Masculine Androgyny,
jaded traditionalist.
"The system is necessary" regret--- Ze'd love Dani's ideals, but ze doesn't trust that they can happen.

Ze's been Sie's support in the past, the authoritative push for hir to support hirself. Suspicious of idealism and failed promises, ze favors creating a better system with which to fix what's broken: human kind. Rationalistic, but based in a few assumptions of disenchanted "realism" that cause hir to irrationally deny some possibilities.

"Things aren't what we wanted, and they probably can't be. But let's work together with what we've got already--instead of dreaming about what we don't."

Ze originated from a series of dichotomy doodles I did, specifically whenever I contemplated trans- topics. I was musing on my gender identity, and who and what I consider myself to be. I started drawing female and male versions of myself---but, I tended to draw the males with long dark hair, and the females with shorter, light hair.

Ze came about when I started writing out the fragment of a conversation, and the picture of two androgynous figures; one, the lighter-haired, shorter looking one, looked to be crying and clutching to the other's legs. The other was taller, with lengthy, greasy hair draping down over shoulders. The idea that had been running through my mind was that I kept expecting someone to come and tell me what to do. But no one was; my teachers were only giving assignments, my parents and I weren't talking a great deal, and many people seemed to be giving me space in which to make my own decisions. This was an whirling, painful place of confusion, and like the shorter figure, I wanted to crouch down and clutch at and screech that---but I wasn't trusting myself to actually do so at anyone I knew.

Instead, I recalled the various gender neutral pronouns that I knew of; Ze being my favorite, Sie my second favorite. Ze looks, sounds, and feels more masculine, more curt, and with a harsher sound than Sie, which is longer, softer, and shaped similarly to She. I had names for the characters, and had the ideas of several interactions between them.