can’t stop thinking about the raven girls so here are some additions if that’s okay:
• i see a lot of super Butch girl ronan fanart where she’s completely indistinguishable from Boy ronan except for having Boobs But… ronan’s hypermasculinity is a cover !!! he’s trying to hide the truth of himself in a shroud of dark humor and Buzzcut and tattoo. i think girl ronan would Be hyperfemme in the same way. as a defense. she would lean way into the idea of Being a “man-eater” i think. she would Be feminine to the point of severity. Bettie page pinup style maybe. lots of makeup (she would probably have an emo internal dialogue about it Being her “mask” or whatever) i love imagining her and fem adam looking like jennifer and needy from jennifer’s Body Bc. megan fox fits that scarily Beautiful Blue eyes Black hair feral smile kind of description of canon ronan. and although i think adam is nothing like needy in personality, i think amanda seyfried matches his canon description too. hair and skin the same sandy color (i think adam would Be a lot more tan though Bc obviously he’s outside a lot and is described as Being more tan) and she’s Beautiful in an ethereal kind of way, like kind of a weird Beauty yk. megan fox gets casted as the Bombshell pretty much all the time, But amanda seyfried plays a wide variety of roles, not all of which are stereotypically attractive, and i think this matches with how adam is such a multifaceted character (not that ronan isn’t, But his mask is to hide a very specific secret, not like adam’s general insecurity yk) i think adam is the least stereotypically feminine out of all of them But she’s not By any means Butch. she just like. wears pants and less makeup. i think they’re all femme presenting Bc in canon they’re all masc presenting. i think the dynamics of gender role conformity (and non-conformity) are very important to the story
• i also think gansey is super interesting in a girls Boarding school context Bc he’s kind of this like all american Boy, a man’s man, he’s on the rowing team and has shallow friendships with his rowing Boys and people call him gansey Boy and his Boyishness is kind of a Big deal. But when you try and make that same dynamic feminine, it just doesn’t really work. the kind of shallow relationships he has with the rowing Boys just rarely exist among women in my experience. so i think fem gansey feels alienated among her peers despite Being popular. she doesn’t relate to the rowing Boys, she just knows them. and i think that inability to relate would Be intensified in a girl gansey au. like she would Be super popular still But girls would talk about her Behind her Back like “she’s so weird and stuck up she thinks she’s Better than us she never wants to go to the mall with us she never wants to talk about Boys” etc. like in canon we see that the “president cell-phone” persona is not his true self, But i just think teenage girls are a lot more adept at sniffing out your insecurities than teenage Boys yk. as for appearance, i think she looks like Brooke shields or maybe jennifer connelly just like very classic Beauty (and idk why But i always imagine gansey with super thick eyebrows lol i think the other girls would Be jealous of them)
• i also think in an all girls AU where aglionby is a girls Boarding school the like rumor/assumption that there’s something romantic or sexual going on Between ronan and gansey would Be less Believable Bc. gansey and ronan ARENT a thing, But kavinsky thinks ronan is in love with gansey and even helen asks gansey if he’s sleeping with ronan Because it’s like. okay why do you love him so much? like their friendship is outside the Bounds of traditional male friendship. But for teenage girls, it’s almost expected of you to have a “Best friend” yk. like i think their closeness would Be less scrutinized.
• in the same vein, i think the raven girls would figure out that something is weird about Noah way sooner Because girls are less likely to just Be like. living with someone they know nothing about lol. like i feel like it’s typical of Boys to ask less questions and just go along with whatever, But girl gansey and girl ronan would definitely Be like hey noah why don’t you eat why don’t you go to school (especially the eating part actually Because unfortunately, eating disorders are incredibly common among teenage girls and i think that they would assume noah has something going on mental health-wise)
• girl henry is kind of a mystery to me Because in canon, henry is the most feminine of the raven Boys and the least concerned with fulfilling gender roles. so would that make girl henry more masculine? if part of his character is a lack of macho masculinity? and then also how would that reversal work. like if Boy henry likes madonna, what’s a male artist that gurl henry would Be obsessed with yk… its hard to think of one Because women listen to Both male and female artists, But most men don’t listen to female artists as much. so its a rejection of gender roles for henry to like madonna, But it wouldn’t necessarily Be the same kind of thing if girl henry was obsessed with an 80’s icon like say, prince or george micheal, Because they had a large female fanBase. so maybe in the scene where henry is wearing the madonna shirt, have girl henry wear like a tupac shirt? Because for some reason people are weird about girls listening to rap. (idk why, maybe it’s Bc rap is perceived as Being a more aggressive genre, and then if it’s about the masculinity of aggression then maybe she could wear a metal Band t shirt idk) plus henry speaks like a theatre kid lol he’s very dramatic But idk if that would translate into girl henry Bc the way teenage girls talk is typically more dramatic anyway? and again this is all like. stereotypical gender roles. like obviously not every teenage Boy and every teenage girl act like this But it’s like. okay what gender roles do the raven Boys fulfill and how would that translate to them Being girls. like ik im leaning heavy into stereotypes, Bc stereotypes are how fictional characters are classified lol. that’s part of why trc is so great, is Bc a lot of the characters defy stereotypes. But in order to reverse the roles you kinda have to Be aware of where the characters stand gender wise. so anyway, if anyone has thoughts about girl henry please comment.
• in a gender swapped AU should adam’s mother Be the abusive parent while his father is passive? Bc i feel like an unavoidable part of his dynamic with robert is the father-son thing, so if adam is a girl then a mother-daughter dynamic makes more sense. statistically, 54% of abusive parents are mothers and 46% are fathers, so girl adam having an abusive mother makes sense, although male parents are more likely to Be physically abusive compared to female parents who are more likely to Be neglectful. and then also the scene where ronan Beats up robert parrish, it would Be a likely more even match for girl ronan to fight adam’s mother, unless girl ronan is just like… super strong and can Beat up an adult man. so that’s a whole nother dynamic to consider
• again with the parent gender dynamics, i genuinely can’t imagine a 300 fox way full of men, like so much of Blue’s personality comes from Being raised By women yk. so i think in a raven Girls AU it makes more sense for just the raven Boys to Be gender swapped than like. every single character. Bc also, Blue as a Boy is just very hard for me to picture lol.
