#you have cisgender swag I guess

[transsongtaewon]

In my heart of hearts taejinjae is t4t4c with Song Taewon and Han Yoojin being trans and having fun with that while Sung Hyunjae is the odd one out as a cis person. He has the most boring gender imaginable, he can't help it.

[keybladespirit]

3x3 of Characters I Headcanon as Cis Men

(And a few quick justifications as to why.) (An exercise in reframing transness as a default identity.)

Joker: I should be clear, Joker is a teenager so I'm not pushing this identity onto such a young person. However, his being an outsider and trying his best to keep his head down to avoid ruffling feathers feels a lot like when I was experimenting with cisgenderism around his age, except he seems to gain a lot of confidence . Maybe he's also just experimenting, but I feel like for now we should respect the identity that he's trying to present.

Light Yagami: Some might say that only a trans woman would be smart enough to get as far as Light did, but only a cis man would want to do something as insane as murdering every criminal, and have such a god complex to think he deserves that power.

Fortnight Zavala: This might be my most controversial pick. Yes we all know the actual Commander Zavala is a normal man, but Fortnight is such a wacky and wild crossover universe that it only makes sense they'd make a weird change like making him cisgendered for no reason.

Kiryu Kazuma: Most boys have at least a few woman role models growing up, but Kiryu seems to have only ever had Kazama, a man, as his lifelong role model. 'm only on Yakuza 3 so I guess this is more like a prediction than a headcanon for now, but given the story of the series I doubt there's gonna be a "Kazuma Kiryu comes out as cis" moment. It would be very weird if they made a reveal like that instead of just leaving it as subtext.

Hatsune Miku: Self explanatory.

Emperor Palpatine: Only a cisgendered man could be that evil. Come on.

Mumen Rider: Idk he just kinda has cboy swag.

Joker: This one is practically text, but it's not actually revealed so we're left to speculate anyway. The plot of Joker, if you read into it just a little, really feels like a cisgender coming out story and it's a powerful look into what that experience of questioning your whole reality might be like.

Roxas: This is actually less about Roxas and more about Sora. Sora is very well written as a hero's journey protagonist and part of that entails walking the line of being an everyman and being a defined character. Roxas, on the other hand, is very distinctly not that. He is both an outsider and someone who at first is defined solely in relation to someone else. I can't speak to the experiences of cisgenders, but I feel like there's really something that Roxas has in common with them, based on the experiences my cis friends have described to me about how they figured themselves out.

[butchhamlet]

cordelia has trans swag

as does lady macbeth (i can provide citations for this one)

hamlet, which we all know claudio has the opposite of trans swag, beatrice has SO MUCH of it. so does benedick for that matter honestly it's easier to list the characters that DON'T have trans vibes (the only ones i can currently think of are claudio and claudius, simply because i do not like them and they're not cool enough)

CORDELIA DOES HAVE TRANS SWAG!!!! I HAVE ACTUALLY TOUCHED ON THIS IN MY TRANS EDMUND POST tl;dr i think edmund and cordelia are fascinating foils and if edmund is trans then cordelia fucking better be. i think you could do something here with lear getting attached to his "son" over his daughters, enough so that by the time she comes out... well, she's already the favorite! + something very trans about speaking the truth to your family for once in your life and having them all get upset as if it's audacious to just... not want to play their arbitrary social games

lady macbeth... i assume your citations are about unsex me here?? 👁️ there are a thousand ways you can interpret that speech and it's fascinating. im going to have a bold take now which is that i think the macbeths could be t4t. i'll let them keep their genders but like. something something lady macbeth choosing womanhood deliberately but still being frustrated by the constraints it puts upon her, something something macbeth choosing manhood and deciding this means he has to prove his worth as a man through violence. i don't know i'm entirely spitballing but they compel me

HAMLET WHICH WE ALL KNOW! TURN UP! hamlet can be trans in literally any direction. trans man trans woman nonbinary genderfluid hamlet has it all

AND BEATRICE AND BENEDICK BELOVEDS <3 my shakespeare zoom group* did a lesbian sweep of much ado about nothing where we made beatrice/benedick and hero/claudio both wlw couples and it rewired my brain. i agree with you that beatrice and benedick are t4t and that claudio as he is in-text has no trans swag, but playing claudio as a butch lesbian changed something deep and innate in me so i'm going to try to convert you and all my followers to that opinion

(*yes, they made me play claudio, because they hate me)

