selfship oc fanart!!!! :3
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ok, so they’re nonbinary but their gender assigned at birth was female, and their fem! name is Aphrodite Caesar. They also have a masc! name which is Apollo Caesar, I’m still thinking of a middle name tho
ummm, so, they’re a composer, conductor, singer, violinist, pianist, guitarist, somewhat artist, and women’s rights activist. Yep, they do all of that and still have time to drink a cup of joe :]
they’re Italian, British? And maybe a little Russian????? Idk, lol :3 oh, and did I forget to mention that they speak many different languages? They speak Italian, French, English and a bit of Russian too!
at the beginning of their career as a musician, they had to dress up as a guy and cut their hair very short so that their work wouldn’t be overlooked like most of other female musicians’ works, this was also advice that they took from their eldest and only brother (who was also a conductor) before he died. He said this to them because he cared for her carrier and her future.
they would later like and adopt the stance of having no gender or label, because of this, when their manager would reveal her identity as a “woman” people would criticize them and call them a “witch” and a “demon”. People would also call them that for other reasons before the press really knew the they were a woman, this reasons being for their extraordinary talent as a pianist and violinist, basically almost as good as pags, this would become one of the main reasons as to why at first Pags and Aphie would become rivals (this rivalry would be between them as their more masculine sides)
Aphie would as well meet Pags as a woman because Aphie would frequently volunteer as a sort of “maid” at some of the inns that they would encounter while in tours to earn a bit of extra money. And as coincidentally one of those times, Pags would check in to one of the inns the Aphie would stay in and volunteer in. They would have to be very careful in those three weeks that they stay at inn, for they were handling being a woman and a man at the same time. but how did Paganini not know that Aphie was her biggest rival/crush and her crush at the same time? well, the answer was makeup. But not just simple makeup, they learned a thing or two about makeup and of how to make themselves look feminine or masculine. And this would work especially well because their face was pretty androgynous (as one may see, I tried to make them look as androgynous as possible).
As Aphie would work at the inn and become Apollo at night, they would soon find out that Pags was non binary (basically how that went down was that Aphie would forget something in Pags’ room, they would bust in to her room only to find that Pags was wearing a simple dress - the one that they found some days prior in pags room while cleaning the rooms up, even though Pags claimed that the dress had only belonged to a woman that she had romanced a day ago) Pags would now be wearing that dress in front of them, with makeup on as well. She would confess timidly that she liked feminine things as she would quietly break down crying. Aphie would comfort her and both of them would become good friends, Pags would invite them to accompany her in her tour and they gladly accepted.
Something that is important to note is that Pags would have a crush on both of Aphie’s fem and masc sides and vice versa for Aphie. But the only thing is, is that Aphie would know about pag’s both fem and masc sides, and pags would not. they would briefly meet each other as children, I’ll get more in depth on that once I make the full version of their story.
welp, all of that is simply just a rough draft of what Aphie’s story would look like. Though, as I said, I will get more in detail and depth in their life and backstory when I complete the fanfic of them.
the fanfic will be posted in tumblr so :3
I’m so happy with how they turned out, and I hope you guys like them just as much as I do!!! :3
side note: I’m srry if they sound like a Mary sue, I made Aphie when I was like nine or eight and thorough out the years I’ve been changing their story according to how I think it would sound best and as well as me learning new info about pags, so yeah, I’m so sorry about that😭
(but don’t worry, they have pretty bad unresolved childhood trauma so, I guess they aren’t much as a Mary sue?????)
I can’t think of any ship names or emoji combos so you guys can maybe leave some ideas for me if possible (no pressure tho!!!)
some fun facts:
• they were born on October 30th, 1782
•they are around the same height as Paganini
•they were the fourth child out of six children
•they were born in Genoa, Italy
ok I’m gonna go try to sleep so good night gng🥹✌️