If you are implying that I am dissecting Kris' gender or whatever else by questioning such things, then simply state that. It is far less confusing.

I am sure there is some truth to this but I am entirely unclear on how it relates to my question about the standards by which gender/sexuality headcanons are judged as faithful or nontextual.

An 'individual' experience in what sense? I do not know what you are referring to.

Why would Kris be any more comfortable with the label 'lesbian' than 'girl'? What textual evidence are we deriving this intuition from?

When people say that Kris is nonbinary, they have a quite particular image in their mind, even if that image allows a range of possibilities. But this intuition, however, is simply not explicit in the text of the game. We have only their pronouns and certain conspicuous *absences* to work from.

Transmasc Kris is a fantasy. It is what many wish their childhood had been; a kind of unremarkable male-leaning androgyny.

Transfem Kris is far closer to the real experience of being transfem as a teenager.

Given that Toby Fox is, in order of likelihood: 1) a cis man, 2) agender, 3) transfeminine, I do find transfem Kris far more likely than a transmasc Kris -- (authors tend to write what they know) -- but who can truly say? Perhaps he secretly cavorts with trans men day and night.

Unless Kris themself appears on my screen and explains, "Yes, I am a boymoding they/them transfem lesbian and not any other secret identity," I am uninterested in becoming at all invested.

Ralsei is a person. He is not a mythic or abstract figure in Deltarune's story. Whatever allegorical relationship exists between Kris and Ralsei, it must be a social, interpersonal relationship. He is not a video game character in relation to Kris.

Somehow, I think that E. E. Cummings was suggesting the very opposite idea.

If I am shown another post in which a New Age agnostic presumes that 'death is bad' is some insane, anti-Christian idea in order to insult a technocrat they dislike, I will begin proselytising.