#trans!azriel

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

I need to yap about a different fandom for a sec so bear with me. Azriel is so incredibly trans coded it’s canonically defensible and I would scream and shout and kick my feeties to see it confirmed.

If I may, your honor:

IF Azriel were born a girl, his brothers certainly would not have let him fly.

You know who would change his name to a swaggy biblical angel? Probably a trans man.

Feyre said he was prettier than Rhysand.

Certainly all of us would like to read a Mulan type book where he runs away and trains in the camp in disguise. 👀

Cassian wrestles the shit out of him until he makes a realization.

And proceeds to tell him a story specifically about some queer lady angels?? Surely now you see it.

Which is also the story he shares with Feyre when it’s specifically important to him to teach her to fly.

The cauldron doesn’t pair him with Elain. Possibly because they can’t have children?

Again, little Az trying to protect his secret so badly but equally wanting to prove himself and then Cassian finding out and him tearing up and being like “but I just wanted to you to see me as your brother.” And Cassian being like o_________o “but I do??”

Who can draw? Surely SOMEBODY wants to draw it.

Az relearning to fly after top surgery

Awkwardly rubbing his neck and asking Rhysand for clothes to borrow to wear to the night court and Rhysand takes him shopping.

Rhysand was a derpishly nice and friendly child and didn’t understand why Azriel didn’t like him. Rhysand was all the things he never thought he could be and it hurt to have his friendship imposed upon him.

Thematically this works well with the rest of the group. Most of them have reinvented themselves or popped outta the cauldron different.

It’s also very important to me that he have a little gold septum piercing. I think it would look good on him 🤷

[punkeropercyjackson]

Fancasts for Red Hood and The Outlaws but it's mine and my girlfriend and friends' because the og was absolute ass

Ft.Tam who i've decided is an honorary member because @insomniac-jay added her to one of my other posts!!In order:Jason,Summer,Eddie,Rose,Pepper,Thad,Kahalo,Duke,Imani and Kyle!Rest in the notes due to the image limit so if you rb this,do it with that one or else i'll block you! /srs

[throttledneck]

azriel is trans btw <3

[thecustomcosplayed]

ough. the gender euphoria i get at adults calling me by my (chosen) name.. OUGH. that hits me right in the heart /pos

[pearblossommina]

A luc/az story you say? 👀

Yeah! The doc has 525 words and three entire paragraphs about how Lucien should be trans.

(Functioning off the theory that Mor is Azriel’s mate)(which is why Lucien would be a good person for him to kiss! He knows what it feels like!)

“Lucien and Az are both lonely boys rejected by their mates.”

When the fox first came to their court, Azriel noticed his unique scent. And he was captivated by his whirling, mechanical eye. He hated the Vanserra family with his whole heart - but this one had been cast out to make his own way in the world. Maybe he didn’t deserve his ire. He couldn’t blame him for being wary. The Night Court had a rutheless and cruel reputation, and Lucien was the exact kind of priveleged, high fae, high born, handsome prick that they wanted to keep out. Lucien was the very definition of high fae, high born, handsome. Yet it didn’t stop him from being rejected by his family. Rejected by his mate. Rejected by the only place he had ever known as a home. Azriel didn’t want to stick his nose in where it wasn’t his business. But he felt a strange compelling force drawing him to the fox.

When he took off his shirt, he saw the twin crescent shaped scars on his chest. Azriel wanted to let his fingers trace across them. 

“Where did you get this done?”

“Dawn Court.” said Lucien. “The same healer there who helped me with my eye, she gave me my surgery. Honestly, if Tamlin hadn’t taken me in, I would probably be serving Thesan to this day. His court is very welcoming of people like me.”

“You never dreamed you would set foot in the Night Court.”

“I’d have done anything to get my mate back.”

“Elain doesn’t want that from you.”

“I suppose she doesn’t.”

“I’m sorry,” said Azriel.

“Don’t be. It’s not your fault.”

Azriel kept his mouth shut. It wasn’t true that it wasn’t his fault Elain had rejected Lucien. He couldn’t know her true reasons, but he couldn’t deny that he imagined his draw to Elain was at least part of the reason.

[talons-and-teeth]

its canon sorry!

I have a lil headcanon that Azriel’s first crush was on a trans woman and while things never worked out between them, he still talks to her frequently and asks for life and dating advice from her because she’s one of the wisest and most patient people he knows. He’s a ride or die for this woman and she for him 🥺✌🏽

TRANS ALLY AZRIEL LIVES

[clowncaraz]

transandrophobia draws blood.

Azriel Pierce is a afro-latino transmascfem kafin who goes by they/them. Kafin is a gender label that does not fit into the binary, nonbinary, abinary or others and therefore can only be described by one’s self or personality.

the label of transandrophobia.

transandrophobia, the result of trans + androphobia, is broadly known as the fear of masculinity and manhood present in genderqueer people (masculine nbys, masculine intersex people, butches/studs/dykes/masculine women, trans men, transmascs). it was first described by a trans man of color named Saint in 2017.

i tend to include masc women/butches/dykes/studs in this because transandrophobia is known to not be used as an opposite to transmisogyny or a gender specific term for just men. it is quite literally a form of oppression against masculinity and manhood that is not cis, het or non-queer, and inherently includes masculine women because TERFism often uses radical feminism to attack queerness— often denying masc women their womanhood and trying to separate it from their identity and presentation to imply they’re “secretly men”.

we have now established that these identities are inherently affected by transandrophobia:

masculine nbys

masculine women

butches/studs/dykes

transmascs

trans men

masculine intersex people

so transandrophobia can be experienced based on the culutral views of masculinity or suppression of trans manhood for the recreation of cis womanhood in men. this can include corrective rape and sexual assault, transandrophobic medical abuse and mistreatment of transmasc bodies, the refusal to provide life-saving testosterone when eligible, social settings being hostile to queermasculine people, butches of any kind being refused lesbianism or harassment in bathrooms for appearance, and so on.

this statistic from The Trevor Project’s 2023 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ Young People, revealing that transmascs/trans men and nonbinary people (followed by those gender questioning) are more likely to suffer from forced sexual contact.

