#just non-binary things

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Not that I’m ever a fan of being gendered for the sake of products, but sometimes it truly is a bewildering requirement. Pray tell, why does my cat’s automatic feeder need me to tell it if I’m a boy or a girl??

[aromantic-enjolras]

Random person at a gathering: you can’t have more than one gender! That’s not how it works!

Bahorel, pointing behind them to where Feuilly is standing: sure I can. Feuilly gave me his.

[aromantic-enjolras]

Is there anything more affirming as a GNC person than an enby friend seeing your outfit and going “yes, that is extremely gender”? I don’t think so.

[aromantic-enjolras]

I humbly ask for "everything is good and nothing hurts" headcanons for Gavroche because those were MEAN

To anyone wondering why my dear pumpkinspice is calling me mean, I wrote a post of headcanons for Gavroche in answer to @juliensorelisoverparty and.... they were not nice. Here you have the post if you're curious. I don't make myself responsable for any broken hearts.

Here you have a bunch of nice headcanons to make you forgive me! ^^

Gavroche and Enjolras don't have a good relationship. Well, to be precise, when Gavroche went with the Amis to his first picket line, he wanted a banner, and Enjolras answered that "when we have enough for the grown-ups, we'll start giving them to the children". Gavroche fired back with "big words from a guy who doesn't even shave yet" and left him standing there gaping as he went to find one. Enjolras will deny it until the day he dies, but it still smarts. He treats him with a cold detachment, and Gavroche finds it hilarious and doubles down every time he can.

He has saved the Amis' hides in multiple ocassions. He knows Paris like the palm of his hand, and several times when they were running from the cops he has gone "follow me!" and pull such a labyrinthine route that they've lost the pigs almost immediately.

When Éponine turned sixteen, she got her independence from her parents and immediately started the legal battle to get custody of Gavroche. It was really easy, because the Thénardiers didn't give enough of a fuck to actually fight for him. Which, is sad, yes, but also, thank God, because her only legal help was some Law students who were in the same political club as her crush Marius, and they weren't really that good... (Yes, this is my origin story for how Éponine got involved with the Amis)

He was Grantaire's dealer for a while. When Éponine discovered it she almost burst a coronary that her friend was encouraging Gavroche's dealings with Montparnasse. "I'm trying to get him out of that world, R! What's so hard to understand!!"

When he got out of that house, he had a lot of homophobic, sexist preconceptions coming from having only M. Thénardier and Montparnasse as his male role models. He changes his mind after meeting Bahorel, because they are an absolute badass on every one of his criteria, while also embracing their feminine side with no shame. If Bahorel can use she/her pronouns and wear corsets and makeup, why couldn't he?

He's not really a good student. He's the class clown, always cracking jokes and making fun of the teachers. He also packs a mean punch thank to Bahorel and Grantaire, and although he's not very fond of violence, he does use his popularity and a certain threatening aura if needed be to take new, bullied or visibly queer kids under his wing. All the outcasts know they can count of him if need be, and most of them are his friends already.

He loves parkour and he's quite good at it. He has a moderately famous Youtube channel where he uploads his stunts, actually. He also uploads covers from time to time, because he loves singing. Éponine wasn't very keen on the idea of him putting himself out there so much, so the compromise they ended up with is that he never shows his face.

He teaches parkour to the kids he "adopts" if they show any interest in it. The entire gang have their own channel, and even though they have a smaller following than his official channel, the ones they have are very dedicated. As their philosophy is that everyone is welcome, they are a lot more diverse than your usual parkour groups, and their fans really appreciate it.

When he was in his "Bahorel is so fucking awesome" duckling phase, he identified as non-binary for a while. He grew out of it, but as he gets older he's starting to play around and experiment with gender for his own sake and not just to imitate his idol.

I hope you like them! <3

[aromantic-enjolras]

do you have bahorel headcanons ?? i always really love your characterizations of les amis and id love to see what you have for him in like one post

Oooh, do I have Bahorel headcanons... Honestly, Bahorel may be the Ami I have more headcanons of apart from Enjolras. You don't know what you're asking for. Strap on for a long post!

