Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140818053714/@comment-24994749-20140911031748

The Devil's Advocate WP wrote: What I think happens is that people suspect it because of how Scarlet is dressed and then look for evidence to support what they believe about the character. It starts out with a presumption about the character's style of dress, but then ends with finding something to support the initial suspicion. Not that it is too surprising since the androgynous style is intended to make a person's gender less clear to others and people seeing someone of unclear gender immediately speculate about what that means.

When I first saw Scarlet, I automatically assumed they were male because all the other 3 members of the team were males so I applied the unspoken rule we have had so far of teams being all one gender or half/half. Plus, all females in the show so far have had figures nearing the 90-60-90 proportion which Scarlet doesn't sport. Sure their face and hairstyle can honestly go anywhere but I didn't really stop to think about it cause the animation style can make face modelling kind of limiting and the only screenshot of his face ain't very clear, so comparing to the standard set so far in the series, they fell more on the male side than the female.

But then some people noticed that his chest was a bit protruding a tad bit too much to be pectorals and that their shoulders weren't so square as those of other male characters so far. And sure, in Extracurricular, during the cameo when he is standing with the rest of SSSN outside of Beacon, he has some slender legs going on.