#trans girl ylfa

[a-corvid-waltz]

we’ve seen and digested the information of trans girl Ylfa based on her last name being Snorglesson and not Snorgledottir, and this is great.

I raise you trans girl Ylfa who’s grandmother’s name is the same. Trans girl Ylfa naming herself after the person she loves the absolute most in this world, wanting nothing else than to be like her.

[sparkystar26888]

Ok ok lets go we're going to try and make some sense of the rambling in my brain.

First off, time and time again they have been asked who are human, who are monsters, who are cursed. and time and time again they have either denied or accepted one of these things, but always with a caveat. "this is temporary". even this ep they were asked by Baba Yaga "whom of you are monsters". and by the end, many become them. they become monsters to save the innocent.

Emily Axford is one of the best actors ive seen. People have talked about cycles of death/abuse/other, about Ylfa symbolizing the trans experience or puberty. and they are completely right, and i wont talk about what has already been said. but what really gives me the feeling of deep sadness is that Ylfa is a child. she is a young girl, shunned by her family, who has died and seen many die. and now she has, in part, given up that girlhood. but is it really giving it up if you have already lost it

rosamund this episode, for me, really encapsulated my experiences of the grief of being aromatic. because we grow up believing we will find love, that it is in the stars that one day you will settle down and have a lover. but when you find out you cant or likely wont, there is a grief and a hardship in letting that go. and i know rosamund isnt the same; that it is more uncertainty triumphing a forced love, but it still spoke to me.

speaking of forced love - gerard giving his humanity and name up for elody, a woman circumstance made him love. weve established that he was a child when he was cursed; that he did not have the ability to mature with the rest. but while he does truly love elody, there is a great possibility that this would not be true if he had been allowed to learn to be better like a normal child does. cursed by your own mortality and mistakes. UGH

[asw4ng]

ylfa snorgelsson is trans and a wolf girl and follows caterpillars following butterflies and needs to obey authority figures and is going through the worst horrors ever but remains a preteen girl in her heart and she met death and death wanted her to live and she is my everything

[ace-of-d1am0nds]

going through old intrepid heroes edits i have bookmarked on my phone and i think i’ve decided that ylfa/big bad wolf is my favorite character out of all of the intrepid heroes characters and here’s why

she’s so trans coded it’s ridiculous. like something something transformation pushing away the people who supposedly love you because they can’t accept who you’ve become

unrelated to that but the girl who doesn’t want to admit she’s the beast until she’s forced to reckon with it by way of sacrifice and giving herself up to it to the point of forgetting who she is

the beast confronting her, telling her she can’t defeat him only for her to tell him they are one and the same

she’s just a stuffy nosed little girl who grew beyond her own lifetime a million times over but never outgrew being a child

the entire scene where she walks through the woods to follow a little girl and instead of threatening her she hugs her and leads her to safety. breaking the cycle through kindness and sincerity

the cyclical nature of her story in this medium (idk this one just makes my brain fjskfhskfh. rotating microwave and all that)

i forget about little red ylfa the big bad wolf for a while and then she comes up again every once in a blue moon and suddenly i can’t stop thinking about her for like a week straight

[englishmagic]

Grandmother Ylfa had a last name ending in dottir, and granddaughter Ylfa has a name ending in -son. So in her family they do give -dottir names to the girls. Then why did they not give her one? Why is she called son?

What I’m saying is, trans Red who picked her grandma’s first name as her own naming herself after her favourite person. And kept her ‘male’ last name because she is a child and honestly didn’t think about it. Thank you.

[peopleareaproblem]

Hi! I'm Icelandic!

So what this actually implies about Ylfa is that she is a second generation immigrant from Fantasy Iceland to somewhere that uses a different naming system (read: anywhere else in the world).

It's true that names ending in -son mean you're male here and names ending in -dóttir mean you're female. However, Icelandic trans people usually change these to coincide with their new names. (The nonbinary -bur ending has also emerged.)

What this post, and most posts on this, are missing though, is that it literally means son and daughter. Your last name is indicative of usually your dad's first name, and then -son or -dóttir. So if your dad is named Jón and you're a girl then your last name is Jónsdóttir – literally "Jón's daughter". (I actually changed mine to my mom'sname when I was 20 to reflect being raised by a single mom.) And what the posts are also missing is that Icelandic people who move abroad usually don't keep doing this, and instead their last names freeze — this is what the names Johnson and Anderson and other such names actually are, originally. And Ylfa having such a name implies her FATHER is named Something Snorgelsson.

It also weirdly implies there's a grandpa out there named Snorgell, which is wack because that's not a name and it is my only pet peeve about this whole thing. Snorri and Þorkell are both names. No names end in -gell though. Argh.

Also, the grandma is named Jottensdottir, which sounds like they were aiming for Jötunn and missed a lil bit. Jötunn is a specific type of giant, so that might be a clue on future plot points.

Ok I know I'm probably not the only one but:

Ylfa trans headcannon.