Most of these (but not all) I have already talked about, they are augmented versions of a post where someone asked for non-binary!Bahorel headcanons, so if they sound familiar, that's why...

Bahorel comes from a family of farmers from a small town in the Pyrenees. They have a really, really strong Southern accent; now that they've lived in Paris for a few years it's gone a bit softer, but when they first arrived it was really really hard to understand. Even now, whenever they get drunk it comes back out. In those cases, the best option is calling Marius to be the official translator.

When they were young, they didn't really realize they weren't cis; being something else just wasn't an option. The only people they knew who sometimes played with gender were some seasonal workers, but they also took ketamine and made their own alcohol under their beds in their cars, so it wasn't really tempting to be like them.

They are the first person in their family to go study in the big city. Their family was very proud of them when they got accepted in Law in Paris; their mom spent months telling everyone who might listen about how her little Marcel was going to be a lawyer! Wasn't it marvellous?

One of the first people they meet in Paris is Jehan, who is already really comfortable in his gender expression. It's a revelation. What do you mean, you don't have to be a man and be manly?? It's by experimenting with gender and presentation with Jehan that they realize that they might actually just... not be a man, in fact.

They go a bit overboard in the other direction for a while, because non-binary people have to be androgynous, don't they? They shaved their beard, they started using crop tops and skirts, they painted their nails... It didn't feel right, either. So now they have grown back a bushy beard and dress like your usual lumberjack. It's just more comfortable and more practical. They do have an impressive collection of corsets for special occasions, though. Most of them are presents from Jehan, who knows all the best corset-makers, and loves giving gifts to his friends. You should see them at Pride.

Physically, I headcanon them as being very tall, kind of lanky (they have muscle, but they look more wiry than bulky), with a reddish-brown beard, a hot pink floppy mowhawk and big hands that always have dirt beneath very short nails (one of the first things they did after arriving to Paris was finding a communal garden, they need to have their hands in dirt regularly or they'd go crazy in the jungle of concrete that is the capital).

They try to laugh it off, because they understand where people are coming from, but it still hurts a lot when they go to an LGBT+ event with Jehan and people immediately assume that they're cis and that Jehan is non-binary. Cis-straight people assuming gender presentation equals gender identity is one thing, but their own people...it hurts.

They absolutely hate Law. Their motto is "never a lawyer". They actually love working with their hands, and they would love to inherit their parents' farm and spend the rest of their life getting up at five in the morning and working the fields all day. They do feel guilty about spending all their parents' money in sending them to Paris, but there is a catch: stopping would mean going back home, and living in their home town would mean going back to the closet. They are out to their immediate family, and while their little sisters do make an effort, their parents deal with the issue mostly by pretending it doesn't exist. And that's probably what would happen in general. The town works on a "don't ask don't tell" policy, and they don't know if they could do that anymore.

Bahorel is a person of actions, more than theory. They can't quote Marx to you like Enjolras or Combeferre can, but they know what they want the world to be, and they will stop at nothing to get there. If you need someone to protect a queer person at night, or to put posters up at three in the morning, or to charge the police so that the weaker people in a demonstration have time to escape, or to go break the windows of a restaurant that hasn't payed their waiters, Bahorel is your... well, your non-binary person. They also know a lot about how to protect yourself from the police, both in legal terms and in practical attire.

They do have a lot of opinions about non-violent action being considered the best course of action. As they will tell you if you mention the subject, violence is the best and more efficient weapon the opressed have (”those fuckers don’t give a fuck about us, but they do about their precious legs”), and renouncing to it is throwing away most chances of winning for no good reason. After all, self-defense is justified, isn’t it? And what is the state, and the patriarchy, and white supremacy, and capitalism, and all those things, if not systemic violence? Any mention of non-violent movements who won will just prompt them to tell you of all the violent movements working at the same time that The System wants you to forget. And if you complain about property destruction when people’s dignity is on the line...

Antifa and proud. They are in a queer black bloc.

