Talk:"Quickdraw"/@comment-97.100.142.182-20170502170003/@comment-454133-20170719162427

Yup, and all three factions of X-Wing are surprisingly gender-open, even the Empire. Scum and Rebel also consist of lots of different species... Though from what I can tell, the Empire is not thrilled about hiring non-humans (except as mercs or sith lords), so a TIE pilot is probably not, say, Bossk's cousin.

Also sometimes writers are formally instructed to use the opposite gender from the stereotype, as a general rule, when gender is unknown. For example, a secretary is "he" and a doctor is "she", to keep readers from making limiting assumptions. There's quite a bit of manufactured controversy around this writing style. I've managed other wikis and been amazed to see the dedication some users have to fighting this trend. Once on the D&D wiki, the author copied the text from the book verbatim (which used female pronouns), but then some anonymous user (and gods... it's always the anonymous users, so you can never ask them why) went through the article word-by-word, replacing every pronoun with the male version. Apparently they found a female Ranger or Fighter disturbing, and thus considered the female pronoun unprofessional? Who knows. :)

The general consensus (and response to such nonsense) in most wikis is, we don't care. You can use neutral prounouns (they, their), male or female, doesn't matter. Until Quickdraw takes the helmet off and reveals itself to be an Evil-Dimension Leia, or a super-intelligent shade of the color purple, it's moot to worry about gender.

Plus the absense of stated gender opens the door to imagining this pilot the way you like. It's probably a K4 droid though. I mean, obviously.