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/research-briefs/sexual-violence-and-suicide-risk-among-lgbtq-young-people/

what comprises transandrophobia is androphobia and sexism.

all these people will experience sexism in unique ways that cannot be called transmisogyny due to the nature of attacking their masculinity first and foremost, then their assigned sex next. when said masculinity is attacked, TERFs will use that to deny them the right to it on the basis of their sex traits. an intersex man can’t be a man because they happen to have a body that is not perisex, therefore, the limits to their manhood is applied by reducing them to an object or a “disorder”. alongside intersexism, that is transandrophobia.

androphobia is the fear of manhood and the patriarchy, and when transmasculine individuals experience this, it becomes the fear of queerness that develops into “freeform masculinity”, bridging away from the commonly seen toxic and patriarchal masculinity and into it’s own category — something of a “cenntriarchal” form (cenn- from “cennend”, meaning parent).

the cenntriarchy does not refer to a specific gender or group as the head of a family, nor does it imply that those in the authority are all of one gender. instead, it is used to describe when those of any authority are of any gender and therefore would create societies that are diverse enough to allow men, women, nbys, thirds, and others to be centered at the foundation rather than behind women/men. this would challenge the ideas of what masculinity, femininity, and androgyny are supposed to look like or how they act in society because it features different cultures and religions.there is the belief that trans men and transmascs have the ability to uphold patriarchal forms of masculinity the moment they are men, which is a false statement created to “pin the patriarchy on the mule”. in this world, a hybrid is not considered to be as good as a horse — even if that horse is not purebred. cis masculinity will always be more valuable than trans masculinity and trans men cannot benefit from a concept that believes them to only be their sex traits and never their self. there is only one way masculinity can survive in queer spaces without the dominance of manhood, and that is the cenntriarchy allowing the possibility for everyone to contribute as the authority over their own rights regardless of gender.

standing by transmasculinity.

a common pushback against transandrophobia seems to be the idea that trans men are just transitioning towards cis manhood, as if they’re not men yet. they aren’t women, but they aren’t men either, so they stay in the gray zone of being defined by their agab or their sex traits.

the isolation of manhood from transness is a tactic used to correctly gender trans men without having to acknowledge their gender as being related to trans manhood, even if that fear is towards those who uphold the patriarchy — which trans men, by identity, do not fit in the patriarchy. when trans men and cis men are perceived as the same type of manhood, the assumption becomes that trans men are of the patriarchal system instead of being completely outside of it.

Saint has stated that “transandrophobia is the way that the fear of men impacts the material reality and mental/physical health of transgender men.” he has said that transandrophobia is not simply when a transmasculine person experiences misogyny or sexism, given that everyone experiences it, but that it is when the queermasculine identity is faced with trouble, hardship, oppression, or hatred because of said relation of manhood.

to put it simply, the irrational fear and subsequent hatred of transmasculinity and trans manhood. that is a broad definition of transandrophobia amongst all others.no one hates cis men for being men, it is hate of their ability to use their cis status and patriarchal power. cis manhood is preferred, actually, it is widely accepted, it is “natural”.. trans men on the other hand don’t have those privleges, and are hated for being failed cis men and confused women, who are then hated for being related to cis men by being men incorrectly.

even being in proximity to transmasculinity has comments like “kill all men”, and “why would you want to be a man?” thrown your way or in the direction you walk towards.

those who are interested in separating the transmasc community into halves of cliques and discrediting POC in the creation of transandrophobia terminology and discussion will also forget that many of the ones speaking about transmasc oppression are of color. they whitewash our terms, then our community.

https://www.tumblr.com/killjoycatlady/726305694582751232/doberbutts-is-a-black-trans-man-who-has-spoken?source=share

most known critics of transandrophobia are the most exclusionary radical-leaning trans queers who have fallen to TIRFism and Baeddelism.

those who engage in Baeddelism/TIRFism also have a habit of ignoring transmasc struggles, or claiming that our invisibility is easier to handle. this is not the case, given that transmascs have the highest suicide rates since last year.

to me, Baeddelism/TIRFism isn’t protecting trans women, trans men, nonbinary, and other queers from harm but actively allowing it to fester through discourse and strife. there is no protection for us and there is no language for us to use in order to convey our pain that isn’t refused or called a “copy” of transmisogyny to indicate that men are oppressed.

the denial of transandrophobia does not directly cause these deaths, this suffering, but it restricts the way we can communicate how transmascs are dealing with this pain of being left out of our own communities, our identities, our literature, our ability to be seen.

we do not want hypervisibility, we want help surviving.

[ladydeath-vanserra]

anyways in honor of pride month

Nesta is aroace

Amren is aroace and trans

Elain is an ace lesbian and trans [she/they]

Cassian, Azriel, Lucien and Rhysand are all bi kings

Mor is a lesbian romantic bisexual (literally canon too so)

Tamlin is pansexual

Feyre is a lesbian

Eris is trans and pansexual

Emerie is a lesbian

Gwyn is demisexual and trans [she/they]

also Azriel is trans too ok thanks

Canon isn't real. it's all fake and wrong and I make all the rules

edit: Eris and Tamlin are pan ok NOW thanks

[prettypinkkat]

A list of everyone's gender and sexuality I'm my au of actoar.

