AGONIZING ctl idea that I had a few years ago and just remembered: a trans guy is abducted by the fae as a depressed, closeted teen. when he returns as a changeling, now an adult who's becoming happy in his transition (despite all he's been through), he finds that the fetch they left in his place is nothing like him. she is the good daughter his parents always wanted, she is upwardly mobile and bright-smiling and respectable, she is everything he failed to be because he was himself. when the gentry took him and replaced him with this facsimile, his parents noticed nothing wrong β in fact, that was the moment their child started acting right. finally, she's let go of all her silly phases, she's not so closed-off and pointlessly defiant. they're a happy family now. if his parents learned the truth, if they could possibly believe it, would they even want him back? he turns away from his old home. he doesn't want to know. and neither do they.
