Apparently Dickens eating people is frowned upon. Even if they are mindless experimental monsters who have long since been dead. I don't think Ded knows how a giant tentacle monster works.

If he can't eat he gets hungry. And when he's not eating he's. Well I think you get the idea... Jokes aside Dickens doesn't have a gender. They're like Earthworms. Able to mate with any members of their species. They're also not sexually active. They go for what did I say. I'm sure i wrote it down somewhere but I could have sworn I said they mate every couple hundred years or so.