#Raphs not got any trans stuff on because he doesn’t need to explain who he is to anyone his family knows

[seagull-scribbles]

what if they where T4T?! What then?

[charmergirl2468]

Past Life AU! Part 3

Golden Deer

Claude

This boi is still biracial because screw you he’s a handsome poc

He will 100% start talking in Almyrian just to piss people off. Ex: “Claude, could pass me the paper?” “Repap? Taht s’tahw?” “Just get me the fucking paper, you dick!”

Grew up with a lot of kids going through Babies First Racism with him but he had Hilda so it’s all good

He’s actually really fucking good at chemistry and no one has any idea why. If you tried asking him, he’d just say it came naturally.

He set up a chemistry club but he just uses it as an excuse to hang out with his other deer friends.

Nobody says shit about it since A) Claude can actually do chemistry so the validity of the club can’t be questioned and B) there’s a 95% chance he’ll just mix together a stink bomb again if someone challenges him

He’ll try to play off getting back his memories as no big deal, but he’s internally freaking out about 15 times over and has no idea how to sceme his way out of this

Marianne

At school, she’s your average wall flower that nobody really knows. Except the other deer but other than that she’s a total mystery

… then she gets home and logs into COD and goes fucking apeshit.

She’s the Legend27 of this AU’s COD and she scares everyone online.

That’s because, as a way to cope with stress and anxiety, she goes feral on video games.

She still follows Sothism. Not in the incel way obviously, but to where it can help her in her weakest state.

She’s still contemplated suicide but she’s got a good support in addition to a therapist so while she still gets that though at her darkest , she’s able to handle it.

Marrie fucking breaks down after she get to the Crest of the Beast part of her memories. All those feelings of dejection and self loathing come back to her and she almost can’t handle it. Raph finds her in time though and help her

Raphael

Boy is a gym junkie. He goes whenever he has free time between going to school and working at a local cafe

He’ll enter competitions for weightlifting and stuff but his ultimate goal is to get on a Fodlan version of “American Ninja Worrior” and win

He is the big brother friend. Need a ride home cause you’re drunk? Fuck the car, he’ll carry you home like a sack of potatoes. Just because he’s a sweet boi does not mean he’s gentle XD

He’s honestly pretty chill about his past life. Sure seeing war in first person is scary, but it’s in the past so why worry about it?

Answer: you should worry about it when it full out causes your friend a severe panic attack

Hilda

Crouching moron, hidden badass. It’s hereditary at this point.

Anyone who tries to deride her for being girly or lazy, that mother fucker ends up flat on their back within a second. They have no idea what happened.

Shes been Claudes best friend since they were tator tots. Stuck by him for everything from bullying to boring parties

That’s not to say they won’t talk shit. Rather, they do nothing but talk shit about each other. It’s how they’re platonic affection manifested and they’re sticking to it!

She feels frustrated at her past self since with modern her it’s understandable to nope out of stuff. You can’t Nope out of a war!

Lysethia

Child prodigy. Full stop. She’s in college and she’s fucking fifteen

She goes through what all Gifted Kids go through and has issues with being social since she build her Identity around being a prodigy.

Claude treats her like a kid mostly because he knows how fucked up it is to loose your formative years to something so arbitrary. He just wants her to act her age and not worry about pleasing adults.

She low key was raised in Fodlan-Mormonism so that also helped fuck her up some. She got the hell out of there on her own when she put 2 and 2 together but she had to leave her siblings behind. She hopes they’re doing ok

Oh, she looses every last crumb of her shit when everything that Those Who Slither in the Dark did. to her past self. There’s tears and snot and anger and a whole flurry of emotions she can’t articulate because of previously mentioned Gifted Child Bullshit.

She first confides in Hilda about it and from there Hilda makes sure the babu has a good support system for dealing with that shit. No deer left behind! Not even our little Fawn

Ignatz

He’s in an animation school trying to get better at his craft.

He does DeviantArt commissions so he can pay for rent when he can. Plus he finds it to be good practice for a future career in animation

He dreams of open up his own independent animation studio and he’s a little over a fourth of the way there! He’s done freelance work animating and, as uncomfortable as it made him, got experience leading a team of animators on a project

He’s dream project, however, is being able to animate one of Bernie’s stories and have Ashe be the voice of a lead character. FuckyouIlovethebowbrigade

He gets a little fucked up over the flashbacks of war and death, mostly because he’s a gentle soul. But Big Bro Raph has him covered

Lorenz

Boy has a superiority complex the size of Fodlan itself.

He also tries to act like a noble man of yore but it’s more to cover up the fact his confidence is a fragile as tissue paper thin glass

He tries to hit on girls and acts like one of those “nice guys” a bit but Hilda’s got a good leash on him most of the time

He’s trying so hard to be an Instagram influencer but he’s as unpleasant online as he is offline so he doesn’t really have any followers outside of bots

His past life makes him really take a step back on his behavior and think “ok Sothis, I’m just a incel in a fancy hat!” And adjusts his personality away from that

Leonie

She’s… actually a very stuck in the closet trans man.

He doesn’t know despite a lot of signs like wanting to keep his hair short, wanting to be just like Jeralt, feeling way more comfortable in men’s clothes then women’s, getting little pockets of euphoria when someone uses male pronouns for him, etc. etc.

He does eventually become friends- er, acquaintances with Felix and that what it takes for him to put two and two together. After that, he started transistioning in every comfortable imaginable

His new name is Leo and everyone loves and supports him!

