🌺 This is a really difficult question for me to answer simply because of the fact I really don’t know as much about flowers as I would like. So I hope this doesn’t feel like a cop out but I’m going to go with the camellia.

💅 This is the one that I’ve been really interested in putting into words. Gender roles are a human construct. Even when it comes to sexual identities it’s purely biological to Newt– ie they’re born with such and such sexual organ and are thus capable of pregnancy or impregnation but after that he doesn’t really consider anything more. 

This is kind of a revolutionary idea in his time– He’s from the 20s and it’s illegal to have same-sex relations with a man. Women in many countries still don’t have a lot of basic rights (let alone other minorities). And it’s not because Newt is a revolutionary in that sense but that it doesn’t matter to him.

By this I mean, he’s seen creatures on all sorts of scales. Male seahorses get pregnant, male penguins warm the egg, a praying mantis eats its mate after sex etc, etc. In the animal kingdom the only thing that is seen is a biological need for reproduction and by the same vein that’s also how Newt sees (or doesn’t see things). If a visually female person were to come up to him and say they were male he wouldn’t bat an eyelash and would respect that.

Newt doesn’t see behaviors as “male” or “female” and chooses to instead see the person or creature behind them. In an odd sense Newt is very non-judgemental and by that I mean because he’s an outsider he doesn’t see the world the same way others do. He judges by actions and behavior nothing more.

When it comes to his own identity it’s again kind of a non-matter. He identifies as male, but he’s also aware he has what others would call “feminine” or “maternal” qualities and it simply doesn’t bother him. They can think and say what they want and regardless of that he’ll never try to box himself or others he meets into those identities. A person simply is WHO they feel they are.