Writing meme!

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Since I am still procrastinating on a) the Avatar fic of doom, b) the Saionji fic, and c) that KHR Cowboy Bebop AU, now is obviously the perfect time for a gender/sex-swap fic meme thingy!

Ask for one or two or three-ish characters -- prompts lovely but optional -- and get a little fic or meta on them suddenly gaining different bits, differing sex & gender at birth, or (one way or the other) trans!fic. (Mukuro, Doumeki, & Ouran's Haruhi being special cases, however, since I'm pretty sure they're gender-queer. Or at least gender-don't-give-a-fuck.)

Any fandoms I'm familiar with are fine!

And I'm definitely not doing this just because I suddenly had an urge to write Kaitou Kid & perhaps one of his detective friends gaining breasts and figuring out what to do about it. Not at all, mmkay?

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Oooooh. Yamamoto and athleticism.

[fulselden]

Roy Mustang! Prompt ... um, 'uniform'?

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And I'm definitely not doing this just because I suddenly had an urge to write Kaitou Kid & perhaps one of his detective friends gaining breasts and figuring out what to do about it. Not at all, mmkay?

Pretty please?

If not, Tamaki - "the little prince"?

Yamamoto & athleticism

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Takeshi's still feeling a little weird, even though it's been three days already. Which isn't really a lot of time, he supposes, for getting used to a new center of balance. Oh well. The game's canceled anyway, due to enormous burn-damage to the school grounds.

His phone rings.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING, KATANA-BRAT."

"Hello, Squalo! I haven't seen you in a while!" It's kind of nice to hear from him, although Takeshi is a little bit curious how Squalo got his cell phone number. Would Reborn have . . . nah, it's probably on some Vongola database somewhere. The Varia have access to things like that, right? "Haha, the Bovino family invented something weird again, did you know? I don't think they should be handing the testing of all that stuff to kids."

A sigh filters through from Squalo's end, the kind that's all hissy because it's filtered through the sigher's gritted teeth. "Voiii, do I need to fly out all the way to Japan again just because you grew breasts?"

Squalo notices when he forces the cheer a little, huh. Okay then. Takeshi stays quiet for a little while, looking at the length of chest-wrapping cloth on his bedside table and the sword leaning next to it.

"Nah," he says eventually. "It's fine."


I have NO IDEA how Squalo got in there. *squints* He seems a little OOC, though. Sorry?

Re: Yamamoto & athleticism

[annotated_em]

Oooooooooh. Shiny.

[demoerin.livejournal.com]

This sounds ossum. And gender-don't-give-a-fuck certainly sounds like the right way to describe Mukuro and Haruhi. (I've never read XXX-Holic, so no comment on Doumeki.)

You know YGO, right? Then can I ask for genderswitch, Kaiba, "rags, tags, and velvet gowns".

And for KHR, Haru, born male, "an ardent orator".

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I read about half the manga a long time ago and recently read some good fanfic. That counts as 'knowing', right? (Also, I'm assuming that by 'genderswitch' you meant 'trans'; if I'm wrong, consider this a bonus fic?)


Seto realized a long, long time ago that clothes matter. Ragged jeans and faded T-shirts might garner sideways looks on the commuters' train, but would make her just one more lazy teenager in the less-affluent residential areas. People smile at a girl in a sundress and sandals, even if she's a little tall and keeps trying to hide her throat.

Buckles and high collars and long coats and leather and boots and dragons all together read as CEO Kaiba Seto. Not crossdresser or Kaiba's son or even Kaiba's daughter. She's made sure of that, with PR campaigns and advertising and the best marketing money can buy. When people see her face, they think her name.


I spent like an hour trying to remember/figure out with Google if Kaiba wore a trenchcoat or a duster. Eventually I just gave up.

Haru; an ardent orator

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Haru has always loved to talk, about anything, everything, nothing at all. People look at him weird sometimes for it and kind of don't want to stay close, which is kind of a pity but not enough of one for him to stop. (Then again, maybe it's the cosplay. There are a lot of girls who talk as much as he does, and everyone seems to like them fine.) His parents have an on-going joke about him becoming a politician when he's older -- at least Haru thinks it's a joke -- but Haru doesn't say things to convince people. He talks because he wants to, even if no one is really listening.