Enjoy

Tamlin: trans man , he/him , pansexual

Rhysand: cis male , he/him , pansexual

Lucien: non-binary, they/them , pansexual

Feyre: non-binary, she/her , pansexual

Azriel: genderfluid, she/her , he/him , pansexual

Mor: cis female , she/her/hers , pansexual

Cassian: male , they/them. He/him , pansexual

Nesta: cis woman , she/her/hers , pansexual

Amren: ???? , whatever, pansexual

Elaine: questioning, she/her , pansexual

Eris: non-binary, he/him , pansexual

[bitteur]

*     ◟    :    〔   archie renaux  ,      trans man    +   he/him    〕      AZRIEL    WREN ,      some say you’re a    TWENTY-SIX  lost soul among the neon lights.      known for being both  STEADFAST  and  RECKLESS,  one can’t help but think of  KILL V. MAIM   by   GRIMES  when you walk by.    are you still a    DEVIL ROLE   /     REPLICANT   at    SNAKE DEN   /   STONEAGE   INDUSTRIES,     even with your reputation as the  KING   SLAYER?     i think we’ll be seeing more of you and    A DREAM OF MASSACRES    ;   GARDEN OF BLACK AND RED AGONIES CASCADED UPON BY A DYING STAR   -    MADNESS WAS ALWAYS FATED TO BECOME YOU   ;   MOON-DRUNK   &   HAUNTED   &   PIERCED SOUL,   A HEAD THAT IS BLOODIED YET UNBOWED   ;   FURIOUSLY TEMPT ME WITH THE ACHING RELEASE OF DEATH,   YOU BECKON   -   AND YET,   NO ONE HAS DARED TO ANSWER,   DUPLICANT WEANED ON POISON FINDING HOME IN THE PROFANE    ;    YOU SUBMIT TO THE WOLVES AND FEED THEM YOUR HEART   -   A REBIRTH CARVED FROM BLOOD AND BONE,    although we can’t help but think of DAEMON   TARGARYEN   (   HOUSE   OF   THE   DRAGON   ),   JINX   (   ARCANE   ),   WADE   WILSON    (    MARVEL   COMICS   )    whenever we see you down these rainy streets.  TW : abuse, human experimentation

FULL   NAME.   azriel   cael   wren. GENDER.   transman. PRONOUNS.   he/him/his. NATIONALITY.   american. AGE   +   D.O.B.   twenty6  +   september   6th,   unknown. LABEL.   the   king   slayer. OCCUPATION.    devil   of   the   snake   den   /   replicant of stoneage industries / a   study   in just when you thought you hit rock bottom ... you want to fuck a blonde guy !

HEIGHT.    185   cms,   6’1. WEIGHT.     87 kgs  ,  191 pounds HAIR   COLOR.       light blonde   ;   pales under the moonlight,   slivers of platinum weaved in between   -   never forgets his bleach + tone. EYE   COLOR.   dark brown   -   almost black  ;   full of untold secrets you’d rather not know if you want to maintain your sanity. SKIN   TONE.     sun-kissed   ;   a reminder that he would always rather be outside than locked in ... trauma womp womp. ORIENTATION.       bisexual,   demiromantic. TATTOOS.    left arm   ,    right arm   ,   back   ,   legs. PIERCINGS.     eyebrow  (   right   ),   lip ring   (   left   )   +   tongue. RELIGION.       supposedly   still a hindu ( a lie, shocker ). BUILD.       mesomorph,   ironically-enough   has great posture. SCENT.       immortelle + palm tree + bergamot  + amber   :   summer stretched across unforgiving sandstorms SKARS.       top   surgery scar, a diagonal cut starting from his left forehead -  cutting straight through his eyebrow ... across his cheek   (   never truly healed   )   +   never-ending array of cuts &&. bruises . LANGUAGES.       native   english,   fluent   in   hindi. EDUCATION.       no   known   formal   education. ALIGNMENT.       chaotic   evil. MENTAL DISABILITIES. c-ptsd &&. borderline personality disorder ( impulsive ) - high ; both undiagnosed VOICE.       low,  scratchy + words often drawled out as if he's eternally mocking every word you say. DRESSING.    what do you get when you cross an e-boy with someone who really needs to wash the blood stains off his docs ?

you   don't   remember   much   of   where,       how,       let   alone   why   you   were   born       ….    rather,       made.       earliest   waking   memory   consisted   off   making   out   a   few   words   that   had   been   uttered   to   you   so   many   times.       other   duplicants   got   lullabies   and   bedtime   stories,       you   got.    “       the   failed   pet   project,       worst   thing   to   come   out   of   stoneage,        waste   of   resources,       and   a   complete       +     utter   lost   cause,       ”.       the   earliest   waking   moment   of   your   life   confined   in   off-white   walls   where   the   air-conditioned   constraints   felt   like   it   would   never   end.       all   you   wanted   to   do   was   to   feel   the   sun   on   your   skin       -       bird   bones   and   alabaster   flesh   weren’t   meant   to   thrive   under   the   lights   of   operation   rooms   and   labs.       you   were   supposed   to   be   an   imitation   of   the   closest   thing   to   a   human   computer,       and   stealth   assassin       …       a   supposed       ‘       perfected   concotion   of   brawns   and   brains       '       manufactured   for   greatness   in   a   world   of   unbridled   chaos.       the   one   who   could   topple   world   governments,       and   whatever   comes   after.       the   one   who   could   bring   forth   a   new   world   order.       project   status       ?       well       …

