Writing trans headcanons helps with my dysphoria so enjoy this long list
and some gross trans fluff I'll be posting later
I really, really love the fact that Deryn is canonly bigendered. And I always headcanoned Deryn as preferring to go by Dylan and Male pronouns.
And additionally I've always thought Alek would be trans and go by Sophia bc I'm trash.
Newkirk is gay, like, the reason he was actually on the Leviathan is bc his mother enrolled him in one of those "pray the gay away/manly muscle the gay away" programs
I will never get over the fact that Volger is canonly gay. Like this isn't a headcanon but I just love that this is fact and, theoretically in an alternate universe, I have a chance with him
Volger was in love with Franz don't fight me on this
Klopp never guess Deryn's "gender"- until being told the truth in Goliath he just kinda thought Alek was the homogay and he was ok w/ it shh do not fight me
Hans figured out Deryn's "gender" back when they were stuck on the glacier
Hans and Deryn have super brotp status relationship, he's just like an older brother to her
they play wrestle and play fight all the time
it makes Alek hella jealous
The A in Alek stands for Asexual
the A in dylAn stands for Asexual
srsly they're too busy flying around the world and doing stuff for the zoological society there is no time to do such things
Volger is secretly a huge cuddler
Volger finds love bc I'm OC/Canon trash also just old man loving trash and just trash in general with a man who's the head of one of the society's departments. A clanker-leaning Darwinist named Henry
Alek/Sophia looks rlly hella good in like a salmon-y-pink color
Deryn/Dylan looks through Alek's family tree/a hapsburg history book and stumbles upon Carlos II of Spain
upon which she refuses to have children
"I don't want to have flipper children!"
Flipper children means a child which suffers from being the product of incest
????? I'm sure there are like 100000000000000000 more somewhere
like lilit, I have so many for liit and OT3 stuff I can't remember atm
tagging bc luna u need to be apart of this hot mess express
Deryn's section in band is the Baritones
they never dance or do anything fun in the section just sit there in boredom
No one knows Deryn is a girl but everyone knows she and Alek are dating
this is thanks to a certain bum-rag student news paper worker who made his headline a picture of Deryn and Alek snogging
Lillit is president of the GSA/LGBTQ club
Everyone in school, deciding to be supportive of their friend and soccer captain elect Dylan and Alek as homecoming kings
Well Deryn, assuming they've figured out her secret lets her mother pick her homecoming dress and do her makeup
when she shows up at the dance everybody thinks it's Dylan pulling a gag
"And the 2014 homecoming queen is...Deryn Elizabeth Sharp and her King Aleksander Ferdinand"
awkward dead silence
mummers through the crowd
Deryn taking the mic and thanking them for being so supportive but calling them all daft gits then dropping the mic
Jaspert clapping all proudly and hollaring "Yeah! That's my sister!!"
"Oh, now you claim me jaspert!!"
Deryn had a bad emo/scene phase freshman year and Jaspert refused to claim her as one of his, vehemently denying the fact that he had a sister or any sort of sibling
This phase was bad as in faux-temporary black hair die, band t-shirt, and faux gauges from claire's
it's also because of this phase that Volger refers to Deryn/Dylan as "the devil child" whenever alek brings him up
ernst my husband ends up finding someone via his conservation efforts who also happens to work at the zoological society. When he initially brings him over for the annual Christmas dinner (which yes, includes klopp, bauer and hoffman) Only Alek seems to be out of the loop about their relationship...everybody else just kinda guessed
This mans name maybe or may not be Gabriel shush u face don't judge me
Deryn gets to be super good friends with Barlow's two kids, and she eventually becomes like another kid to Barlow
Alek is a huge dork and needs glasses
Deryn refuses to have children with Alek upon seeing Carlos the second of Spain in his family tree
Alek tries to prove to Deryn that he's very very very distantly related to him
"Deryn, please, we're not even from the same branches! I'm holy roman empire!"
Lillit marries Jaspert bc cliches are so important to the nature of everything good in the universe
The Leviathan relands in London about two years later, most of the in-series crew still serving on it in addition to Fitzroy. They decide to look up Alek and Dylan to see how they're fairing
Long story short they walk in on a very steamy shirtless/almost pantless makeout session on Barlow's desk
the incident ends in Barlow getting a new desk and Deryn/Dylan being outed