AND ALSO!!! NOT TO ARGUE WITH YOU ANON BUT. i think you could do something fascinating with trans man king claudius, who has never been considered in line for the throne because his older brother is also his cisgender brother and--whoa, whoops, his dead brother! guess we'll have to put claudius on the throne after all 🤔 (this would make hamlet's derogatory comparisons of claudius to king hamlet, uh, hit a bit different. especially if your hamlet is also trans. fascinating post here on that)

anyway this is great keep em coming

[shootingsun]

Wammys kids incorrect quotes except they're all conversations/statements I have been a part of:

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L: Oh my God it's just like the time Beyond set his school on fire-

Mello: He what

Beyond: IT WAS AN ACCIDENT AND YOU'RE MAKING IT SOUND WORSE THAN IT WAS!

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Mello: I'm sorry for Near's behavior

L: you do realize that you were also participating in the behavior?

Mello: nooooo I was fighting on the side of righteousness it was justified

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Near: is this a healthy coping mechanism? No. Will I continue to do it? Probably

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Matt: stop telling little kids stories about real life serial killers!

Mello: if I had to be cursed with childhood trauma, SO DO THEY

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Beyond: No you don't even understand this manga changed my entire LIFE please read it I'm literally begging you

A: But I already know the entire plot because you told it to me via a series of rants

Beyond: STILL!

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Matt: I'm trans and a gamer which somehow just makes me even more swag

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L: I genuinely believe that no-one here is cisgender

A: Uh, I am?

Beyond: it's okay, we'll accept you when you realize that you're wrong

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Beyond: My gender is the same as that one frog man I saw on a computer once

Near: Same

Mello: Yup, agreed

Matt: I don't think anyone here DOESN'T relate to the frogs gender honestly

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Mello: I don't want to have sex with anyone you whore I want to have academic validation!!

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A: I'm literally going to die this very second, unless-

Beyond: OH THANK GOD I THOUGHT YOU WERE ENDING THE SENTENCE THERE

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Mello: the drunk horse show destroyed me emotionally however it did give me cool ideas for characters

Near: I'm sorry, the drunk WHAT show

Mello: Horse, god keep up Near

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L: Buying cake at 7:36 in the morning and consuming it all in under two minutes IS self care actually

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Matt: Why do acesexuals say the most horny shit? Like, lots of you don't even want the sex so why

Mello: Honestly I dunno but as an acesexual I can confirm that I say horny things all the time both in and out of context

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A: I'm a good person, I'm a good person, I'm a good person, I'm a good person-

Mello: Uh. What's A doing?

Near: He thinks if he says it enough it'll come true

L: That's because it works you know.

Mello: Wait really?

Mello, under his breath: ...I will get the top score on my exam, I will get the top score-

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Beyond: Who needs mental stability when you have EYELINER?

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L: I've been in counseling for 7 years now.

Matt: Uh, good for you I guess

L: Not good, somehow I'm still depressed they failed to fix me emotionally

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L: Look, someday, when you have the life experience I've had, you'll get it

Mello: I've never had the horizontal line dance because I'm literally underage and asexual

L: Oh shit yeah you're right

L: Hang on a fucking minute what did you just refer to sex as-

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A: Everyday I get closer and closer to committing a -cide. And the motherfuckers who've crossed me better pray it's not the Homo one.

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Mello: HOW ARE YOU BEATING ME YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED THIS GAME BEFORE??

Matt: Honestly I dunno I'm just pressing buttons and hoping for the best

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A: Do I picture his hair, his face, his eyes, the way our hands touch before I go to sleep? Do I long to feel the romance I'll never get to experience with him? Maybe. I mean, it might just be our mutual aromanticism, it might be my depression, but I know we can never be together in the way everyone expects us to be together...

Near: Sympathy noise.

A: Did you just say the words 'sympathy noise' to me?

Near: I'm bad at feelings why did you come to me about your sad gayness I don't know how to respond to that

[syn4k]

it must be wild being heterosexual heteromantic cisgender... walking around with no question of self. not even pausing to think about the mercy bestowed upon you where you don't have to worry about which bathroom to take or if you'll be clocked as straight or gay while pda'ing your partner. absolutely goddamn wild. you people just LIVE like this??? god i wish. but god made me sexy and transgender and aroace so idk i guess ill be sitting here on my throne of atheism and swag sipping apple juice or w/e