#honestly if rick did have a trans daughter of aphrodite he would have her receive a permanent blessing that does exactly what i described

[theburningsunset]

ok ok while we're here, what if piper was a trans girl? so piper never felt comfortable in her skin while performing feminity. she dresses pretty plainly and wears as much or as little makeup as she pleases. what if this means she doesn't especially pass, and ppl are always telling her if she put a little effort into how she looks she would totally "look like a real woman". then bam, upon being claimed, the blessing of aphrodite gives her an unwanted makeover. she's now the picture of feminity, of beauty, only failing to nail the beauty standard of white, cishet, thin, able-bodied women at the "white" part. now she passes flawlessly, effortlessly. the looks, whispers and thinly veiled comments about her gender stop. and that should be great, right? it really ought to be, she thinks, but it feels so wrong. she, feels wrong. her skin crawls in about the same way it did before she started transitioning. she worries that jason will be more attracted to her this way, that he'd prefer her cis. once it wears off, would he even still want her? and then after the quest, once it does wear off, it's bittersweet. she's glad to be back to herself, feeling comfortable, but she can't deny the mindfuck that is seeing what cis piper looked like and now it was permanently out of reach. and the brainworm in the back of her head whispers that aphrodite herself looked at her and found her lacking, that the mother she never knew was now someone who, on some level, did not accept her.