Screw what time it is I have to vomit this out

The epilogues partly explain the discrepancy in how Roxy identifies by saying that Roxy had to live life differently as a mother. I think that this speaks volumes about Roxy’s character, considering a lot of Roxy’s transition in the epilogues is explored through talking to Dave, their biological son, and Dave wondering whether to call them his father or not.

I think to Roxy gender is largely related to family. Roxy is the one with heteronormative ideas of romance that they present to Dirk. Roxy and Dirk also have no traditional gender assignment because human society is dead. What they do have are guardians they look up to and model themselves after.

The one time Roxy describes their gender personally in Meat, they say it’s close to non-binary, but not quite. I think that this says so much about Roxy as a character. In each timeline, they identify in relation to the niche they can fill in a family. I find this to be a bittersweet and relatable trans experience that also aligns with Roxy’s people-pleasing personality. I don’t see this talked about a lot, I think because people tend to take the narration at face value and not look closer at what Roxy is saying, which feels like a meta-mirror to how trans people can be made side characters in their transition outside of fiction as well.