How do Aja and Jim tell each other about their gender identity?
Firstly, sorry for letting this get lost in my drafts for a while *insert awkward laugh emoji I can’t find here*
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Aja would probably mention theirs offhandedly. On Akiridion-5, they’re significantly more relaxed about gender than people are on Earth. So Aja has known for a long time that they’re the Akiridion equivalent of nonbinary. Though, it would take them a while to realize they’d like to use they/them pronouns. At first, Aja thought there wasn’t a significant difference between Earthling pronouns and that they all were interchangeable, but when they found out that pronouns are often associated with gender, they decided on their favored set (altho Aja also is fine with being referred to with either he/him or she/her pronouns too). That conversation is also what led into them coming out to Jim.
At first, Jim didn’t come out to Aja. He liked that they’d only known him as a boy. He was scared that if she found out he’d once been something different, it would change the way they feel about him. I think it would come up in a situation where Aja sees an old, childhood photo of Jim and ask him if he’d had a sister (excitedly - the idea of bonding with him over having a sibling thrills Aja). Jim would hesitantly explain, and Aja would enthusiastically accept him.
