thinking again about pidge and the potential that could have come from the “i know you’re a girl.”
thinking about how she could have been a closeted trans girl, stuck in a limbo, convinced she’ll never be seen for who she is, and then those words change anything.
or maybe…
she could have chosen to give up everything else in her life to save matt, because he was the first one who saw her, who called her nicknames like little bird and pigeon when she hated her given name and who called her katie as easily as anything else from the moment she first told him.
or maybe…
she took a step back and hid, because the galaxy garrison doesn’t get many trans applicants and she knows they’ll be less likely to look into her under an assumed name. maybe that moment with allura let her realize she could save her brother and be his sister when she did it.
