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Welcome, to

Stranger Headcanons: woke edition

By me.

(I’ll explain or leave links to the definitions of some identities but not to all so if you don’t know something - look it up; I personally love learning new queer labels so much^^)

I think it’s quite common when a queer person tends to headcanon a lot of characters as a flavour of the specific type of queer they themselves are. For example, I’ve seen a lot of transmascs headcanon characters as transmasc, aspecs headcanon chars as aspecs and etc.

And well maybe it does mean something that I, as a non-binary genderfluid pal not too far away from faer agab, tend to make my blorbos pretty genderqueer without putting them too far away from their agab👾 I almost don’t have binary trans headcanons😭 Not in Stranger Things anyway

Also an important note before we proceed,

Absolutely not all of the qenderqueer hcs/thoughts are something that I consider seriously and permanently and/or believe might actually be canon; most of them are just silly little funny thoughts that I like to think about sometimes when I’m feeling woke and wouldn’t really apply to canon and see the canon through their lens or put in a serious discussion whatsoever; you’ll prolly be able to see which hcs are just for funsies and which aren’t really

My hcs also fluctuate a lot lol, and some of the things I’ve written here will probably become outdated (as a reflection of my hcs) after some time, because everything about me is fluid omg im a liquid

Anyway, let’s start.

Woker Things

✨Jane Hopper✨

Sexuality: aceflux heteroflexible

Gender: afab transfem girlflux

Pronouns (hc, doesn’t mean I will use hc prns for chars here): she/any

Reasoning/propaganda: okay so actually hear me out on this one bc a person here on tumblr @/caipaw (paw/paws) wrote about afab transfem Jane hc in paws post almost a year ago but I saw it recently and now I’m obsessed with it

It’s not even just because one of the definitions of transfem is being trans and feminine in some way and as I also hc Jane as girlflux that means she’s also non-binary and therefore trans + she’s feminine, it’s not because of that

It’s because, since she was raised in a lab with all of her autonomy stripped away from her and barely any sense of self identity and no normal social experiences, I really believe Jane had a unique and very interesting relationship with girlhood and femininity which she only embraced much later. When she first meets the outside world, she’s not even perceived fully as a girl and often mistaken for a boy; even when she lived with Hopper till s2 she didn’t express herself femininely both bc there probably wasn’t a possibility and she didn’t know that you could, yk, like your clothes and show urself through them. S2 El looks so androgynous she actually lowkey gives me gender envy😔 But when she gets to actually explore herself and express herself the way she wants, she chooses to be feminine. All of this is so transfem coded experience. She’s basically my favourite example of perisex afab transfem.

Yeah and I also feel like El has something agenderish going on sometimes too, so girlflux fits like it was destined for her. I don’t think she’d notice anything queer about sometimes feeling like a girl and sometimes not feeling like anything, at least not until when she’d be much older (💔💔💔)

🎨Will Byers🎨

Sexuality: gay demirose

Gender & comments: unfortunately my lovely firstborn son is kinda too cis😔 well, I could also see him as a demiboy or something like that for example; maybe he fluctuates between feeling perfectly like a boy and not fully a boy sometimes, and since demiboy is a non-binary identity - enbyspike (definition at https://www.tumblr.com/mogai-sunflowers/718499761807867904/enbyspike-flag) we go. He's also kind of gender non-conforming, especially by the standards of the environment that he was raised in (just like the love of his life Mike tbh). That doesn't mean I see him as a “femboy”, or even dressing fem at all, idk, okay? Gender nonconformity isn't just about clothes, it’s also about gender roles and expectations and other

Pronouns: he/him

You can see how many fluctuating identities there are in my hcs... I wonder if that might tell something about me....... Haha.............

🎲Mike Wheeler✏️

Sexuality: into MEN, I decided to settle on the word gay

Gender: genderfluid, specifically genderfaunet! And also GNC like his gorgeous husband Will. If anything, not genderfaun, but genderfaunet! It's when you're genderfluid but never fully a binary girl! You can feel partially or even mostly like a girl but not fully!