Based on what I know about Icelandic last names - I'm not an expert.

[galaxdora]

Yknow what, fuck it, ylfa is a trans girl uwu bc I said so ^^

[vide0-nasties]

All the Js for Euffie, WW, and Ylfa

Joy

1. what makes them happy?

Eustacia: Painting and filing her nails, pink gala apples, wind just as it starts to rain in the near-distance, the color black, the color teal, waves chopping off the gray ocean, beaches white as bone, the sunlight hitting asra’s shoulders, rice pudding, big dogs, the glint of gold jewelry in firelight, catching sight of her big teeth in the mirror, singing the old-heart-of-the-people hymns with a hundred other voices, little pewter bells, jumping through fire, water against her skin, asra, and asra, and asra, and asra, ad nauseum. 

Ylfa: Jokeri her pet Schipperke dog and constant companion, the pull of a bowstring, flying on her bat so high the landscape looks like a map, her hair when the curl is good and tight, red velvet clothing, the smell of the ink that colors her orders’ fingers, her mother, her mother’s smile, her mother’s voice, comparing hand sizes, taqtu’s get-in-trouble grin and broad chest, halle’s moonstone chip eyes and the spaces between his fingers, snow, the midwinter thaw, spring, dancing festivals, congregation with the gods, a good hard fuck in a warm bed on a cold night.

Wildwood: leather and soap oil smell, cordite, a fresh box of brass shells in the summer sun, the back of arthur’s neck and the chip in his tooth, well-maintained horse hooves, her horse abaddon and the wonderful curve of her ears, trumpet music, playing the violin and autoharp, flatfoot dancing, pretty chains for pocketwatches, silk neck ties, red embroidery thread, kissing and holding hands, shakespeare, dumas, speaking french, lanterns at night, rifles finished in rosewood, pistols with pearl grips.

2. who makes them happy?

Eustacia: her answers are cyclical and they all focus in on the same things in her little, little world. Her hyena familiar, Gaire, makes her happy. Asra, always-always Asra, makes her happy.

Ylfa: Her mother, Xandria, and her fast speech and flittering thoughts and endless curiosity. Mukondi, and her kindness and humor and goodwill and concern. Taqtu, and his loudness and boldness and strength and grounding. Halle, and his quiet nature and knowledge of the wild world and nervousness and sad eyes.

Wildwood: Her fledgling group of lost boys (and girls). Any kindly soul she finds herself envying. Her horses–Abaddon, saved from a river and bottle-fed from the time she was a baby, soft in the mouth and always listening–Orobas, a beast built for flight, that fought for fun, he who ate meat and enjoyed it. They who are lost to her, lingering warm and eternally young in her memories–her brother Remus, her mother Alouette, Annabelle, and Dee (when the times were good and sweet to them as they allowed). Hosea, who is neat and trim and wily and a goddamn demon when the mood strikes. Dutch, who is the mirror she fights to cover at every turn. Arthur, her Arthur, who came to her with quiet and empty hands, again and again and again through the years,  a twenty-year slow-turn bedded deep down in the soul.

3. are there any songs that bring them joy?

Eustacia: Krigsgaldr  - (trans.) Coexistence, Conflict, combat / Devastation, regeneration, transformation / That is the best I can do for you

Ylfa: Odal - (trans.) It will not leave / Heavy it weighs / Remember, do not take more than you can carry

Wildwood: I’ll Twine Mid the Ringlets - Oh, I’ll dance, I will sing and my laugh shall be gay / I will charm ev'ry heart, in his crown I will sway

4. are they happy often?

Eustacia: No, but she had found her happiness, and she will find it again and leave clawmarks in it for the wretched tightness of her grip. And when the source of it's come and gone, she'll be able to stare down the far horizon of forever-and-ever and remember the devouring importance of it.

Ylfa: She can be. Between the hellish forgetfulness of her experiences and the evaporating threat of an unfulfilling life, she can be explosively, indescribably happy.

Wildwood: There isn't much cause for happiness in the lives of her and hers. Tragedy, however, they are rich in. But she is at peace in the uncertainty. She's content, at times. But after everything goes straight to hell and there is nothing left for the world to know she was ever alive, she will be the happiest she's ever, ever been.

5. what brings them the most joy in the world?

Eustacia: Finally having her undeniable, unrepenetant freedom and being Asra’s wife. She’s no longer under anyone’s control but her absolute own and she gets to share her life with someone wonderful and weird and fantastical that loves her as much as she loves him. Someone that would go to hell and back for her, someone she’d gladly serve her entire eternal life while never ever being obligated to do so.

Ylfa: Belonging and being beloved and being necessary. Being someone’s first thought when something she might like comes up. Being a person someone else can come to for help. Being missed when she is gone, being lauded when she arrives. Being part of a family. Being a heart, and bringing others together.

Wildwood: Reconciling and being at peace with her nature and history, helping and nurturing people to grow, become what they have the potential to someday be, give them the room to be greater than what they came from.

[lilydvoratrelundar]

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