Chapter 3 of Where Falling Stars Live is now live!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Heads up for she/her pronouns used for Kieran going forwards (for now), they're AFAB in this and just fell from the sky. Gonna take a bit to get that head back on their shoulders to speak up about things. But nobody is malicious about any misgendering, if the doctor says it's a girl who are they to argue? Especially when said girl just rolls with it.
Nobody who matters is really going to care when they inevitably speak up about a preference; the clans in particular have some religious thoughts about gender. Their framework for "gender roles" are based off of the roles of their deities, aka the nobles. So Pearl Clan for example holds Lady Sneasler up as an ideal example of true womanhood lmao. They have traditions of converted gender so as long as you are performing your duties sufficiently expected of that role then it's whatever so long as you're useful.
Plus Akari (Kieran) is young and doing some sacred tasks like quelling their nobles. Kid's practically as shaman in their eyes, very folklore hero coded, they can be whatever they want and look cute while doing it too.