Pronouns: would be pronounfluid between he/they/she

Reasoning/propaganda/comments: in s4 Mike looked so genderqueer that people started to hc him as genderqueer fr. And for me it started, like a lot of things, as a joke, but now genderfluid Mike hc is kind of so dear to me. I can separate it from canon and also think of him as cis, but genuinely, when you look at this person:

Do you see a 100% cisgender white man?? Because I don't

They de-estrogenised him after s4 and especially in the epilogue, rip s4 girlmike you’ll forever be missed

It's not like I'm saying that my hcs or ANY hcs at all are canon bc they aren't and that's why they are hcs! But it's really interesting to think that Mike, a boy in the eighties, canonically knew how to do make-up at the age of twelve (doing it for El in s1). It makes me think that he and Nancy might have used to have fun with doing make-up for each other when they were younger and closer; Mike also had something like a vanity mirror or whatever it’s called on his nightstand in s4 (I saw a tumblr post a while ago pointing that out on a behind the scenes photo or smth), and his most genderqueer looking was at the time when he was looking up to Eddie who was a freak and completely unashamed of it. I can see Mike longing for the possibility to express himself more androgynously or feminine sometimes but pushing it really deep inside as we all know how he treats his queerness. He would feel perfectly fine as a guy at times but when he wouldn't, gender dysphoria would be quite a menace and so would severe internalised transphobia. My child is so insecure about not being “normal”✌😭

And regarding sexuality, when I think about it I'm not sure if his love and attraction to Will would feel more straight or more turigirl-ish for him when he'd feel more like a girl; the label I decided to go with is just gay/vincian, because since there are genderfluid lesbians there are also genderfluid vincians.

🛹Max Mayfield🎧

Sexuality: bisexual

Gender: genderfluid, maybe not through the whole gender spectrum but idk, maybe specifically something like genderfrith (https://pin.it/3ZIHQAVzI) + kinda gnc

Pronouns: she/he

Comments: this is mostly for funsies but not entirely and yeah the bisexual thing is pretty serious and many people would agree with it (I don’t exactly ship elmax but oh do I get the appeal)

📷Jonathan Byers🎥

Sexuality: bi or pan or something

Gender: non-binary and specifically a masc-presenting boygirl, or maybe even a butchy transfem 🤔 I'd need to think more about it, i lean more towards different things at different times. Actually I can see Jonathan as literally anything including unaligned non-binary I don’t even know what to pick omg lol

Some people also like to hc him as transmasc and unfortunately it's completely impossible in the canon for many reasons, but just as a vibe or in a more modern au it could also be like, yeah why not

Pronouns: not sure. Smth like he/they/ze/hir or any/all or actually I don’t know

Reasoning/comments: this is totally mostly just for funsies BUT what made me go into this is a) vibes, and b) a post I saw about jancy how in the end of s3 when they are saying goodbyes and kissing, the post said that Jonathan's kissing like he's the girl and I couldn't quite stop thinking about it. He's indeed really babygirl

✏️Dustin Henderson📚

Sexuality: hetero & greyrose cupiorose

Gender (and sex): intersex and boyflux

Pronouns: he/it

Propaganda/comments: even though Dustin had a puppy crush on Nancy in s1 and then on Max in s2 and then there was Suzie he has such severe aroacespec vibes I just can’t so he’s totally cupiorose (and greyrose yeah). And I don’t know how to reason the intersex & boyflux thing because it’s so heavily just on vibes but I’m like so serious about it. Like for me it’s just what fits for him the most, I feel his headcanon gender identity like it’s mine (well, the same goes for some other characters here)

🌿Argyle🍕 (why doesn’t he have a last name😭)

Sexuality: 100% pansexual like have you seen him

Gender: previously I’ve considered libramasculine or agender but for now I’ve settled on something like nxnbinary bxy (definition at https://pin.it/2K3HfaFOS) and maybe also intersex

Pronouns: he/they

🎧Robin Buckley🔥

Sexuality: lesbian (obviously); and also (as far as I know that term didn’t exist until the nineties but) when you look at her she’s canonically so futch.

Gender: demigirl

Pronouns: she/they/shey