Apart from Jehan, their best friend in the Amis is Feuilly. They ocasionally meet up to play pétanque with some of Feuilly’s coworkers, and Bahorel is the first person Feuilly calls if he needs to vent about something. They also make a lot a lot of stupid bets. They rarely bet money, more often than not going for betting on who will pay for an activity to do together. Feuilly is pretty careful, and only bets when he’s reasonably sure to win, which means that they end up owing him a bunch of stuff, but they don’t mind. If that’s what takes for Feuilly to do stuff he wants to do but have no money to, without feeling bad for letting them pay, they will make as many stupid bets as needed. And every time they do win they lord it over Feuilly’s head for months.

As Feuilly is in the closet about his gender at work, sometimes they meet at Bahorel and Jehan’s place in the week-ends and go on what they collectively call “their gender-fuckery benders”. What goes on in them is the matter of legends. Feel free to add your headcanons on what happens there.

They aren’t really sexually attracted to men, making them the only non-ace member of the Amis to be so. They’ve been told once of twice that they “aren’t queer enough” for queer groups, “because they’re basically cis-straight”, but the person in question had the bad luck of saying it in hearing range of Jehan, and... let’s just say: if you aren’t afraid of Jehan, you should.

I’m pretty sure I’m forgetting some, but this is already waaaaay too long, so I’m going to publish it anyway. Hope you like them! ^^

[aromantic-enjolras]

I was thinking... Gnc and trans people out here, what is your favourite anecdote of creating gender what-the-fuckery?

Mine is one time I put on my favourite dress and my rainbow tights, and when I was waiting for the bus a woman passed by with a little boy (he couldn’t be any more than five or six) who immediately cried “look mom, that man has the most pretty tights!” and I had to decide whether to throughouly enjoy the mom embarrassedly trying to explain to her son that not everybody with short hair was a man or to explain to the mom that not everybody who wears dresses is a woman.

[aromantic-enjolras]

JEHAN BC I LOVE HIM AND I KNOW YOU DO TOO

I really do!! <3 I have a few, actually...

Well, the first song that comes to mind is definitely 'Si se calla el cantor', by Horacio Guaraní, in the version by Mercedes Sosa. Because @my-life-as-a-reader talked me into viewing this song as a mourning anthem for Jehan ('If the singer shuts up, life shuts up with them') and now I can't unhear it. :(

Also, in the same vein of songs about political art, 'Cantor de Oficio' by Mercedes Sosa ('If I belong to the people, my song too will be only of the people').

On a different note, 'Girl or Boy', by Dani Shay. Because whether or not you headcanon Jehan as non-binary, what's certain is that he has dealt with people asking him that question for his entire life. ('Is that a lady or is that a man? Times have changed, and lines are blurred and I don't understand!')

And of course, Bahorel's ringtone for him in my Bahorel & Jehan fic... 'San Francisco (be sure to wear some flowers in your hair)' by Scott McKenzie. ^^

[aromantic-enjolras]

💛 🏳️‍⚧️ for Feuilly

💛- Brotp

Honestly, out of all the Amis, Feuilly is the one I see more as a separate entity, probably because it's the only one who's not a student. So my BrOTP is probably "Feuilly and the older guys in his factory's union". I just want to see him get adopted by older activists. <3

Out of the Amis, I really like the dynamic between him and Bahorel, and also I can see him and Jehan having a kind of "book club" friendship.

And then, of course, Cosette. Foster kids solidarity! :)

🏳️‍⚧️- Gender headcanon

The correct term would probably be some shade of agender (he has exactly zero feelings about his gender, one way or the other), but he has taken a long look at it and decided that his life is already hard enough without adding another layer of discrimination to it. The guys at work are nice, but they're also kind of old-fashioned and very hetero-normative. So he just uses he/him pronouns and lives his life as a cis man, and keeps his gender experimentation to the week-ends at Jehan and Bahorel's.

He is very careless about the way he uses gendered words on himself, though. French is not his first language, gendering stuff is hard, so if someone catches him saying he's feeling "pretty" today, or calling himself a lady? "Yeah, not my first language".