Anonymous Coward · 1d
some Thea related questions!!! (sorry if these have been answered before)
1. what is Thea’s relationship to transmasculinity? what was the closest she has ever gotten to cracking her transmasc egg?
2. is she the type to recognize her transness but represses it? or the type to assume hating Being A Woman is innate to all women and doesn’t think much more of it?
3. what would transmasc!Thea’s name be, specifically for au’s where the trans realization happens much later in life or co-exists with Cy as a sibling?
4. how would transmasc!Thea feel about (cis) men? would he still hate them, or would the feelings change upon transition?
I think the biggest obstacle to someone realizing they're transmasc in the 80's-90's was simply... not knowing trans men were a thing. Even back when I was growing up, it was still such an invisibilized concept, I didn't even know it was something someone could do/be.
So, for Thea, I have the feeling it'd be a 0 or 100 thing, either he's made aware trans men are a thing and can never put that truth back in his own personal Pandora's box, or Thea lives the rest of her life woefully unaware of where she could have taken it.
If Thea were to transition, I think he'd be the kind to go to his mom and ask her "what would you have named me, had I been born a boy", so chances her he would've gone with Cyrus anyway! That, or either his middle name (Walter) or "Victor". It seems like the kinda name he'd give himself.
As for how he'd feel about cis men... Immense envy but cautious wariness mostly. He knows they have what he wants and are squandering it, but he also knows they could hurt him beyond repair. This version of Cy/Thea would be extremely well guarded, more than his cis self. Many superficial friendships, pretty much no genuine ones. His one confidant would expectedly be Lynn.
