I've received clarification

[xp_catseye]

I have asked, and for those wondering: Rictor's post about having a plant that contains the spirit of a man is not a veiled reference to his new relationship with Shatterstar. Discussion around a sapient plant still makes no sense, but let's congratulate them both.

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[xp_lusized]

most plants aren't talking to us though, you can be intersex and still identify as a single gender, so he could be a man-thing or a they-thing, or a man and just stuck in a plant body

possession makes gender confusing

[xp_catseye]

Sex and gender are also distinct, at least to my nose. Although if he's a plant, would there even be chemical signifiers to detect?

I must smell the Man-Thing.