Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-38502514-20190216075013/@comment-5333827-20190219170136

Elveonora wrote: Orochimaru is male... when he came out from Sasuke's Curse Mark, it was his own male body. When he got revived, again in his own original male body, meaning said form is tied to his chakra, regardless of transferring into a female host body. Good point.

Seelentau wrote: Thing is, they did bring up his sex. For example, the whole fuss about him being Mitsuki's parent, not his dad or mom. Plus, Orochimaru's whole shtick is being a body-swapping, and thereby sex-changing crazy scientist.

The problem is, we don't know what exactly happens when he takes over a new body. Does the new body's sex stay the same? Or does Orochimaru's takeover change it? Because his original sex was male. Since we can't be entirely sure of what happens, and considering that he has had host bodies from both sexes, various is probably the most accurate way to present it. This actually isn't true. We know he inhabits the body of the new host and uses jutsu to make it appear like his old body. Shown and stated clearly when he fought the 3rd hokage, and when he took over the prisoners body instead of sasuke's. However, each time he is reconstituted from chakra alone (curse mark both times) he is back to his original male body.

And this entire debate is now about hurting someones feelings or not and not about facts. Needs dropped honestly before it gets out of hand.