Why would transition save them?: "Basically, Ibuki's narrative is about feeling like you're something you're not and wanting to free yourself from your burdens and become who you are. For context, Ibuki is a ninja raised in the Glade of Ninjas, and is implied to have been an orphan; this means that likely, the Glade of Ninjas raised her, likely with the belief that she must be a ninja and only a ninja. A lot of the parts of Street Fighter only reinforce this; despite Ibuki wanting to escape that life and become normal, she keeps being pulled back into the realm of ninjas without her wanting to. Similarly, Ibuki seems to be pulled towards the compulsive need to gender herself as a girl and as a cishet girl at that, even though she probably would rather not have an internal gender identity at all and just exist as Ibuki, a news reporter living in an apartment somewhere in Japan. This compulsive need to fit cishet feminine norms vs. the wanting to just be is a common agender narrative for agender people assigned female at birth, and I personally believe she would just feel better without a gender to care about. Why agender, specifically? Well...I saw an icon edit of Ibuki as agender even though it was intended to (likely) be the Danganronpa character Ibuki Mioda, and even though I know realistically the headcanon was about Ibuki Mioda, the idea of Ibuki from Street Fighter's narrative as an agender narrative stuck with me. So yeah. Agender Ibuki." --mod @sunkern-plus