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thps48
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@ApplejackFan204  
Yeah, but the other half wasn’t certain, as aforementioned. :\
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Awesome dude
@thps48  
Yeah it’s like Big Jim thought we were stupid and flat out told us the obvious.
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@ApplejackFan204  
So did half the fanbase, mang. XD
 
(Well, actually, I think I may have been in the undecided and/or genderless Amaterasu-y boat(s). >w< )
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Awesome dude
Called it a while ago.
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@ChuymaruZ  
Yeah I thought Smolder looked and sounded like a boy. If the show or the show staff never used specific pronouns, I probably would have called Smoulder they/them.
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Thanks Jim, I honestly didn’t know.
MistyFan2478

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Smolder’s porn potential just increased tenfold.
 
Get to it then!
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Smolder’s porn potential just increased tenfold.
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MistyFan2478

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The eyes would work perfectly well with a male character, too. Everything about the design would work either way. I haved actually heard the voice, tho since I didn’t watch it so I don’t know about that.
 
Her voice is actually even more misleading. She had lines in two of the leaked episodes and in both of them it was very difficult to tell if it was male or female, since she has a “chill” personality similar to Dash’s and overall very few feminine characteristics.
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@ChuymaruZ
Just look at her in episode 11.
I know that some people were confused in s1e1 and thought that RD was a boy (by understandable reasons)
But Smolder takes the cake: she has really androgen voice, name and appearance; she looks much more buff then Ember (when they in the same scene) and has ‘chill dude’ personality.
No wonder people got confused.
 
Dash also has a “chill dude” personality and her voice sounds similar to Smolder’s, so it wasn’t really that much of a stretch to figure out that Smolder was female.
FlonnesIkramant

The eyes would work perfectly well with a male character, too. Everything about the design would work either way. I haved actually heard the voice, tho since I didn’t watch it so I don’t know about that.
 
I guess it was more likely for the writers to make her female since this is mlp after all.
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@Glim Glam
I figured that they woudn’t create a second female tomboy dragon character right after introducing Ember
 
Ember is more feminine than Smolder, for sure. Ember isn’t even really that much of a tomboy, she’s just more “tsundere”, while Smolder is a real tomboy.
Rokesh

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@ChuymaruZ  
Just look at her in episode 11.  
I know that some people were confused in s1e1 and thought that RD was a boy (by understandable reasons)  
But Smolder takes the cake: she has really androgen voice, name and appearance; she looks much more buff then Ember (when they in the same scene) and has ‘chill dude’ personality.  
No wonder people got confused.
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@Glim Glam  
I figured that they woudn’t create a second female tomboy dragon character right after introducing Ember
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@ChuymaruZ  
Have you heard her talk?
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@Rokesh  
@Esteban
 
I watched the episodes and knew instantly she was a girl. The eyes are a big clue, but the voice was either female or had to belong to very young boy – younger than Spike, which this dragon clearly wasn’t.
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@Rokesh
True, her raspy voice made me think that she’s a boy like Spike. Not to mention a male sounding name.
 
Her raspy voice sounded very similar to Dash’s, which made me think she was just a tomboy with a somewhat boyish voice.
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Fourway. ;3
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@Glim Glam  
So that’s the character people were going “traps are canon” over when the leaks first appeared.
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@ChuymaruZ  
It honestly looks like it could work either way. This would have been the perfect character to turn hermaphrodite or intersex or something like that.
Esteban
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@Rokesh  
True, her raspy voice made me think that she’s a boy like Spike. Not to mention a male sounding name.