The memories of his past life gives him a bit of gender dysphoria, especially after the timeskip, but seeing as his ancestor was a badass with an Axe definitely feels validating

There’s the three main houses down! Other parts after this will be for the remaining characters and maybe a worldbuild post to explain this modern version of Fodlan

[spectrumscribe]

disclosure.

for @lgbtmntweek, some absolute nonsense about five queer gendered kids and one cis (but gay) kid having a full disclosure session to just avoid any over-dramatic revelations. literally nothing but nice things, for once in my writing career.

“Wait, wait wait wait wait,” Casey says, holding up both hands and stopping the entire conversation in its tracks. He looks at April, then at Raph and Donnie, and then back at April. Like he has for the last thirty seconds as all three of them awkwardly tried to explain the two brothers, before things ended up revealed in a less controlled situation.  

Casey points around April, towards Raph and Donnie. “April, these guys are the other trans kids you know? Seriously?”

“Gender dysphoria is, as it turns out, not limited to the human experience,” Donnie says in a dry, somewhat defensive tone.

“Is this going to be a problem?” Raph asks in a definitely defensive tone, poorly hidden by derisiveness. “Because that’ll be the shittiest hypocrisy I’ve heard all year. Even over Mikey’s rule about double-dipping in the chip sauce.”

“I’m the one who makes it for you ungrateful people, I can do what I want with it!” Mikey exclaims from his and Leo’s side of the couch. The joke almost lightens the mood, but doesn’t do anything from their subtle readiness to step in, in case this is going to be a problem.

Casey shakes his head, zero judgement in his expression. “Nope, no problem. Just a little surprised? I mean, you guys pass really well. I wouldn’t’ve guessed.”

Donnie and Raph exchange glances, and shrug. Very subtle relief passes between them as they do; mostly because they’ve all been skirting the Talk about this for a few weeks, despite knowing that the risk of rejection was very low concerning Casey.

“It’s not like we adhere to mammalian gender normative appearances anyway,” Donnie says factually. His word choices are still a bit lengthy; betraying his lingering anxiety about the situation. “Unless you’re someone who’s spent their life studying reptilian anatomy, I doubt anyone would guess in casual passing.”

“And passing is sort of the goal, so we wouldn’t want people to guess anyways,” Raph adds, feeling a little more relaxed than Donnie. Then, with a smirk, “And you don’t do so bad with passing yourself, Jones.”

Casey grins proudly. “Blockers and binders, since eleven. I’ve got it down pretty pat, and my mom did have a bit of stick figure. So lucky genetics and cool parents made it an okay transition, really. Plus my team was really supportive.”

“Sensei was really great about it, too,” Raph says, sharing an elbow nudge with Donnie. “He even read a bunch of articles and books about it when we got around to telling him.”

“He’s surprisingly very open minded for a traditional Japanese ninja,” Donnie says brightly.

April sighs a tad wistfully. “I wish my book club had been. And my old school.”

Casey puts an arm across her shoulders, ignoring the narrow look he gets from Donnie for the action. “Screw them, ours right now is kickass about this stuff. They got a gender neutral bathroom and everything.”

“Oh, really?” Leo asks with interest, glancing at Mikey. “Weren’t you talking about those the other day?”

“Yeah, and we should definitely get one,” Mikey says seriously. “Inclusivity is important.”

“Mikey… our bathroom is already gender neutral.”

“We need to make it official, though. With a sign.”

“I could make one,” Donnie suggests. “I have some scrap metal lying around.”

Mikey lights up, running off a collection of symbols he’s already memorized for the idea, and Leo rolls his eyes. There’s no real difference to him whether or not the sign is there, but if it makes Mikey, Raph, and Donnie happy, then why not?

April claps her hands abruptly. “Okay, so as great as all this trans male and gender-fluid solidarity is, if we could by chance find a trans girl in the future, I’d really appreciate the company, thanks.” Her words are a joke, but the sentiment is sincere.

“We’ll work on it,” Donnie says with a laugh, sneakily pinching Casey’s hand and forcing the other teen to remove it from April’s shoulder. He and Casey trade glares over April’s head, and she sighs under her breath, because teenage boys.

“Wait,” Casey says, breaking his staring contest with Donnie and backtracking mentally with the conversation. “Gender-fluid? Which one of you is that??”

“Me~!” Mikey says, all but singsong. Leo gestures vaguely at Mikey as well, fondly exasperated.

“Oh, should I have been using a different pronoun then?” Casey asks, sitting forwards and seeming a little concerned.

Mikey waves him off, smiling easily. “Nah, I’m good with pretty much anything under the sun. Gender’s just a social construct, after all. You just go with what feels right, and I feel a-okay with any gender.”

“I’m the boring cis sibling,” Leo offers dryly, not looking perturbed at all by that fact.

“And we love you anyways!” Mikey says, sliding over and giving Leo a one-sided hug. A bubble of laughter comes from Donnie and Raph at that, easy humor about a familiar and regular joke among their family.

Casey nods, sitting back against the couch again. As the conversation flows back to making a sign for the bathroom- “I think we’re gonna need MULTIPLE signs, since we got multiple genders around here!” “But can we please ask Sensei before we start drilling holes in the door? Please??”- April nudges Casey’s side and smiles at him.

“Told you they were cool,” She says, remembering when she and Casey had first started studying together- the two of them somewhat suspicious that they’d been matched up simply because of their identities. Even when she’d been furious with the brothers, she hadn’t been able to help herself mentioning the mutual support she’d found with them to Casey.

Casey grins, and looks utterly comfortable with their surrounding social group. “Sure did, Red. Shame I punched ‘em in the face first time we met, though.”

April grins back. “They got over it.”

Over her head, Donnie glares very clearly that he has not. Casey cheekily smiles back, very clear that he doesn’t actually regret anything.

Witness to both pointed gazes, Raph rolls his eyes at the ceiling the same time as April does.