#and hey. butch kelsey mention heh

[peachyvillian]

thoughts on transfem francis ? she is literally so near and dear to my heart

so true!!!

i love transfem francis so much and is actually one of my fav hcs too like UGH. i just find it so silly that francis’s first thought when going into kelsey’s house is “mm….. They wont know its me if i dress like a GIRL!!! 😛” LIKE YES. I UNDERSTAND .

i also really like the idea of aside from francis seeing carly as a crush there’s also this partial part of her that really just admires carly’s femininity and the way she expresses it?? i feel like francis wouldn’t see it that way at first either (just as she was totally normal about frankenstein and reading it with his teacher) and just assume its average crush things!! like wow her hair is so pretty and how long her eyelashes are and oh man that dress seems so nice …. i Wonder how itd look on me

and like i feel it might make her really just. confused?? because she wants to see herself as this strong ‘man’ who can defeat shane and make ladies swoon, but also theres this calling to the little things like a nice red lipstick, or her hair growing a little bit longer than she usually lets it, or the slight envy when she sees a pretty girl. and it really makes her nervous. like she has to choose and it might take a while for her to realize she doesn’t really. have to do that!

because she tags along with kelsey and trudy during when they were a trio and there are these moments that shine a light on so many different parts of these women that she looks up to! like trudy trying to find her standing in a home so harshly dominated by tucker (FUCK HIM) and kelsey’s strength especially when she’d been boxing. and it sort of clicks something in her brain. because she also doesn’t have to be boxed in this category just as every other woman ever doesn’t have to stay in a box society has created for her.

bc like part of her didn’t want another thing someone would actively bully her for or tease her about and so there were justifications and denial of a lot of what she was feeling and especially with just. the rigid views of gender and homosexuality back then, it really rubbed off on her. but sort of seeing and admiring the different ways that kelsey and trudy express themselves and not having to just be how people want to view them really just strikes a chord with her bc she can be strong (and shoot shane in the leg) and also enjoy wearing heels! thats fine!

MAYBE THAT DIDNT MAKE SENSE BUT LIKE. i dont know i think that francis’s slow understanding on her identity would really fix me. i think if will campos let anthony burch put francis in one of kelsey’s dresses it would fix around 50% of her problems maybe. idk i think francis has a very complicated relationship with her identity esp in that era but hey. she has a robot mother and a eldritch possessed schoolmarm. and bb too i guess/t i think she’ll have their support