While fantasy stories may send us flying off to realms far different than our own, one concept seems inescapable in even the most distant of lands: gender roles. Traditional fantasy stories are full of characters who defy traditional expectations of their assigned sex (consider the peasant girl to warrior pipeline, for instance) but rarely does a story feature a character who totally turns away from binary concepts as a whole. One would think that in so many expansive worlds, more expansive gender identities would emerge. But alas, while fantasy novels with genderqueer protagonists are sadly harder to find than fated swords of destiny, these 10 best fantasy books featuring non-binary characters still manage to cut through.
Kill Six Billion Demons
(Image Comics)Tom Parkinson-Morgan’s Kill Six Billion Demons is the tale of barista Allison Ruth, who was spirited away into a bizarre alternate universe and tasked with killing a warrior god who seeks to destroy it. A melting pot of world religions, this whacky Heaven is populated by stone angels, trash talking devils, and a plethora of other alien beings. One of Allison’s closest confidants is 87 White Chain Born In Emptiness Returns To Subdue Evil, a member of a peacekeeping order of martial artist angels who are all non-binary. Well, almost all non-binary. As White Chain gets more in touch with humanity through Allison’s influence, she actually transitions from non-binary to female in one of the most fascinating subversions of a transgender awakening narrative I’ve ever read. White Chain is scorned by her angelic peers, who view gender as an insipid thing that distances them from the divine. Considering the KSBD universe was created by a non-binary God named YISUN that uses they/them pronouns, those angels might be onto something?
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