Round 114, Hour 6

[xandromedovna]

That's it for me, but there's plenty more Fic_Rush where that came from!

Comments

[alexseanchai]

No banana bread tonight 🙁 tomorrow probably?

also I need to sort out one character's gender and whether and to what extent his father accepts trans people before I continue, I think. it seems unfair, if the character is a trans guy (since the Miraculous Ladybug magical-girl transformation alters Miraculous wielders' bodies so as to eliminate dysphoria for the duration, I have decreed), to inflict heavy-duty magical sex change dysphoria on him and then have his partner gawk at him all holy shit bi awakening part two: caffeine rush. (she already knows she's bi, you see, it's just that she has been denying all attraction to him since ever.) if he's a cis guy, then I figure the shift in his body's center of gravity will be a bigger problem for him than anything else, and therefore her holy-shit moment about being attracted to him is entirely fair game. but in that case I want her to be trans, and for some reason I haven't worked out yet, I have a harder time writing her as trans than I do him. but if he's a cis guy, then it doesn't much matter whether his father is a transphobe, because that attitude won't have impacted him particularly. (and I refuse to write her parents as transphobes. not that there's any reason they should be in this story.) and if he's a trans guy, then his father's attitude will have determined whether his classmates assume he's a cis boy or a cis girl. (I can't picture his father letting him be out about being trans, but being accepting enough early enough to push the transition through, that's in the range of plausible.)

[xandromedovna]

hmm that definitely seems like a conundrum, I mean personally part of my transgenda is making cis boys think about their gender and it would seem to solve many of the unfortunate implications, but I get the feeling trans guy!character is important for other story reasons and if done correctly exploring the dysphoria of magic could be interesting. best of luck with the ruminating!