desperation   came   quick   as   the   winters   grew   harsher,       and   colder.       synapse   triggers   became   electric   shocks   up   the   spine,       and   your   brain   toyed   upon   by   one   curious   mind   after   the   other    -       you   were   a   puzzle   that   must   be   solved,       and   perfected.       yes,       your   intellect   shown   through,       and   yet       …       there   was   a   brazenness   within   you   that   wasn't   anticipated.       you   bit   as   hard   as   you   barked,       and   evaded   authority   every   chance   you   yet.       your   brain   ran   faster   than   any   manufactured   intellegence,       but   your   brain   was   fractured       -       nightmares   blur   into   reality,       and   you   couldn't   tell   facts   from   fabrications   of   your   own   tortured   mind.       they   ran   every   test   through   your   body   up   to   the   limits   of   mortality,        and,       one   faithful   day,       it   was   as   if   your   mind   was   triggered   into   survival   mode.       a   massacre.      you   didn't   remember   much   of   that   day,       but   you   know   this   much    ….    you’ve   unlocked   pandora’s   box.       twelve   dead   men   lie   beneath   your   feet   just   from   your   hands,       hands   eternally   tainted   in   prophecised   viscera.       you   finally   came   into   your   own    :       you   finally   became   who   you   were   supposed   to   be.       humanity   at   the   expense   of   greatness       -       a   man-made   monster   frankensteined   for   the   penultimate   of   all   things   chaos.

you   found   your   true   home   amongst   the   ranks   of   the   snake   den       :       where   you   embody   the   balance   between   mortality       +       immortality,       greatness       +       madness,       heaven       +       hell.       the   devil   was   once   an   angel,       too,       and   you   were   once   just   a   boy       …       until   they   created   something,       someone,        greater   than   intended       ….    one   who   couldn't   be   leashed,       and   spat   back   any   attempts   of   control.       while   you   may   not   sound   like   the   brightest,       utterences   riddled   in   curses,       and   drawled   syllables       ….    your   brilliance   in   destruction   breeds   revolution,       and   who   doesn't   love   a   little   anarchy       ?       heavy   the   head   that   wears   the   crown   of   thorns,       and   you   followed   the   faith   of   all   of   god's   most   disgraced       -       you   fall,       tattered   wings   encasing   your   frame   as   you   become   one   with   your   true   faith.       hell's   gates   open   as   they   welcom   you       :       welcome   home,       lucifer. 

[that-satireguy]

Hello. Due to a lot of recent cofusion. I have decided I need an introductory post, so here I am. Hope this will clear things up.

I am Azriel, 17 years old. I am a trans guy, and use he/him only. Yes my name is based on ACOTAR, no I haven't actually read it.

I was born and raised in an extremely abusive christo-muslim offshoot cult. I was removed from this situation at 14, and have been in a stable foster home since 16.

This is already too much information, so i will not be disclosing much else.

This was originally a side/vent blog, but now its mostly about transandrophobia and politics. Some of my content may be triggering, so warning for child abuse ig.

[punkeropercyjackson]

Red Hood and The Outlaws rewrite

The original post of this didn't show up in the tags but that turned out to be lucky for me as two major changes happened in mine @insomniac-jay @mayameanderings @refrigeratedboombursts @theautisticcentre @moonage-gaydream and Amrit's(sadly no longer on tumblr but still on discord)Rhato fixit we made because we love Jason and he deserves better!!Cw for super long and heavy post

It starts in 2010 and ends in 2020,runs for 120 issues and happens in-universe over 3 years

The lineup is in order of joining:Jason Todd(Red Hood and briefly a Star Sapphire),Eddie Bloomberg(Red Devil),Rose Wilson(Ravager and later Willow),Summer Kent(Ignite and briefly a Black Lantern),Thaddeus Thawne(Inertia),Pepper Jackson(Star Sapphire),Raveena 'Raven' Rothra(Blackbird),Duke Thomas(Robin),Kahali Roy(Blood Maker),Imani Javiera(Pantheress),Kyle Rayner(Green Lantern and later White Lantern),Artemis Grace(Artemis of Bana-Mighdall),Venus Parks(Star Sapphire),Mathew Kent(Superguy and briefly a Green Lanterm),Daisy Hilliard and Lilith Morningstar(Paradisia and Hex),Jennifer Williams(Batika)and Azriel Morningstar(Ghoul)

Jason,Eddie and Rose are the 'Original Outlaws Trinity' and them and Summer are the 'Dark Core Four'.Jason is the founder and leader and Summer his right hand man who takes over when he can't

Almost all of them are trans and audhd with Mathew as the token cis and Pepper as the token allistic.Jason is monoracial afro-dominican,Rose and Artemis are brownskin and browneyed,Summer is a half white afro-dominicana/afro-mejicana,Thaddeus is black/white mixed because Candice Patton is the only Iris West,Kahali and Raven are indian(tamil and sindi-bengali respectively),Imani is afro-puerto rican and Venus,Daisy,Jennifer and Lilith and Azriel are black.Jason,Summer,Pepper,Imani and Lilith are also fat and Jaysumm is tank4tank

Sometimes a found family can be 18 crazy ass vigilantes some of who weren't even vigilantes at first

The series is very goofy and silly often and in it's fundamental spirit but equally dark and layered in the same sense and is heavy on gags,jokes,violence and social talk.Putting the radicalism and intersectionalism back in comics

The canon couples are Jason/Summer,Eddie/Lilith,Rose/Pepper,Thad/Azriel,Duke/Luna Vásquez,Kahali/Tim Drake,Imani/Vicia López,Kyle/Venus,Artemis/Daisy and Mathew/Jennifer and Raven is aroace.The other adult Outlaws view eachother with very strong platonic love that can be taken as polyamorous love except Summer and Imani who are sisterly and Jason and Raven who are queerplatonic partners and the Kid Outlaws are seen as younger siblings by them with Thad also being considered their adoptive son-By Summer especially and he straight up views him as his mom

