Celebrate Trans Characters: Transtide 2022

[simonlorden]

What is TransTide?

Since trans headcanons and the portrayal of trans characters can be personal for many people, writers might be nervous to write trans headcanons without invitation. This mini challenge is for people to signal that they would love to receive trans headcanons, as well as to showcase their requested fandoms with canon trans characters.

Note that this exchange is open to nonbinary characters as well.

How do I participate?

• Leave a comment on this post linking your letter and/or listing your requested fandoms and characters if you 1) requested canonical trans characters, 2) are happy to receive a gift where your writer headcanons one or several of the characters as trans.
• Feel free to add any likes and DNWs.
• Make sure to include your ao3 name!
• If you post a fic for Yuletide with one or more trans characters, tag it with TransTide so people can find it easily.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 name: nerdsandthelike
Letter link: (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-dz7RuDGAj00qDy-wlExEDnxwvpdGUEsTZzJ4jrl4c/edit)

General DNWs: incest, A/B/O, Mpreg, teacher/student (of any age or level of education), explicit sex with any character under 18, significant age gaps, noncon or dubcon, dark versions of any character, graphic portrayals of self harm (references and discussions are fine), suicide, cheating, domestic abuse, kinky sex, violent sex, violent bigotry of any kind (I.e., someone is denied a job for being trans is fine, someone being assaulted for being trans is not)

I'll add some specific prompts to my letter for each fandom if you want more details, but here are some general thoughts.

Fandom 1: The Princess Diaries
Characters: Clarisse Renaldi, Joseph, Mia Thermopolis, Nicholas Devereaux
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: Specific DNWs: non-canon ships, high school AU (dealing with a part of the canon timeline where the characters are in high school is fine!)
This is maybe not the fandom I would most expect trans headcanons, but I fully welcome them! In this case, I prefer the characters to be trans [the gender they present as in canon] (so Mia as a trans woman, Nicholas as a trans man, etc.) or nonbinary/genderfluid, etc. Clarisse is the one character I think might be difficult to trans headcanon here, but if you want to do it, go for it! Basically I'd love to see these characters as living their best lives while being trans. In whatever level of canon divergence or compliance or AU you'd like!

Fandom 2: Billy Eliot: The Musical - Elton John/Hall
Characters: Billy Elliot, Debbie Wilkinson, Michael Caffrey, Mrs Wilkinson
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:
Specific DNWs: adult/child relationships, endgame Billy/Debbie
Trans femme Michael!!!! Michael's very obviously queer and is dressed really femme at the end of the movie (which is the only part of the movie I've seen!). I'd also love to see Billy and/or Debbie exploring gender, though I'm not super comfortable with either of them as binary trans. Maybe genderfluid Billy and butch enby Debbie? I don't especially see Mrs. Wilkinson as trans, but again, have fun with that if it interests you!

Fandom 3: Legally Blonde - Hach/O'Keefe/Benjamin
Characters: Elle Woods, Emmett Forrest, Paulette Bonafonté , Vivian Kensington
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:
Specific DNWs: non-canon ships, high school AU (dealing with a part of the canon timeline where the characters are in high school is fine!)
The Legally Blonde fandom watched the song "Take It Like a Man" and went "Emmett's a trans guy," and they were RIGHT! I'd also love trans woman Elle and/or Paulette. Elle doing some sort of nonbinary femme thing would also be delightful. And honestly, Vivian is ready for a gender journey, and I'd love to see where it goes.

Fandom 4: The Will Darling Adventures - K. J. Charles
Characters: Kim Secretan, Will Darling, Maisie Jones, Phoebe Stephens-Prince
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:
Specific DNWs: non-canon ships, high school AU, unhappy ending, for this fandom canon-typical references to self-harm are okay
This is the other fandom where I have less specific gender ideas. But I would love to see more conversations about gender in the historical context of the 1920s. Gender and sexuality were so connected, that it gets really interesting. In this case, I prefer the characters to be trans [the gender they present as in canon] (so Phoebe as a trans woman, Kim as a trans man, etc.) or nonbinary/genderfluid, etc. For this fandom in particular, I really just want to see everybody happy, so whatever level of canon divergence or AU you go for, I want there to be queer joy.

Fandom 5: Mansfield Park
Characters: Fanny Price, Mary Crawford
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:
Specific DNWs: Fanny/Henry, a focus on Fanny/Edmund, for this fandom canon-typical incest (i.e., first cousins) is okay
First of all, I do ship them. But beyond that, I'm really open to anything here. There is so much potential for playing with gender in a society with very strict gender expectations. And they deal with those expectations in such different ways in canon. There's so much trans potential here.

Fandom 6:
Characters: Eurydice, Hades, Hermes, Orpheus, Persephone
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:
Specific DNWs: non-canon ships, Hades/Eurydice, high school AU
T4T Orpheus/Eurydice?? I really want a modern AU of these two, and I would love for this to be a part of it. Also, what even is gender to the gods? Or maybe there's some gender world building you want to do about... wherever and whenever this musical is set. In this case, I prefer the characters to be trans [the gender they present as in canon] (so Persephone as a trans woman, Hades as a trans man, etc.) or nonbinary/genderfluid, etc. But since Hermes has been played by both men and women, I think you can just go for whatever you want there.