#detta

A neogender umbrella characterized by the song Bernadette by IAMX.

- it may relate to first loves and devotional love, romanticizing a relationship that has long ended or reminiscing a relationship one once had.

- to the genre of dark cabarets, emotional melancholy, writing songs & poetry for those or in the memory of those you love.

- I may also relate to escapism and dark academia aesthetics.

But it doesn't have to!

— terminology —

Gender term: Bernaden

Gender alignment term: Bernic

Gender quality term: Bernisity/bernisine/bernisi

Gender in nature term: BERNIN; Bernadettien-in-nature

Trans terms: trans Bernisity / Bernaden - one who is transitioning towards Bernisity / Bernaden gender

Juvelic term: Veilian

Individual term: Nadette

Minor individual term: Detta

Adult individual term: Berna

Notes; the symbol & flag has been made by @dragonpride17 ! Link to flag post & PSD

3.2025. // Feel free to ignore/ask to be untagged from future posts + this through comments or asks! (Y'all only get the month, bc nobody remembers when this was specifically coined lol)

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— by the graveyard's keeps; Stray.

[Image Description: Fanart of Detta Yao and Kho Phon Farrus from the Doctor Aphra comics. Detta is a human woman with warm brown skin, dark brown eyes, and bright turquoise, somewhat wavy hair. She is wearing black and white clothes and a white headband. Kho is a non-binary person with pale blue skin and dark pupils with bright yellow sclera. Their hair is vibrant pink and purple, with long bangs covering one eye, and a long braid past their waist. They are wearing dark robes with golden jewelry, and blue and pink eye makeup.]

Itsy bitsy Detta...

Sorry for the long photoset, folks. Had a hard time deciding what shots to use. 

Found this from a really old skype convo and the answer is YES

+ they spend a lot of time together early on after Detta’s rescued because the medics have to intervene immediately to halt her “customization” process so she won’t grow up to have the same issues DT has. She had to spend nights in Bell Town’s little makeshift hospital while that was going on and Bolt just spent the night there too in the closest empty bed because at that point Detta was still really little and she was worried about her being alone. And I think eventually like...maybe not the very first night but by the end of that stint Bolt was reading bedtime stories and tucking her in and kissing her goodnight every time and it was really Something for both of them, another reminder that now there was a place where they could have these experiences (childhood, motherhood) that were denied to them in the outside world

+ It was also during that stint that the thing of Bolt promising her dresses she couldn’t necessarily deliver happened and Detta most likely fully realized the extent to which she could wrap Bolt around her finger (Shade: Why are you dyeing gunpowder bags pink? Bolt: Because I’ve lost control of my life)

+ Once she was all recovered from surgery and whatnot Detta would just follow Bolt around and chat up anybody she happened to interact with and a thing about Bolt’s battle-medic demeanor is that she has a really deadpan sense of humor about how bare-bones and whelp-this-is-better-than-nothing the whole operation is but of course this was all right after the factory liberation so like can you imagine being in a battle and coming to a week after and the person in charge of treating you shows up with this tiny child in tow like “this is detta she’ll be assisting us today” and the tiny child is like “hi. did you kill anybody”

+ After that Detta usually sees Boltie almost every day basically but it’s like a trip to grandma’s house every time. All the medical stuff she has to go through sucks of course but she gets little treats to keep her busy while Bolt measures how her exoskeletal plates on her legs are growing and injects medicine under them, and she gets to be with the one grownup who always humors her and never loses her temper (even if she does sometimes lose her patience) which is more than she or any of her factory sisters would’ve dared to imagine not so long ago

+ The paper chains hanging up around the clinic were a Bolt/Detta joint project

+ Another thing while she was recovering was that anytime she needed to go somewhere before her knees and ankles had healed up Bolt would just give her a piggyback ride but she didn’t want to just manhandle her without warning after what she’d been through so they developed this thing where she’d sit down on the bed and say “ding ding, time to get on the trolley!” and she could come over of her own volition, which worked for the situation but the slight backfire is that Detta now absolutely LOVES this game and wants to do it all the time even though her legs work now and will say the “ding ding!” cue herself and just jump up and Bolt doesn’t have the heart to tell her that she’s grown since they first did this and she’ll be like “ok ding ding time to get off” and Detta will be like “aw WHY” and she’ll be like “because the trolley is old and has back problems, go out on the pipe and catch a newer car”

+ Boltie is absolutely not above sending Detta to tell DT bad news because she knows that no matter how stressed she is DT won’t yell at Detta

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