Jason is goth punk,Eddie is a metalhead,Rose is goth butch,Summer is pastel punk,Thad is skapunk,Pepper is y2k,Raven is pastel goth,Duke is a solarpunk fashionista,Kahali is whimsigoth,Imani is Aliyahcore,Kyle is losercore-i mean distinct,Artemis is a jock,Venus is ghetto fabulous,Mathew is weirdcore,Daisy is a softgirl,Lilith is scenemo,Jennifer is a prep and Azriel is kidcore

Summer is the Team Mom and Jason is the Team Dad and they're nicknamed 'Supermom and Dadhood' as a teasing joke that they only embrace post getting together(And yet somehow this dosen't stop Jason from saying Summer is a milf with complete honesty and zero hesitation).Raven is the boba aunt

Their base is called The Fortress-named by Summer obviously-and it's an old abandoned huge residence that they started living in after exorsicing it due to investigation leading them there and the moving in decision was made because the beings in it agreed to bless it with eternal running water and electricity as a thank you for helping them move onto the afterlife at last.Everyone has their own room with their own tricked out aesthetic but it's common for them to share their beds and Imani refuses to actually sleep alone,not that any of them mind after a while despite her unconventional sleeping habits

Small note:Kyle is in the same age group as Jason but because i feel he's even more interesting if he starts out being a power ring holder as a teenager and it adds extra tragedy and opportunities to his plots.And they don't actually meet until adulthood-Their mutual connection is Kyle and Summer having been a thing for a short time when they were both teens and Jason being Summer's childhood best friend since they were 11.This notion also applies to Artemis,she gets introduced as a teen hero too instead of that oversexualization bs and keeps her history but just adjusted so she's still Artemis Grace!!

As stated,Jason,Eddie and Rose were the original trio and Jason got them to become Outlaws pretty easily thanks to Eddie having been sidekick besties with him and Summer too and Rose is always up for moral grayness(and is coincedentally another one of Summer's exes-His first ever girlfriend in fact!)and Summer joined post Ember/Red Hood thanks to him and Jason reuniting in Utrh and the series being about them reconnecting as he unintentionally influenced him to become more sardonic and brutal like they were as a kid so the Metropolis media framed them as 'evil all along' and that hurt them so much combined with smear campaign Lex did against them as a kid he worked so hard to disprove for so long that they finally ran away from home and joined The Outlaws like Jason wanted him to so they'd be a team again.He gifted him a black domino mask as 'giving him a piece of himself' to finish off the new costume Summer made.After a decent while of just The Dark Four Core,Pepper came along as the fifth member because of her crush on Summer she'd gained due to their flirtatiouns back in Metropolis that he still returned and they accidentally rescued Thad from dying in a chaotic and quick incident and took him in since he had literally nowhere to go

And the Raven lore by Amrit:Her second ressurection takes place right before Under The Red Hood and the cult that did the ritual chose an indian girl's body because Azarath and Indian are closely linked.She dosen't rejoin the Teen Titans as she feels infantalized at the idea so she takes a year off but once it passes her life is still in shambles-She barely talks to any of her friends,most of her loved ones are dead and so many people are scared of her.Dick hires her to track down Jason and she loves and misses him so much she says yes so she's introduced as the first big Rhato villain but we actually don't know it's her at first and it's a grand reveal.Eddie is the only one who dosen't know who she is as Jason and Summer recognize her from their Robin and Sparks/sidekick days and her and Rose were actually friends during The Titans and the Dark Core Four help her accept her rage in a really cool fight scene,then she calls a truce with them and basically becomes their field medic 2 issues later and teaches them meditation and such practices.She starts patching things up with the other people in her life but her and Dick still argue a lot and when he finds out about her teaming up with The Outlaws,they have a huge fight that ironically makes her decide to officially join them and change her codename but they do eventually repair their relathionship

Pepperose was just a natural thing that happened-They flirted on first meeting mutually and Rose was shellshocked Pepper actually hit on her back and then kinda became obsessed with in a non-creepy way her LMFAO She acts like a booktok bf💀Peps is very happy about it though and they're 'gal pals' for about 50 issues before sealing the deal and doing the official girlfriends thing.Rose calls her Pinkie Pie and Pepper calls her 'my favorite rose'.Pepper dosen't really change all that much other than improved self-eestem and getting stronger(and bustier and curvier as her hrt really hits)but she also kills Slade for good out of love for Rose and that's when Rose kisses her,no holding back anymore and they're married by the 2nd to last issue and Rose's 'Willow' mantle comes in at issue 91 and her arc is a heavy but good one that's all about her being human despite what others say

Kahali was gruesomely murdered by The Joker as he filmed the whole thing and sent a physical copy to Summer with a note that said 'history repeats are as sweet as you are,Dearie Em' because of them being intergenerational best friends and partners on the hero field as Ember and Bloody Mary and he'd even taken on the parental role in his life,not just a mentor anymore after his mom's death and his birth dad being an abusive shitstain and they kept in touch which is how The Joker found Kahali.Summer was catatonic but also stuck in his dragon/Kryptofang form and when he snapped back to conciousness,he flew to Gotham before his cremation ceremony to dunk him in the Lazarus Pit,knowing it's exact location thanks to Talia helping out The Outlaws now and then as Jason's adoptive mom and lead of Taliacorp,the reworked ex-Lexcorp she took over in her run of the same name.Kahali came back with Pit Powers much stronger than Jason's and he rubs it in his face,along with it turning his hair completely white but he still dyes it red and Summer mother hen's him more than ever for obvious reasons(well those and the additional one is Summer also got killed and ressurected by a Gotham Rogue as a sidekick)and Kahali updated himself from Bloody Mary to his current moniker.Tim and him were a very atypical couple on every level but that only made them happier with and better for eachother and Tim entered his villain era as 'Dove' over what happened because he believed Kahali was his soulmate and saviour and even had plans to marry him despite not asking him out yet and ironically enough they reunited on the battlefield without recognizing eachother at first until Tim did first and unmasked himself in shock just like Jason did to Summer in Utrh.Time stood still until they rushed up to kiss in relief and disbelief in Tim's case and they started a secret long distance relathionship after that

