Quick example from a silly game my users added years ago:
<~dgw> !mylife
<&Kaede> dgw will grow to be very subterranian. $Heshe will $verb $adverb, and often. $Heshe will develop an unhealthy obsession for $nouns, even reaching the point of attempting to marry one. However, their childhood friend someone will intervene, returning them to sanity just in time, and $heshe will instead marry the one who saved $himher.
Emphasis added to show what seems to be the cause: $someone resolving to a literal "someone", i.e. no one else has spoken recently so there is no nick for which to fetch gender info if $heshe, $himher, etc. get used.
Fix is probably "as simple as" automatically returning the "they/them" pronoun set in this case.
Quick example from a silly game my users added years ago:
<~dgw> !mylife <&Kaede> dgw will grow to be very subterranian. $Heshe will $verb $adverb, and often. $Heshe will develop an unhealthy obsession for $nouns, even reaching the point of attempting to marry one. However, their childhood friend someone will intervene, returning them to sanity just in time, and $heshe will instead marry the one who saved $himher.
Emphasis added to show what seems to be the cause:
$someoneresolving to a literal "someone", i.e. no one else has spoken recently so there is no nick for which to fetch gender info if$heshe,$himher, etc. get used.Fix is probably "as simple as" automatically returning the "they/them" pronoun set in this case.