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shitpostingfromthebarricade · 5 years ago

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hello hello!! i come with a question that i just want an answer for, i’m not trying to be rude or anything, i just need to see if there’s something off here. where did the idea that jehan was nb come from? or that jehan only went by they/them pronouns? genuinely curious on this one, cuz rn it just seems like people view jehan this way because they’re the most feminine member of les amis, and that’s....a lil gross.....

This is such a great question, and unfortunately it is not one that I have an answer to.

My personal guess would be that ey seem the least concerned with conforming to gender-based standards based on the description in the text, but in truth I mostly started doing it because I saw that it was already prevalent in the fandom when I joined (March 2018) and liked the headcanon and am nb myself. ^^;

The earliest mention I see of nb Jehan on AO3 dates back to June 2013--does anyone else have any light to shed on this topic?

#I agree that people should be able to exust however they want without society/the fandom forcing gender HCs upon them #but also the trans community is extremely diverse #especially where the nb community is involved because it is such a broad spectrum #I know that having a character like Jehan is what encouraged me to start thinking more critically about gender #and representation and writing and also myself and others #and now I'm p sure over half the characters I write are trans #so that representation does matter #but we definitely do get into dubious moral ground when we start examining the potential origins of this HC #but a lot of people also project #and that's where a lot of HCs are born too so #lots of things to think about here #answers and shitposts #jehan #canon jean #perfection with a skull collection #les mis #les amis #les mis fandom #meta

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