#I have a headcanon that Rosas is protected by magic so that you just straight up Can't Find It if you have bad intentions

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Some more Kali backstory

Kali lived on the street in a war-torn land for several years of their life. After a while they formed a group with a few other homeless people of all ages. One boy, who'd been a sailor once upon a time, would tell them stories of Rosas, a place where everyone is safe and happy, protected with magic by a great king who will grant your greatest wish.

Kali never believed him, they thought it was only a story he told to give the younger kids hope. They too loved to hear of it, but wrote it off as nothing but a fairytale. Something that wonderful could never truly exist.

Until they themself wound up at the shores of Rosas, and it was everything they'd dreamed and more, just as he'd described. This is why it takes them a while to be normal around Magnifico. They basically just Met God and need to reevaluate a lot of their beliefs before they can even remotely begin to function again. Give them a minute.

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More trans Raphael headcanons please🥺

anon, i hope you know that youre my favorite person on this website. i would bleed for you. i would die for you. but most importantly, i would live for you. i would work everyday to see joy in the world and make it a better place. for you. i owe you my life, which i feel begins only now, in this new breath that i take as i start typing this response

in no particular order:

one of the reasons him and rosa were so close is because she accepted him readily and wholeheartedly. like, they were already super close before (that’s partially why she didn’t give a straight fuck) but the way she just... accepted him so easily and stood by him really cemented how much he adores her

like, his family as a whole was pretty accepting (his mom didn’t move all the way to the US to try and start a new life for her kids just to kick one of them out. plus, in a latino neighborhood, there were probably a few travestis already, as well as trans people as a whole, cuz well, poor place. it also helped that they then had a “man in the house” since i hc it was just the 3 of them), but his mum was also catholic and had never heard of that before, so it took her a while to figure out how to handle that? but rosa was the one who was like, correcting everyone cheerfully when they got his pronouns wrong, making sure no one picked on him and stuff, you know?

she felt good about it too, because when they had moved she was the one who had trouble adjusting and he was the one protecting her, so she got to pay it back and :’) nice 

obviously there were no T shots easily available by that time, so he kind of just, improvised a binder, cut his hair short, and hoped for the best

rosa helped him take the “binder” off sometimes. she also made sure that she didn’t wear it too tight or for too long after they had a pretty big scare where it started constricting him in the middle of the street (went through that once! do not recommend!) 

after he became a vampire, when he used to go to the bleeder dens and stuff, he for a while tried to only drink blood from cis men to see if it would help him transition lmao

it doesn’t, and being a vampire also means that he can’t possibly get surgery (super healing) or T shots even if they were available, so that sucks and for a while after raphael turns he’s more dysphoric than ever

magnus “trans icon” bane helped him with that after he took raphael in too, because he had been perfecting ways to magically transition for years, and guess what! it works on vampires too because fuck you. and also even if it didn’t magnus would have probably tried to figure out a way that did anyway 

magnus also offers a glamor, but he foregoes it most of the time, specially after he starts to grow more muscle and stuff? also he feels more dysphoric about the way they look like, with the clothes than without haha me projecting never and now the binder can’t hurt him, so you know. whatever

the downworld is full of trans icons due to, you know, immortality meaning that there are people from several different backgrounds and societies and time periods that had nothing to do with the modern gender binary, and that slaps hard actually. it’s pretty much normal, specially among warlocks (which are most of his friends anyway, as he’s raised by magnus), and that makes him feel less and less dysphoric and more and more comfortable as time went by 

with that being said, camille is 100% a transphobic bitch because that’s how she rolls so’s lorenzo tbh lmaooo but she doesn’t come into the picture until later anyway

not to be a slut but like..... all of raphael’s partners are trans too....... saiaphaeliorn is the ULTIMATE trans power couple (quadrouple? anyway)

simon is one of the first people he meets after getting to the downworld who’s also a trans man (as most people are non-binary/have culturally specific genders) and it’s. really nice, actually 

also!!! i’ve talked before about my headcanon that magnus uses clothing as a form of protection and he teaches raphael the same, so like... magnus also teaching raphael how to use clothing that helps him be perceived as masculine.... teaching him how to spot a person’s reactions to his gender to protect himself from potentially transphobic violence....... just being the greatest trans dad

the result of transition he liked the most was his voice, by far. the muscles are a very great bonus even if he could do with getting a little taller but like... to this day he sometimes hears his own voice, realizes how deep and pretty it sounds, and gets a little overwhelmed by how happy he is

gender euphoria yall!!! gender euphoria!!

raphael seeing himself in the mirror when magnus gives him one of these expensive three-piece suits that he never even dreamt of being able to afford and being just. so excited he barely knows what to do with it

ooh that’s also one of the reason he wears vests so frequently? you know besides the whole Good Pressure thing, they help him seem more lean u kno

ok i think that’s all i have but if anyone else also has hcs or trans raphael thoughts as a whole please send them to me because aaaa i just love he