The Eight Antidotes

All of the authority figures are female yeah it hadn't even occurred to me until just now that you have close advisors that are male like 20 cicada with nine hibiscus. Except for eight antidote everybody an antidote is an 11 year old boy old kid kidEverybody else is female and also of course the imperial rat sales takes it one further because a lot of the time we don't everybody is female pronoun but we don't even know what the gender these people are right? It doesn't really matter in this universe so let's go ahead and jump over into spoilers so we can talk about whatever we want to from here on.