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I have a headcanon that two specific characters from Twst are trans and, before anyone come at me saying that it’s “bullshit”, just hear me out.
The first one is Cater. He is very self-conscious about being the picture perfect person with all the cutesy things and we know that it’s something that was forced into him by his older sisters. I’ve also seen a fanart somewhere (I wouldn’t be able to find it for the life of me sorry) where the artist had drawn the first years as children and Cater was wearing a dress. Now, I don’t know if I read that as a headcanon somewhere or if it’s canon or if my sick twisted brain made that up, but I seem to remember that Cater’s sisters would also dress him up in cutesy dresses and whatnot? So I thought, what if Cater’s real name was actually Catherine and he’s the one who decided to cut it short in order to have a boy’s name instead of a girl’s one. And the treatment from his sisters is what made him realise really early on that he hated being a girl and he went through some intense gender dysphoria, because how do you explain to your family that you hate the pink dresses they buy you when you’re 6, you know? At some point before NRC, he was allowed to cut his hair shorter (but not boy short), which made it a bit easier for him and he didn’t have to wear dresses and skirts all the time while growing up. Still, he didn’t know how to tell his family that he didn’t like his name and, because of that, he just cringed on the inside every time they called him by his full (dead) name. Unfortunately for him, NRC being an all boys school, he was ripped out of the closet when he received his acceptance letter. Poor him woke up one day with both his parents waiting for him at the kitchen table with a suspicious looking black envelope. They sat him down and started asking questions which made him have one of the worst panic attacks he had ever had in his short life. He cried, because he thought his life was over and he would lose everything (i.e. his family), and they cried, because the realised their own son had never felt comfortable enough to be honest with them (worst feeling of failure for a parent really). It changed after that and Cater’s parents even helped him get medical treatment to start his transition. However, Cater’s relationship with his sisters was still tense. They accepted him as a boy of course, but they were still really intense on the cute picture perfect girly stuff. Because of that, even though he was out and confident with himself, he was still constantly masking and acting like someone else. Only Trey and Riddle, his closest friends, had seen him have a serious breakdown, because the stress was just too much for him and he couldn’t take it anymore. After that, they had been very careful to how Cater was feeling, looking for the very small details that showed he wasn’t well. They can’t really force him to get help and it’s not their place to talk about it with others, but at least they can try to make it easier on him.
The second one is Epel. He was out practically as soon as he could run around town. Some elderly had called him a ‘cute girl’ and he said, in his very blunt Felmier nature, that he didn’t like being a cute girl. He wanted to be a strong boy. And so, everyone had started calling him a boy. His parents would check with him, every couple of years, if he was still feeling like a boy and every time he would say yes. When he started school, his naturally small and cute body and face made other kids constantly call him girly, which made him get into many fights. He would always defend himself tooth and nail, up until the point he was called the ‘poison apple’ of Harveston. So, when he started puberty and his body started to change into a more feminine one, the whole family sat down and had a serious talk about where this was going. Epel voiced that he didn’t like the changes happening to his body, that it made him feel wrong and fake. Listening to his needs and wishes, Epel’s parents managed to get him on blockers, to stop his puberty from affecting him body too much. After that, it took some years before he could actually start his transition. This wasn’t because his parents didn’t want him to, just that Harveston is such a remote town that it was hard to get the medical process started. Everything was going well, until he was accepted in NRC. The next challenge had been Vil. He had fought so hard to be recognised as a boy and not be looked down on and, here he was, being judged by this random guy who thought he was better than him. When he ended up in Pomefiore, it was his worst nightmare. Now, he had to wear makeup and cute girly frilly stuff. He had to practice singing and dancing. So, one day, he had enough. He blew up at Vil when it was only the two of them in the dancing room, practising for the umpteenth time. Epel started screaming at him that he wasn’t a girl, calling him an asshole for treating him as such, for looking down on him just because he was born a girl. He was so upset he wasn’t in control of himself anymore, his legs giving out, crying so hard he could barely breath, his heart beating so fast he felt like he would die. And Vil stood there, waiting for him to just get it out of his system. And once Epel had calmed down and Vil could talk, he sat down with him and asked him if that was really out he perceived him. Vil told him that he never looked down on him because of anything, he was just hard on him because he knew he could take it, he knew he could be better. His wish had never been to cause him gender dysphoria or to make him feel like less of himself. He apologised for upsetting him so much, but told him that things wouldn’t change. Vil was set on not stopping until Epel was perfect, until Epel could best him in a fight. When that would happen, he knew he would have succeeded in creating the perfect poisoned apple. After that, Epel no longer felt like Vil was erasing him. But, he still hated all the work and stress he out him trough. He did have a relapse when practising for the SDC, but, having Deuce by his side made it easier on him.