#izutsumi tbh. can i be a beast man

[shuckstruck]

i take no issue w being a girl or being she/her there’s nothing unique about my perception of gender but i DO take issue with being human... where are the claws. where are the TEETH

[dunmeshistash]

Are the terms beastkin and werebeasts synonymous? Or are they separate things

beastkin aparently counts for izutsumi and lycion (both are humans fused with monsters) but as far as I understand werebeast is the ones that can transform? I can't tell tbh I should check what are the actual words in japanese because I keep seeing different translations and I cant tell which one to use!

They're both classified as beast-man in their race info (beastkin is just another translation)

[enigmasong]

Honestly, the part I find most interesting about the Marcille succubus is less this part:

and more this part:

Like, yeah sure, that Succille went straight for the kisser before trying to hit the more complex desires shows that there is a lil' somethin' somethin' there - just letting you know the side I'm taking with that.

But that Laios can go straight for its throat with such unthinking brutality... that reveals more about him than either side of the succ-seduction does.

But what it reveals is, frankly, more questions for me. Like, this could be just me reading too much into things, but this comes across almost like Izutsumi being able to murk her succ due to the cat monster's protection.

Not that I'm saying I think that Laios is secretly, unknowingly a beast-man, but there seems like there's some instinct kicking in that's overriding the succ-suck vibes. More likely a trained instinct.

So, like, Laios' time in and after the army... I really do feel like there's something more there, I keep saying.

(also, tbh, I don't feel like the succs are naturally able to tap into more complicated wants and this one is only able to do so because of the Demon's influence)

[michinekot]

no bc the thing u mentioned in the tags of the dunmeshi post is so real bc like i personally hc kabru as trans bc i hit a lot of my fav boys w the tboy beam but the way fandom was like "oh i thought kabru was a woman so he MUST be a trans man" is so. so weird. like what did they mean by that. similarly i think izutsumis body dysmorphia can be read as tgirl dysphoria sometimes (ive read a lot of trans women who like izutsumi headcanon her that way with how she feels abt her body) but i also saw people he like "i thought izutsumi was a twink but i guess shes a (trans) woman" and its like !?!??!?! it feels so unnecessary to say. dunmeshi is a series w a lot of gnc characters and youd think fans would be able to be normal with trans headcanons but then suddenly theyre saying reductive shit because they perceived the characters gender wrong. sorry if this is incoherent i need fandoms to be normal w their trans hc and trans characters

Putting anon here because Vivi got this better than I could. it's not incoherent so dw!!! ty for the ask :) However! I do want to add my two cents:

The butch Kabru to tboy Kabru headcanons also piss me off because it just gives me "He's not a butch but if I make him trans I can still give him a pussy and let him get topped by Laios" vibes. Which I know isn't true in a lot of cases, go off and ship and have hcs that you love, but this is blatant transphobia. I want people to at least acknowledge that their first thoughts about him ARE/were transphobic. There's a fuckton of folks who feminize transmen, and as the post said too, those who feminize asian men- and Kabru unfortunately falls into both. ALSO I GETCHU WITH IZUTSUMI TOO!!! I hate it SO much when I see people disappointed to find out a gnc character is a girl and not a cute twink. It's even worse when they turn to trans hcs. Like fuck off, you might as well just say you'll never see them as the gender they Are.

And let me get to a very personal part, so excuse me for being stupidly angry about this: I rly dislike tboy bottom Kabru, which... is unfortunately loved by most of the english speaking fandom. First off, I don't think it fits his personality !!! He WILL top anyone, or at the very least switch cuz I feel like he's the type to want to please someone more than himself. And watch their reactions. I just wish people who hc him as trans would let him top... but no, cuz transboys can't top apparently, lmfao. Not to mention- it's a fantasy world, so hell, he could most-likely get bottom and/or top surgery. If people can turn into beasts then I'm sure they could get a dick through magic too lmao

I don't need anyone to agree on the last part tbh, but the rest sticks imo. Like Vivi said, it's infuriating that when we Do get gnc characters, people just can't be normal about them at all.