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#he makes me so bloody miserable #imagine him watching people being prosecuted and attacked for being gay and just #watching.#not knowing hes gay and seeing this as an outsider but just #understanding it #knowing its wrong #wrong to like men and to attack people for liking men #i feel ILL #edwin payne #edwin pain #edwin dbd #edwin dead boy detectives #dead boy detectives #dead boy detective netflix #dbda #car seat headrest #csh #beach life in death

might I be permitted to know more about Arthur’s Gender Stuff TM?

YES ^_^

Were Arthur to have a 2025 understanding of gender and labels, he would use they/she/he pronouns and identify with the labels transneutral, transfeminine, bigender, agender, and/or genderfluid. or, like, be accurately described by them, anyway. Arthur herself would probably say "nonbinary" and move on. A public transition of theirs would probably include going by she/they to those they don't know, but privately prefering loved ones mix up pronouns equally. a sort of "i really do still identify as a man (especially a queer man) and it's an important part of my gender but i don't trust random people not to erase my identity" classic bigender problem.

in-story, Arthur is raised in a hyper masculine and repressive environment with the groomed intention of essentially being his father 2.0. their mother wants them to be exactly as controllable but exactly as violent, and both parents find repressive gender roles a good way to make sure arthur's feelings (in general, not just gender related) are never expressed or examined. male intimacy, gender nonconformance, and general emotional closeness beyond sex are discouraged. because of this, just as it takes him about a million years to accept his queer attraction to Alexei, it takes him equally as long to acknowledge a nonbinary gender. the closest she gets in the first 20 years of her life is with alexei, who is a fan of nonconformance in general, and encourages exploration of anything (though alexei also doesnt really have an understanding of "gender identity" as a concept beyond the fact he himself is a man, and doesn't think about it much).

Rosalind (an intersex woman) and Orion (a nonbinary person) just like, existing and being themselves, definitely make Arthur understand gender and bodies better. but at the same time she's scared, because she always is; the idea of being both a *WOMAN* (transfemininity) and being *NOT JUST A MAN* (transneutrality & bigenderism) are both world-shattering in her old life. i think her relationship with rosalind (which feels gay, just like alexei) and how content orion seems being themself forces him to think a lot harder about it all.

im not actually sure where im going to have her be at about it at the end though? i want it very clear they aren't a cis man, but also for it to be understood that *any* binary labeling of arthur's gender is lacking, but i don't know how developed their own understanding will be. im definitely going to put in that they start dressing and like acting (in a cultural sense) more androgynously.

ty for the question ^_^

#asks #arthur #arthur wip #gender is a big like 'quiet theme' in arthur wip. where its not shoved in your face that its about gender #but its like..... men and masculinity and expectations of manhood and the inherent nonconformance of transness are very important to #understanding it

what the hell is the episode1 all about, so much happened in one episode and i am still stuck absorbing what i just watched,, oop if this gets more chaotic in the next episode i would be in sHAMBLESSSSSSSSSSS😭😭✋🏻