The only time he really regrets this is after he meets Tsuna. If ever there were someone he wanted to convince . . . but he never bothered learning how, so he just acts as though it's already decided. No one else seems to find the idea of Haru as a don's wife (husband, he supposes it would be) weird, not compared to baseball bats that turn into swords and magic rings that make you on fire, and Tsuna will come around eventually.

[demoerin.livejournal.com]

Now I realise that "genderswitch" is kind of like "AU vs. AR" in fandom, in that it can mean totally different things to different people. I meant the "suddenly wakes up with different sex" kind, but this was awesome so nevermind. :D

People smile at a girl in a sundress and sandals, even if she's a little tall and keeps trying to hide her throat.
I love this image. It's so strange for Kaiba! The hint at any kind of emotional vulnerability showing, and that kind of clothing.

I love how it's obvious that Kaiba's fought and sacrificed and conquered. It's very like canon that she's consciously, determinedly chosen to be what she is, or at least how she wants to be seen, even if it subsumes what she really is.

I spent like an hour trying to remember/figure out with Google if Kaiba wore a trenchcoat or a duster. Eventually I just gave up.
Fortunately I don't have clue one about the difference between the two, so it's cool by me! Fashion, what is it? Can you eat it>

Re: Haru; an ardent orator

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It's interesting how male Haru seems much more easy-going than the female version. I can see it. And I love that the Vongola just go "oh, okay, he wants to marry Tsuna".

Re: Haru; an ardent orator

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I wonder if that's a thing in my genderswitch fics, that men are/can afford to be more easygoing than women? Hmm.

The Vongola are very accepting of people who aren't currently trying to kill them. :D

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Apparently a duster is longer and was worn a lot in the early days of cars, when dust and grime would get all over your nice expensive clothes if you didn't cover them up, and trenchcoats came out of the military and have the trademark triangle-y collars. But after taking another look at Kaiba's outfit I still can't tell which he has, and it's sleeveless anyway so that probably disqualifies it for both.

I'm glad it worked for you! \o/

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"Well," Kid says thoughtfully after the green glow dies away. "I think we can definitively say that this is not the magic gem I am looking for."

Saguru manages to close his mouth. "I . . . see."

He doesn't.

Though on further thought, that comment is profoundly relieving. If Kaitou Kid had spent all this time and other people's' money chasing after sex reassignment surgery, Saguru might be forced to try and strangle him with his bare hands.

. . . 'Him' is still correct, isn't it?

Fucking pronouns.

"Hey," says Kid, leaning over him way too close. "Do you think it will do that again?"


I wanted this to be kind of serious with actual plot and length and stuff, but I don't think I should do that straight off with a brand new fandom. Especially right before bed. :D

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*glees at you*

Right before bed can be the tricky part, yes. :D:D:D

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I can't really think of a good fic for this right now, so meta instead?

A Roy Mustang who was born female would probably present as kind of butch. Not for sexual reasons, but I can't really picture her wearing her hair long or putting on skirts when she didn't have to. Also, people would probably look at her with less suspicion for going to Madam Christmas' place than if she were a habitual wearer of lipstick and heels -- oh, so she's like that, they would think, putting down any secrecy in visiting Madame Christmas' to not wanting to let on to her family or something like that.

I don't know if she'd be that different overall, really. Except perhaps there would maybe be a higher possibility of a Maes/Gracia/Roy threesome of fabulous Roy's personality in canon is largely based on his own actions, combined with the corruption of the government. Not so much on the societal pressures as the military ones, which are mostly "kill these people"-type orders. Maybe people would try to intimidate female!Roy more often by towering over her or something -- but I think her core personality would be the same.

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Heh! threesome of fabulous! This all seems right-on to me, though, hm, I can see a born female Roy being pretty adept with the heels and such when it was expedient.

Also, I would love to see her in the same room as Major General Armstrong!