Not everyone is sold on the idea of using pronouns, and/or prefer to use gender. I think you should offer both options and allow the user to turn them on/off per project.
the pronouns field informs the LLM on the mechanics of writing the character. It’s not a woke thing, it is a way to explicitly state what terms you want the engine to use. If you have a shapeless monster, it’s easier to say “call it ‘him’” than say “well its GENDER is amorphous alien chaos but please use ‘him’ because that’s how the main character thinks of him”
so for clarity’s sake, i prefer how it is now.
K. Quinn Rattray
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Dec 18, 2025
I don’t really understand how “turning off pronouns” would work in practice. Pronouns are unavoidable in natural prose, and Sudowrite already handles gendered language consistently. This sounds more like discomfort with the pronoun field itself than an actual generation problem.
Vaturna
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Dec 17, 2025
I find the Pronouns field mostly redundant and not very effective at conveying information.
For anyone male or female, LLMs are smart enough to know intuitively how to address the character in third person. For anyone else I find it more efficient and versatile to just use pronouns and ways to address the character inside the descriptions themselves (especially since I occasionally had issues with LLMs that they didn’t actually use the Pronoun field in the past for something like “it”, depending on the model).
Personally, I don’t find Pronouns very useful, so I always leave them blank. If I could turn them off I probably would (and leave some more space for “Other Names”). Not sure if gender needs a special field, I prefer to just put this into my background together with other core information like the character’s status or age.
Vaturna
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Dec 29, 2025
To be more specific what I mean with static “Pronouns” not being as versatile:
If I have a character who is a female dog, then I want to address them as either “she” (more personal, requires the POV or the character who’s speaking to know that the dog is female) or “it” (treating the dog as just another animal, not a person - perfectly valid depending on the POV or who is talking). LLMs generally don’t have any issues differentiating between these cases intuitively, specifying what pronouns to use in the character card itself becomes unwieldy very fast when I want to switch between different forms.
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Ava 👑
Dec 26, 2025
the pronouns field informs the LLM on the mechanics of writing the character. It’s not a woke thing, it is a way to explicitly state what terms you want the engine to use. If you have a shapeless monster, it’s easier to say “call it ‘him’” than say “well its GENDER is amorphous alien chaos but please use ‘him’ because that’s how the main character thinks of him”
so for clarity’s sake, i prefer how it is now.
K. Quinn Rattray
Dec 18, 2025
I don’t really understand how “turning off pronouns” would work in practice. Pronouns are unavoidable in natural prose, and Sudowrite already handles gendered language consistently. This sounds more like discomfort with the pronoun field itself than an actual generation problem.
Vaturna
Dec 17, 2025
I find the Pronouns field mostly redundant and not very effective at conveying information.
For anyone male or female, LLMs are smart enough to know intuitively how to address the character in third person.
For anyone else I find it more efficient and versatile to just use pronouns and ways to address the character inside the descriptions themselves (especially since I occasionally had issues with LLMs that they didn’t actually use the Pronoun field in the past for something like “it”, depending on the model).
Personally, I don’t find Pronouns very useful, so I always leave them blank. If I could turn them off I probably would (and leave some more space for “Other Names”).
Not sure if gender needs a special field, I prefer to just put this into my background together with other core information like the character’s status or age.
Vaturna
Dec 29, 2025
To be more specific what I mean with static “Pronouns” not being as versatile:
If I have a character who is a female dog, then I want to address them as either “she” (more personal, requires the POV or the character who’s speaking to know that the dog is female) or “it” (treating the dog as just another animal, not a person - perfectly valid depending on the POV or who is talking).
LLMs generally don’t have any issues differentiating between these cases intuitively, specifying what pronouns to use in the character card itself becomes unwieldy very fast when I want to switch between different forms.