Artemis joined for reasons that're a bit complicated to match her origin story but the jist of it is she was living in the normal world and deemed them worthy of her companionhood despite how annoying she found them(especially Jason)and they helped her out with her emotions and better translating her mannerisms and she technically turned into a goddess permanently(and willingly)and Kyle had a lot of crazy ass Lanterns shit happen that had him be forced by his mentors to take a breather and he choose a crosscountry roadtrip and he met his teammates by almost running Eddie over because he was trying to eat freshly made ramen and it got in his eyes.He had a bit of a morals trip with his new friends and old ex boygirlfriend he's still mutually flirty with sometimes to say the least(and ends the run thee White Lantern).There's heavy featuring of his parents and past in this because hooooooo boy,he is a character of all time!!

Duke is the 5th Robin because of Summer's involvement and he got a year in pretty good but then him and Bruce nearly broke apart over a fight and he got so scared of being fired as Robin because of being only a 12 year old technical orphan(jokerized parents and Gnonom for a biodad)he followed Summer's footsteps by ditching Gotham and that was how he meet Jason,who introduced himself as his true identity to him because of Summer's positive talk of him and accepted Duke's ask for shelter and so Duke was now an Outlaw.He wasn't forced to kill but he did become pretty harsh in fights and this caused him angst only for a bit as he was reassured by the older members.In Issue 39,Jason snarks he was just 'The Replacement Robin' and Duke defensively says 'You were always my favorite Robin when i was little!I never even got to see you in action but you're my favorite for good now!' and Jason is taken back and stunned,completely clueless on how to process it and in issue 110,Duke says to Jason '.....I was never a real Robin.I've been with you guys way longer than i ever was with Bruce-' and Jason cuts him off with 'Yeah,no shit you were never Batman's Robin.You're The Outlaws' Robin-You're my Robin and you always have been and you always will be' and Duke breaks down so Jason comforts him and that's when Summer walks in with their Dairy Super and Batburger double flight orders and asks what happened but helps in further comforting him before either even get to explain with Duke thanking him for being the reason he got to take the first step to heroism to which he gets platonically bubbly and flattered and tells him he's the perfect Robin and Duke does a toothy happy grin that takes up most of the last panel in that issue.A text box reads 'Duke Thomas is happy.Jason Todd is happy again,thanks to him.They're eachother's Robin,on purpose and by choice'

All the direct longlasting exposure to so much super science-y and magic jazz and trazz made his power system escelarate and he went from light and darkness powers to straight up reality warping.He gets stuck in a pocket dimension for a hot sec but Summer and Jason pull him out with Thad's help as an expert on that situation.The universe is trying to create the N52 but Duke's Robinhood is stopping it and in an arc of 18 issues to symbolize the 18 core Outlaws,Duke,Summer,Jason,Thad,Kahali,Jennifer,Mathew,Imani,Kyle,Venus,Raven,Eddie,Rose and Pepper get the headfirst headons into helping completely erase even the slimest posibility of the N52 canonizing but ALL The Outlaws are in on it,including an unfringed Tam as our Batgyal and honorary Outlaw for two and a half months at the time!!Duke as our Robin deserves that dramatic ahh 'We love you and always want you with us,nobody else could be our Robin' storyline.Our Sunspot has earned it

Imani gets hired because of her reputation as a leathily effecient spy and she fits right in,crying herself to sleep a few times after they'd been together long enough to call eachother family.She's a gremlin from the start and influences Mathew to be the same and she's close to everybody but Summer and her are interdimensional sisters soulmates a la Percy Jackson and Hazel Levesque and he was the first one to break down her walls and they go out of their way to defend the other nonstop and this helps Summer's eldest daughter syndrome trauma.Catblooded/Vimani starts in a remastered Gotham War which is about them and The Watchers and lest to say they're perfect together and Jason,Kyle,Mathew,Lilith and Jennifer NEVER let them live it down.Lilith's intro is a parody of Batman 357-Instead of stealing his tires,she hacked Jason's computer to leak his old Undertale chats and he begged her to join in humiliating ways only for it to be revealed she only did it for fun and came to join because Summer and him were close friends in their teen years but got seperated due to Hell bussiness.She made sure to take pictures 'to send to Summie of his cringelord ass hubbie'.None of these words are denied by anyone at all

At the same time this was happening,Artemis,Azriel,Thad,Pepper and Duke were on a mission and Artemis was almost fatally wounded but Daisy came in as her angel with healing oitments made with her chlorokinesis and Artemis saw her with a glowing pink halo around her head,too enchanted by her to care about almost dying.Daisy was a duo with Lilith and had the same reasoning as her for being there but they got seperated thanks to a villain attack and they're the team hacker and team botanist.They picked Venus up at a party she was DJ'ing and she started as only an ally but joined them officially in a parallel to Teen Titans 2003!Tara Markov after an angst arc and it actually took her and Kyle a hot sec to get officially together due thinking their attraction was purely physical and her and Pepper did a toon girlypop squee sequence after she got the official Outlaw title as Star Sapphire solidarity.Mathew was having insecurities over not being as good as Summer because he's not as Clark-esque as him

