So you have this bloke that wants to present as male being forced to live as a woman because of the superstitions of this patriarchal authority, gaining control of his own life again and choosing to lives as a man.
That was basically my read of it as well, however there's one problem. By the time you meet Gwyndolin in Dark Souls, Gwyn has been 'dead' for long enough that the world ended a long time ago. The rest of the gods fucked off to a different continent. Gwyndolin is here completely alone, except for a couple of worshipers. Gwyndolin is the god left. The only one.
So why's he still girl mode if that's not the way he wants to live?
That was basically my read of it as well, however there's one problem. By the time you meet Gwyndolin in Dark Souls, Gwyn has been 'dead' for long enough that the world ended a long time ago. The rest of the gods fucked off to a different continent. Gwyndolin is here completely alone, except for a couple of worshipers. Gwyndolin is the god left. The only one.
So why's he still girl mode if that's not the way he wants to live?
For the same reason it took me until I was 30 to come out as trans.
He internalized what he was told about his nature
Then why isn't he Lady Gwyndolin?
Dunno,
Could always be "time is convoluted" shenanigans.
Or, like, he's still processing his grief over what happened to Gwyn.
Or, any of a sundry of other reasons that I'm not sufficiently versed in Dark Souls lore to know about.