Random questions about Liveships (spoilers Farseer, LST and TM)

[Omie]

For example: what if a female cocoon were carved into a male figurehead?

'I was to be the most beautiful queen of all the land, sea and skies and you've gone and given me a beard like a thicket!'

Actually, I suspect all humans look the same to dragons, male or female. So the awakened serpents in the liveships probably wouldn't give a toss. Perhaps, also, the voice of the liveship as well as some of the personality comes partly from the expectations of the human owners. So female looking liveships would always become 'female' and male ones 'male', despite technically being neither any more.

Hmm, I'm answering my own questions.