This leads into 'Superguy's Breaking Out' arc,when Lor-Zod infects him with black kryptonite and it functions as an angstified mythology gag to the widely beloved Multicolor Raven Emotions from the Teen Titans cartoon as we get Superguy,Negasuper,Supernega and Guysuper in manifistations of Mat's kindness,anger,envy and creativity and a Krypton heavy arc follows as it leads to the dual swords Kaliodoton and Kryptoscade,the legendary kryptonian swords that were wielded by various kryptonian and kryptofang duos throught Krypton's history and now Mathew Kent and Summer Kent to complete their journey to fix Mat's self-eestem and uncover even more of Fantasma's backstory,the ghost of the last surviving Kryptofang that lives in Summer's head as a DID metaphor(with the following symptoms and required trauma to turn him into a system!).Their quest lasts three weeks and they return to The Fortress to the world's biggest group hug with Mathew especially misty eyed but in a happy way and have a huge cultural fusion dinner they all made together that includes previously lost kryptonian recipes

Jennifer was missing from Gotham because she'd been given Lian's teleported across time and space multiple times storyline due to an accident that happened while on a quest for Solana Banks to restore her lost home dimension Helioas because she thought she'd found an articifact that would but misenterpreted it's powers.Lucky for her,her journey only lasted 1 year instead of multiple and she crashlanded inside The Fortress literally in the middle of The Outlaws video game night.She wasn't ready to live normally again just yet so she stayed and became an official member as a result,from Batgal to Batika.And to complete our family,Azriel had the easiest and most simplistic one-Lilith asked Jason to let her join them because of how strong she is and not having many friends so he accepted and she's actually the goriest of the Outlaws beating even Thee Red Hood in it and this is part of her demonic nature and carries no secret undertones to it.Like Flowergrace,Thadzriel was love at first newbie sight and they have such a sweet middle school dating dynamic

Raven and Kahali take a trip to India to rediscover and reclaim their respective cultures and bond in the process,becoming siblings almost as close as Kahali and Summer.They get matching jhumkas while they're there!!The other ooc(Outlaws of color)all get to visit their motherlands too at some point in the story and Pepper gets a bonus with the Pepperose wedding taking place in Italy

Luna appears in a significant amount of issues but since she's Aquafam she sticks to her own territory most of the time and her and Duke are purely platonic,having met in Robin 2007,with love not blooming until Duke becomes The Signal and leads a new team he made called The Lights with Luna joining as 'Moonguide' and they have a slowburn that spans until their adults years as Eris(Duke)and Selene(Luna).Like Summer to Jason,Luna is the Starfire to Duke's Robin and an honorary Kid Outlaw

Jaysumm's dynamic is childhood best friends and sidekick partners > Enemies only in the technical sense > Best friends again but Jason flirting with Summer constantly and Summer not buying Jason isn't joking because of their history together > Being insuferably obviously in love and Summer's literally the ONLY one who dosen't know > Fwb who act like a couple already with Jason still only knowing it on his side and angst for him as a result > Sneaking off to take Jon off trick or treating in opposite costumes(fairy goddess princess and blood moon werewolf)and Summer's epiphany finally happens so he confesses when they make it home and Jason confesses back so they make out and sleep together literally > Official couple when exactly 11 issues remaining in a 120 part series LMFAO

🎶They don't give a damn about their reputation🎶 < Had to make that joke,mb kings.But yeah they generally don't care about perception from normies and ARE here to unteach propaganda as they fuck around and make people find out the systems are fucked.It's very embarrasing for certain superheroes that the eco-terrorists without the no kill code are better parents to their kids than they are to theirs and their legacy stays even post quasi-disbanment(They keep in contact forever ofc,it's just the plot needed them elsewheres and there's common reunions and video calls)

Culturally fused team,both race and species.Afrolatino and brown latino,kryptonian and amazonian,speedster abonimation and macabita demon,human and meta and so forth.Subculture fused too as they frequently participate in eachother's aesthetics and interests and they're all multilingual.Clashes between them occasionally but never too bad

The genre is like.Superhero comedy but also horror but also fantasy but also sci-fi but also urban fantasy but also surrealism but also romance drama but also psychological thriller????????It's the Homestuck of DC,everything ever happens in Red Hood and The Outlaws 2010-2020.This includes the catgirls and the hyperspecific lore and the weird ass art that's somehow good and the-

The covers always fuck NO exceptions,Summer does meta commentary telling fans to not buy their merch officially and to instead get it secondhand or they'll be dissapointing him but Pepper full on breaks the fourth wall and Jennifer gained the same power from the No N52 Mission and Lilith can too,it has it's own official opening on the official DCAU channel and a few shorts and this includes a pride video like the Bubbline one by Cartoon Network and it stars Jaysumm,Pepper is the most well-known and beloved trans DC character,they're SUPER popular in in Latin America and with latino-americans,it has multiple lego sets and The Outlaws Girls even got their own doll line and they have crossover mini series with Young Justice that's 24 issues and called 'Just Us,No Laws'

Live action cast:Aubrey Joseph as Jason,Booboo Stewart as Eddie,Chelsea Zhang as Rose,Amandla Stenberg as Summer,Lonnie Chavis as Thad,Nicole Maines as Pepper,Avantika Vandanapu as Raven,Jenna Qureshi as Kahali,Issac Ryan Brown as Duke,Trina Mcgee as Imani,Diego Tinocco as Kyle,Imaan Hammam as Artemis,Halle Bailey as Venus,Walker Scobell as Mathew,Teyonah Harris as Daisy,Ruby Baker for Lilith,Riele Dowds as Jennifer,Priah Ferguson as Azriel,Coco Jones as Tam and Shanina Shaik as Talia

The arcs names' in order:Ignite arc,In This City arc,Blood Maker arc,Cat got your tongue? arc,Man's World arc,Superguy! arc,Motherland arc,Speak of the Devil arc,StarWillow arc,Gotham-Hoods arc,Outlawed Robin arc and In with the Outs arc(finale)

There's a Scooby Doo crossover event since it's confirmed DC is canon to the Scoobertverse and it's 27 issues and titled 'Scooby Doo and The Outlaws',a graphic novel by Bryan O'Malley in the Scott Pilgrim artstyle and storytelling font called 'Jason Todd's After Afterlife' and multiple Rhato x Atsv official arts because of Summer inspiring Hobie Brown's recreation as Spiderpunk in the 2010s with Superpunk in the 1990s as a butterfly effect ala Donald Grover and Miles Morakes(and there's even one of Gayatri meeting Kahali and Jaysumm meeting Punkflower)

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Azriel is so trans coded. Too bad everyone is straight and cis in this series. Missed opportunity.

