I doubt there's anyone on this site who isn't familiar with MalO at this point. They're the most populated SCP object tag by a factor of nearly 6. People really wanna fuck this skeledoggo, and the site is liable to see a new influx of images as people start drawing Halloween/horror-themed porn for October. But there's something strange to me about the community's de facto consensus on how they're depicted: They're approximately 90% more likely to be portrayed as female than as male.

"What's so weird about that?" I hear you cry, and my answer is this.

What you're looking at is "Breynz the Zombie Werewolf", a suit owned by TaranGryph, a Danish furry who doesn't appear to have gone online anywhere at all for an entire decade at this point. More specifically, this is the original photo that would later be desaturated and used as the article header for the SCP Foundation page that gave us the concept of MalO as we know it today. But you'll notice something odd in the description, as well as throughout the rest of her DA and FA galleries, and that's the fact that Taran only ever refers to the character as he/him.

So what does this imply about MalO as a character? Does this mean that the most popular interpretation of them is technically Rule 63? Should MalO be considered as having a "canon" gender? Does this entail going through every image of them with big ol' badonkahonkeroos and manually tagging them all with "crossgender"? Or does all the already-existing art being overwhelmingly majority-female grandfather that version of them in as the codified "official design"? Are there any precedents for fanwork of a fanwork being deemed as sufficiently detached from the original property to count as its own separate thing? And since Taran's been MIA for the past 10 years, does the proverbial Dante Alighieri who wrote the initial SCP article have any say in this (if they even WANT to acknowledge all the people gooning over their creepypasta in the first place)?

Let's see how much discussion we can drum up over something that, objectively speaking, could not possibly matter any less if it tried.

Most likely nobody knew this, other than those who knew Taran personally, or knew who they were at the con mentioned in the link. But it is nice to get to know the origin of MalO/SCP-1471.

Maybe its the SCP thing and the whole MalO NSFW fanart thing that drove TaranGryph off the internet. It would make sense, seeing what their character/suit became.

https://www.deviantart.com/tarangryph/art/Who-381907843 She also referred to it as "lady"

I think since SCP-1471-a is considered its own seperate entity from the original fursuit design and just reuses the design we would not tag crossgender, it's kinda like Breynz is portraying 1471-a.

also, crossgender doesn't take into account what is the most popular way to portray a character, just what is canon, if a character has no known canon gender then don't tag them as crossgender.

People really wanna fuck this skeledoggo

Yeah, we horny 😈

You can think of Mal0 as, say...Sonic.exe, it looks like Sonic but it isn't Sonic, it is simply based on him. Also remember that Mal0 is a program (a specie of sorts if you think about it), therefore it can have multiple instances, and it just so happens that most of them are female.

This wouldn't be the first time artist "agree" to draw a character in a certain way, take for example all the demons from Doom, it is never (to my knowledge) clarified in the games if they are male or female, yet most of the art has them with lady bits.