That's interesting! My wife and I both pictured him as masculine. In my case, as a cis, bi man who's honestly evaluated how I play my gender, it was because a lot of the way Murderbot feels about being amidst humans is IMO just dead-on how a lot of men feel being amidst women?
Like "everyone here is a little wary of me, and I can't even really blame them for it, because I just categorically am a more threatening presence."
Like "everyone here is a little wary of me, and I can't even really blame them for it, because I just categorically am a more threatening presence."