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Spoiler alert. Stay with me here. Part 1)After the child is born, we never heard anyone say what gender the baby is in any sort of authoritive capacity. Vidal is so obviously obsessed with having an heir that he won't entertain the notion of the child being a girl (The "Don't fuck with me" scene). We never saw Ofelia check, and if the baby never left Vidal's room after the birth, we might assume that Ofelia took Vidal's assertion at face value. The only discrepensy is that at the end (and possibly once or twice earlier), Mercedes gives her memorable line in which she calls the baby "he". This could be explained away by saying that Mercedes merely wanted to be pithy, not explain that the child is a girl to the deluded man.

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  • Spoiler alert. Stay with me here. Part 1)After the child is born, we never heard anyone say what gender the baby is in any sort of authoritive capacity. Vidal is so obviously obsessed with having an heir that he won't entertain the notion of the child being a girl (The "Don't fuck with me" scene). We never saw Ofelia check, and if the baby never left Vidal's room after the birth, we might assume that Ofelia took Vidal's assertion at face value. The only discrepensy is that at the end (and possibly once or twice earlier), Mercedes gives her memorable line in which she calls the baby "he". This could be explained away by saying that Mercedes merely wanted to be pithy, not explain that the child is a girl to the deluded man.
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  • Spoiler alert. Stay with me here. Part 1)After the child is born, we never heard anyone say what gender the baby is in any sort of authoritive capacity. Vidal is so obviously obsessed with having an heir that he won't entertain the notion of the child being a girl (The "Don't fuck with me" scene). We never saw Ofelia check, and if the baby never left Vidal's room after the birth, we might assume that Ofelia took Vidal's assertion at face value. The only discrepensy is that at the end (and possibly once or twice earlier), Mercedes gives her memorable line in which she calls the baby "he". This could be explained away by saying that Mercedes merely wanted to be pithy, not explain that the child is a girl to the deluded man. Part 2) The ending scene, as someone may have remarked below, smacks of duplicity on the part of the Faun. The theory: The Faun wanted Ofelia's blood to open the portal, through which he would take the Princess. He couldn't very well prick/stab/bleed Ofelia with the baby in her arms, and there is no way that Ofelia would set the child down, so the Faun wanted to grab the Princess, prick/stab/bleed Ofelia, and then leave her. This, of course, indicates that the last scene in the Fae-world is a hallucination or Imagine Spot of Ofelia's. It's in a distinctly different color tone than the other fey places; even the Pale Man's lair is a darker, burnished bronze than the finale's gleaming gold. * Intersting, but how does this explain Ofelia's moon-shaped birth mark? Was it just a hallucination?
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