Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-10860529-20141107042854/@comment-27.252.202.220-20141223064114

@Bug: I've only read the first book, sadly, but I'm glad that Lizzie/Cedar has material to write shipping on in the third book! Not a fan of Raven/Cerise, personally, mainly because Raven/Apple and Cerise/Daring will forever have my heart.

I'm glad you brought up Akito! I think it was a good choice making him trans, and it definitely helps to develop his royal-rebel identity.

On the topic of trans guys, I might as well bring up Hyacinth Flowers. He grew up thinking that he would just take after his mother's florist shop and become a fairytale backgrounder, but ended up recieving an invitation to Ever After High. Apparently, he was to take the role of the prince in The Snow Queen.

When he got the letter, I think it would have only discovered that he was trans quite recently? So he would have found the letter really really comforting, because not only did it acknowledge that he was a guy, even though he was assigned female at birth, but it acknowledged that he was smart and worthy enough to be the prince in the Snow Queen, one of the most famous fairytales ever. So obviously, that was quite a bit of a sense of pride for him.

I don't really know why I made him trans, I just wrote down "trans prince in the Snow Queen" down one day, and making an EAH OC out of the idea never really left me. Not only was making Hyacinth a way of making my lineup of OCs more diverse, but him being trans is actually pretty relevant to the fairytale, and this generation's adaption of it, so to speak.

Because, in the Snow Queen, the princess doesn't want to marry, and when she's forced to marry, she only marries the prince because she admires his cleverness, not because he's rich or handsome (although I bet that the prince was probably hella handsome). The prince was seen was undesirable because of his class, not because of his personality, just as trans people are sometimes seen as undesirable even by other members of the queer community.

In my version of the next Snow Queen generation, the next Kai is a girl, more specifically Klara Spiegel. When Hyacinth is going to be travelling around Norway, he wouldn't have the time to put on makeup in order to pass, and he would have let his hair grow long (as according to the tale). And despite wearing a binder and traditionally masculine clothes, he would still be misgendered as a girl by some people, including the Raven who talks to Gerda.