Head cannon: Sasha is trans

[Skater]

If you haven’t heard yet despite the very feminine appearance and name, Sasha goes by he/him pronouns, super exciting stuff honestly. I don’t think it’s ever going to be confirmed whether or not Sasha is or is not but I think Sasha is most likely a trans man or is trans feminine or nonbinary .
Either way though I love him and I literally cannot wait to get him in my town.

EDIT: I guess we can’t be civil anymore these days, all this backlash just because I want more representation in games, people saying there must be something wrong with me and my perception of femininity and masculinity. I really hope we get to a point one day where we can talk about stuff like this without attacking people, especially people who clearly care about the same things, I will never understand this.
This is the last thing I’m going to say about this topic, I’m moving on don’t DM me.

A message to everyone else who was nice and shared their own head cannons, Thank you for your kind words, I love a lot of your ideas especially the ones about Sasha being a K-pop star, Stuff like this made me really happy as it gave me a lot of ideas for my own head canon and I really love that this game is so perfect for coming up with head cannons, especially since the villagers don’t really have very concrete personalities to begin with, this game is truly a creative beauty and it’s something I’m happy to have been playing for years.

 

[Sara?]

I dont mind if some people think he is trans, I am not very bother by him been male or even if he had been female, the way i see him is like a super cute little boy like not grown up, he is like mom little precious spoiled baby, you know ? thats how i see him , like someone you need to cherish and protect hahah

 

[Antonio]

Definitely head cannon them as non-binary.

 

[Croconaw]

I don’t think we can come to this conclusion based on appearance alone. I present more like a male but I’m certainly not trans. I think Sasha is just a male rabbit that is comfortable expressing himself. It’s that simple.

 

[Moritz]

I dont think theyre trans, or non binary, or anything like that.

Personally I dont understand why people think they have to be anything other than cis gendered just because they have typically feminine features.

To me this just pigeonholes people and is unfair stereotyping

 

[MayorofMapleton]

Sasha is Sasha, best to leave it there

 

[Skater]

I don’t think we can come to this conclusion based on appearance alone. I present more like a male but I’m certainly not trans. I think Sasha is just a male rabbit that is comfortable expressing himself. It’s that simple.

This is just my own head cannon. It’s really nice to see a very feminine male villager for sure!

 

[Ace Marvel]

For me is just a boy Kpop idol.

In my personal opinion, a person can be trans/non binary without them needing to be feminine or masculine.

At the same time a lot of this game is open for interpretation, I think Julian and Colton are a thing, so you do you, is your island.

 

[Skater]

For me is just a boy Kpop idol.

In my personal opinion, a person can be trans/non binary without them needing to be feminine or masculine.

At the same time a lot of this game is open for interpretation, I think Julian and Colton are a thing, so you do you, is your island.

I love that, like what if he had a K-pop group with all the Sanrio villagers, I should totally make a group photo like that, with them in-front of instruments!

 

[nightglow]

I'd rather not for things like that to be confirmed. Leave the interpretation to the individual. Just because a character is male with some aspects that seem feminine doesn't mean they are trans or nonbinary. They could simply be a male who have some feminine aspects and that is ok too.
not trying to sound abrasive

 

[-Blue-]

Headcanon just means what the OP sees them as, not what they dictate them as. I do want to say that the first pic about Sasha taking selfies all the time seems like such a smug thing to do, but I read in another topic that he is lazy? Seems like they're flip-flopping on his personality.

 

[Skater]

I'd rather not for things like that to be confirmed. Leave the interpretation to the individual. Just because a character is male with some aspects that seem feminine doesn't mean they are trans or nonbinary. They could simply be a male who have some feminine aspects and that is ok too.
not trying to sound abrasive

For sure! Honestly I think that’s a lot of the beauty of this game is just being able to come up with your own custom interpretation of events and characters. It’s kind of like the perfect game to build off on with stuff like that.

 

[daringred_]

This is just my own head cannon. Either way though, it’s really nice to see a very feminine male villager for sure!

if you're looking for "trans-coded" villagers, julia and papi are definitely the way to go! julia is female but modeled after male peacocks, since females of that species don't have the colorful plumage she does, and papi is male but modeled after female okapi, since males of that species have visible "horns" (called ossicones) and he doesn't have any. it's one of my favorite animal crossing "facts" actually!

 

[Etown20]

I dont think theyre trans, or non binary, or anything like that.

Personally I dont understand why people think they have to be anything other than cis gendered just because they have typically feminine features.

To me this just pigeonholes people and is unfair stereotyping

The reason someone may want to think this is because certain groups and lifestyles are underrepresented in media and especially video games.

I don't want to speak for anybody, but I assume in good faith that most people choosing to think Sasha is non-binary are not trying to stereotype males with feminine features as non-binary. They are just looking for representation in a space that often chooses not to recognize them.

 

[Moritz]

To answer your question as to why someone may want to think this, it's because certain groups and lifestyles are underrepresented in media and especially video games.

I don't want to speak for anybody, but I assume in good faith that most people choosing to think Sasha is non-binary are not trying to stereotype males with feminine features as non-binary. They are just looking for representation in a space that often chooses not to recognize them.

To be fair when I made my comment, the post hadn't been edited to say it was their head canon.
The part I took most issue with has actually been edited out too.

The original post made it sound like they were saying that while nintendo hasn't confirmed it, that sasha is clearly meant to be trans.

Now they edited that part out and put it that it's their head canon, I take no issue at all and I likely would not have made the comment at all.

 

[Mutti]

I think we can all agree, sasha is a new character and seems to be very popular.
there will be ALOT of nmt’s being traded for them

 

[VexTheHex]

I still don't like or support the notion that Sasha has to be this or that cause he doesn't look masculine enough to some. Sasha could be a cis male that is a complete player in his high school sporting that letterman jacket.

It'd be like saying Quinn and Petri have to be nonbinary or transgendered cause cis females can't be tomboys or go into science. :/

 

[piske]

idk but that bunny has some fly eyeliner, i could learn a thing or two

 

[Skater]

To be fair when I made my comment, the post hadn't been edited to say it was their head canon.
The part I took most issue with has actually been edited out too.

The original post made it sound like they were saying that while nintendo hasn't confirmed it, that sasha is clearly meant to be trans.

Now they edited that part out and put it that it's their head canon, I take no issue at all and I likely would not have made the comment at all.

It’s true I did make an edit to the post but I only added it to the bottom part and anything else that was changed it was only to correct spelling or grammar, I didn’t mean for it to sound like that at all, sorry for the confusion.

 

[Etown20]

To be fair when I made my comment, the post hadn't been edited to say it was their head canon.
The part I took most issue with has actually been edited out too.

The original post made it sound like they were saying that while nintendo hasn't confirmed it, that sasha is clearly meant to be trans.

Now they edited that part out and put it that it's their head canon, I take no issue at all and I likely would not have made the comment at all.

It's all good. Not accusing you or anybody here of this, there's just a common refrain that happens anytime a new character breaks social norms where a group of people will say "I'm not sure why race/gender/orientation" matters. It may not matter to everybody, but to a person who hasn't felt seen, the representation matters a lot. That's all I wanted to say.