What is Sasha's Gender?

[Croconaw]

Sasha is a male, or at least in my opinion. Sasha seems like a lazy type villager.

 

[Khaelis]

Could be a localization ordeal. Changing gender based on location. They've done it before.

Edit:

Supposedly, their French name is Alix and their Spanish name is Ariel.

 

[xlisapisa]

I thought Sasha was female at first because of the name and hair. But after others have pointed out that they were wearing the letter jacket and that’s usually a male default clothing item so it makes more sense they are male. Regardless of gender, they are cute and I like them a lot!

 

[KayDee]

More likely male. At first glance, the eyes made Sasha seem like a female but the more I look at it, Sasha looks just like a really young male

 

[Khaelis]

I thought Sasha was female at first because of the name and hair. But after others have pointed out that they were wearing the letter jacket and that’s usually a male default clothing item so it makes more sense they are male. Regardless of gender, they are cute and I like them a lot!

Considering the localizations have names such as Alix for the french language and Ariel for the spanish language, I am leaning towards Sasha being Male myself.

 

[Dracule]

They are a male and a lazy villager
99% on that

Watch Sasha be male and jock because of the letterman jacket.
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Also, I think Sasha’s a male mainly because of the letterman jacket, which @DJStarstryker pointed out earlier. I actually thought Ione was male and Sasha was female, but now I see Ione is female and Sasha could very well be male.

 

[edsett]

sasha, alix, and ariel are unisex names while mitchell and gerrit (german name) are usually male names so sasha might just be a pretty boy! i do hope they’re smug instead of lazy though

 

[Khaelis]

sasha, alix, and ariel are unisex names while mitchell and gerrit (german name) are usually male names so sasha might just be a pretty boy! i do hope they’re smug instead of lazy though

Plot twist: he is smol angry boy #Cranky

 

[Aardbei]

Could be a localization ordeal. Changing gender based on location. They've done it before.

Edit:

Supposedly, their French name is Alix and their Spanish name is Ariel.

They did that for special NPC only.
I think it would be a mess if a villager's gender changed based on the language

 

[Halloqueen]

My assumption at a glance was female, but the arguments for Sasha being a pretty boy male are also fairly convincing. Sasha's cool by me regardless.

 

[daringred_]

i assumed female, but they're probably male, which negates my interest in them. at least i don't have to bother clearing a space for them and can go ahead with moving in coco eventually.

personally, i would've preferred a female peppy with the letterman jacket being a nod to how cheerleaders (i.e. pep(py) squads) will often date football players and wear said jackets. that's just more interesting to me.

i just can't see them being male with those bangs, personally. without? sure. but every time i uncover them, i can only see female, so.

 

[Khaelis]

i assumed female, but they're probably male, which negates my interest in them. at least i don't have to bother clearing a space for them and can go ahead with moving in coco eventually.

personally, i would've preferred a female peppy with the letterman jacket being a nod to how cheerleaders (i.e. pep(py) squads) will often date football players and wear said jackets. that's just more interesting to me.

i just can't see them being male with those bangs, personally. without? sure. but every time i uncover them, i can only see female, so.

Sasha being female is still very possible; the issue is their Japenese and German/Dutch names being very masculine.

 

[Jinglefruit]

I can see what people are saying here, but at least where I am from, all of Sasha's translated names are female, and all of Quinns are male.
Also there's loads of examples where amiibo cards do not go male/female, the general trend is male/female but they switch repeatedly throughout each series, Series 3 has 264-270 (Marshal, Gala, Joey, Pippy, Buck, Bree and Rooney) all out of synch with the general trend of even numbers are female in that series.
I think people are reading into a pattern too much that is not concrete and has multiple breaks in the pattern in previous series.

Personally I think we could reframe this entire arguement to say "If this series did not have any sections where the gender order is reversed at all, then this series would be an outlier, as every other series is not 100% alternating." This makes it more likely that Sasha is female and Quinn is male to fit in with the larger pattern.


Edit: also ngl, it shouldn't matter at all what gender they are? They're having fun being their cute self and I'll love them for it either way.

 

[WaileaNoRei]

The cards are not always boy, girl, boy, girl
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With that being said I’ve only seen this with two males together as far as I know. I secretly hope Sasha is a female uchi, but I don’t see them as any other female role than that. They look more male to me although a cute one.

Edit: I was wrong
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Twiggy and Robin are both female. So there is a a pattern of boy, girl, but there are exceptions.

within the villagers in series 5, they all seem to follow the boy girl boy girl pattern, I don’t think people were extending that to all the series. It is interesting that you found it generally did alternate, I did not expect that.

since his original name is Mitchell, it seems pretty clear to me that the character is intended to be male.

many popular men’s looks in Japan (and other East Asian countries as well) look feminine to western audiences, which may explain why many of the European/ Americas names have gone in the direction of being androgynous/ unisex.

Obviously, whether he is male or not, he is pretty adorable!

and even though I do not think nintendo would intentionally create a non-binary character (japan has an extremely conservative and pretty sexist culture, and their gay marriage ban was just this year overturned.) I think it will be fun to have a character that can at least be interpreted as more open in terms of gender presentation.

 

[moonlights]

Female imo, looks like she could be peppy personality type.

 

[b100ming]

Their gender is Walmart bag.

It’s a thing! Someone on scratch said they identified as it!

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In addition to what you said, Sasha is also wearing the letter jacket as a default outfit. Yes, we can put any shirts/dresses on villagers, but I don't think they'd put that as the default outfit for a girl character.

Unless she’s a tomboy. Maybe they’re breaking stereotypes

 

[AlyssaAC]

It’s really hard to tell, but now that some people have mentioned it and the names for other languages, it seems Sasha is a male. Though I’ve never heard a boy being named Sasha before…

 

[b100ming]

Honestly I truly think Sasha is female. I always associate the cartoon characters with eyelashes to being female.

 

[Khaelis]

It’s really hard to tell, but now that some people have mentioned it and the names for other languages, it seems Sasha is a male. Though I’ve never heard a boy being named Sasha before…

Sasha (English, though often used for females and rarely for males), Alix (French) and Ariel (Spanish) are all unisex names. The issue lies in their Japanese and German/Dutch names being Mitchell and Gerrit respectively, are very blatantly male names. Hence why people think Sasha is male.

 

[nightglow]

I can see what people are saying here, but at least where I am from, all of Sasha's translated names are female, and all of Quinns are male.
Also there's loads of examples where amiibo cards do not go male/female, the general trend is male/female but they switch repeatedly throughout each series, Series 3 has 264-270 (Marshal, Gala, Joey, Pippy, Buck, Bree and Rooney) all out of synch with the general trend of even numbers are female in that series.
I think people are reading into a pattern too much that is not concrete and has multiple breaks in the pattern in previous series.

Personally I think we could reframe this entire arguement to say "If this series did not have any sections where the gender order is reversed at all, then this series would be an outlier, as every other series is not 100% alternating." This makes it more likely that Sasha is female and Quinn is male to fit in with the larger pattern.


Edit: also ngl, it shouldn't matter at all what gender they are? They're having fun being their cute self and I'll love them for it either way.

This is exactly how I see it.

Actually a little surprised this is such a discussion on here to be honest. Most people make up their own little head stories/cannons about ac characters anyway. I think the personality would play a larger role in "how should I view this character?"