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Hello! I popped in a few days ago to say how much I love your blog and I thought I would circle back a little bit with some of my (messy) thoughts on the ACOTAR series from an LGBTQ+ perspective. (Maybe I could make a side blog for this. God knows how I struggle with the horrible writing in the Dragon Age games on main). My credentials: trans man and bisexual, but I’d like to blanket that I don’t speak for the entire community and, of course, I am speaking from my own experiences.

So, the first lgbtq+ character prominent we’re introduced to in SJM’s bibliography is actually Aedion from Throne of Glass, and the only reason I’m starting off with him is because I’m really mad that he was our first prominent bisexual character in the books and there was 0 mention of his relationships with other men; it was a throwaway line before his romance with Lysandra (in which SJM butchered his character in the last book. Not to say that bi men can’t date women! I liked their ship but I was mad at how it was treated as tokenism).

Within ACOTAR, we’re first greeted with Helion, and the issue with his writing is… pretty glaring, I think. The promiscuous bisexual is a harmful trope that’s been toted around for a while; “oh, you’re bi? you must be down for sex all the time with whoever you want” which… ignores the fact that sexuality can be a spectrum and does assign bisexuality a sort of sexual morality that people have used to condemn us for a long time. Not to say that Helion can’t be promiscuous, but there is a focus on it as a huge aspect of his character when there are other ways to do it.

I feel like Morrigan is a little self-explanatory. It’s… not great, imo, that SJM isn’t being a little more clear about her (if she prefers sexual relationships with men but intimate romantic relationships with women, great! But please SAY THAT). The way she strings Azriel along is cruel and unnecessary—she shouldn’t need to feel afraid to come out to people who are supposedly “her best friends” or “are like brothers to her”. Hell, she felt safer coming out to Feyre, who’s she’s known for considerably less time! I’ll also touch briefly on the whole situation with Eris… insofar as to say that I think SJM writing it out with such violence was unnecessary and the optics of “I prefer women because men harmed me” that, while may not be necessarily true, the appearance of it being true reads really poorly because it’s what conservatives and conversion camps like to tout about lgbtq+ people (“you’re only like that bc someone hurt you”).

Thesan is another one, but SJM left his lover unnamed. C’mon. There’s barely any named NPCs in this series as it is, it wouldn’t have killed her to slap a name on his husband/mate.

Speaking of mates, I need to gripe about the mating bond too—in ACOMAF, I believe it is, but just in general, the bond is used to indicate NOT who would be happiest in love, but it is based on which pairing would “make the strongest offspring”. So, if we walk away from the heteronormativity of that explanation, how the HELL do you get gay mates? And if you’re gay, what happens if your “mate” is someone you’re not romantically or even sexually attracted to? Do you just have to deal with this uncomfortable and predestined tension and expectations to suck it up and make babies, anyway? And why should it be based on children and the ideal nuclear family? (We know why. But from a meta perspective, why?)

And as a brief aside, I still haven’t seen a trans character. Not that I’d want to. I think I would end up being terribly offended if she tried to do so. Sorry this ended up being so long! Maybe I should’ve devoted it to my own post 😔

No, you're fine! I'd had my own thoughts about some of these but I'd never considered the full extent of how abysmal her representation truly was. Tysm for this!

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I also think that Azriel is trans. I just have a feeling. Like we get the least about his past maybe because back then he hates who he was and now is more happy. I also believe he is the smallest bat boy (his past) and I also believe he is trans but is afraid to tell anyone except Rhys and Cass.

I’m not really reading since i’m in a bit of a slump but here are some trans headcanons just for fun

I think Lucien is the trans-est guy in ACOTAR

Lucien is objectively the hottest name any character has. And sounds exactly like the type of name a trans masc person would want for themselves.

Also Tamlin’s a shapeshifter so there’s no way he’s not genderqueer AF

It just makes sense that he would welcome Lucien into his court so they could be a happy little trans family

Remember when he like, angrily told Feyre that there’s no such thing as a High Lady

Maybe he only did that because he’s so upset he was forced into this masculine presenting body because of the way society is

But Tamlin prefers to be genderfluid/genderqueer

Spring Court is all about renewing life magic and stuff.

(Also I think Elain is trans - I don’t have an excuse for this - I just think she *is*)

(Like picture Nesta always looking out for her and being like LEAVE MY SISTER ALONE) (and picture her being the most supportive big sister) (and Feyre adopting the traditionally masculine role in the family and doing tasks like hunting so that her older sister wouldn’t have to! It makes it so much MORE SWEET) (picture Elain being trans and being dropped into the cauldron) (and expecting to come out fully transitioned) (but her body was the same; she was just fae, now)(I think it lends a little more weight to the conversation she had with Amren about gender in Frost and Starlight) (also I think it would be so dang cute if she was scared of mating to Lucien because of internalized transphobia and the role of a woman under a man in their society) (only to find out that he’s trans too!)

[hereforyourdispleasure]

Darian and Azriel unintentional similarities that have always made me teehee

literally born the same year

older sibling

trans