series, which contains multiple mech pilots from different countries, all piloting robots that are somehow based on national stereotypes. So while the name “Nobel Gundam” makes sense (named after Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize), I have no idea what a Japanese magical girl anime has to do with Sweden.
Anyways, my headcanon is based on the following aspects of the character:
- The name “Allenby Beardsley” is definitely not a traditional Swedish name. In fact, it consists of two English surnames, and is thus gender neutral.
- Allenby pilots a mech that looks very feminine, but is named after Alfred Nobel, a man.
- The blue hair.
From this, I have decided that Allenby Beardsley is nonbinary, goes by they/them pronouns, and that they chose their name themself.
Now, here’s where things get weird. I’ve had this half-joking headcanon for a while, but yesterday, I discovered that there’s a comedian/actor who goes by they/them pronouns, named… Ally Beardsley. And I thought “haha, that’s a funny coincidence”…
…but then, today, I discover “Alienby Comics” ( @alienbycomics ), by a they/she creator, who has explained that the name is a portmanteau of “Alien” and “Enby”.
So now I’m basically like this:
