#said with all the love in my heart kal's very important to me. no op no hrt no particular desire to perform gender because

[kantraels]

i think the various gender awakenings here are really funny

kal, pulling a fish out of an algae-caked trough with his bare hands, parting the murky green for long enough to see his own face outgrowing the gawkiness of early adolescence into something that might be recognized as feminine, without the dirt: i think i'm a man

kenna, after weeks of torture and delusion, retreating into safe and comfortable introspection and dreamlike fearless repose: i think i might be nonbinary

isi, fifteen years old and beating the shit out of some guy in a hive for stealing his lunch: i could do this forever. also this face i'm deconstructing looks like what i wish i looked like. i think i'm a man.