Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140803191129

Arguments for male Scarlet:
 * 1) Why would they make a female character with that hairdo?
 * 2) Flat chest.
 * 3) He completes the four man K-pop boy band theme.
 * 4) He is most likely an allusion to Red Boy/"Scarlet" from Journey to the West.

Arguments for female Scarlet:
 * 1) That slight bump on his chest kind of sort of looks like a breast bump. *rolls eyes*
 * 2) Scarlet is a girl name.
 * 3) Monty is ambiguous when referring to Scarlet, using terms like "it" and "that character" and "them."

Since this is a biased proclamation, I'm just gonna debunk the three fem args and then sit back.
 * 1) That slight bump is a pec. It is a pectoral muscle that all men of reasonable athletic build possess. It just means he works out some.
 * 2) Scarlet derives from the surname Scarlett. All surnames are unisex. Thus Scarlet is unisex... no matter what modern websites may say.
 * 3) Monty may be ambiguous when referring to Scarlet, but let me be clear: he has never outright confirmed the gender of any other character. Allow me to present the relevant examples: Coco (Monty says "Coco cosplayer", not she, not her), Fox (again, Monty says "Fox cosplay", not him, not he), Yatsuhashi (the only clue Monty gave as to his gender was a pic of Yatsuhashi Kengyo, but that means nothing as we already have characters who are genderbends), Sage (now while the poster to whom he is responding calls Sage a "dude", Monty's confirmation is due to him mentioning the green-hair and is not a direct confirmation that Sage is a "dude"), Neptune (Monty revealed Neptune on his facebook, making no mention of his gender).

I suppose you may argue that Scarlet is the only character so far whose gender is in doubt which would mean that Monty didn't feel the need to confirm the gender of the others. But so far as we know, he feels the same is true about Scarlet and any question about his gender just sounds ridiculous and we should feel ashamed for even thinking that he could be a girl. Of course, Monty is too much of a gentleman to say that aloud. 