#transbsd

trans bsd icons for pride month! —nonbinary Dazai, transfem Yosano, trans Chuuya, and genderfluid Atsushi. 

of course! my trans Dazai headcanon is so deeply entrenched that I’m not sure I’m even capable of writing him as cis anymore. 

canon evidence for Dazai being trans ranges from “he uses gender neutral pronouns for himself”. there’s probably more, but mostly I think. he wears extensive bandages = he probably uses them to bind as well. 

now, when I characterize Dazai as trans, I think a lot about the sort of behavior I practice as a nonbinary trans person; in this fic, where I wrote nonbinary girl Dazai, she binds, wears masculine/neutral clothes, and wears her hair short to prevent people from easily realizing that she’s /A Woman/ - because she’s not, even if she doesn’t have the terminology to describe her experiences. 

in these two fics, where Dazai’s genitals basically never come up, the references to him being trans are contained in throwaway lines about how difficult he finds it to breathe, Mori warning him his ribs will warp, or in the line at the beginning about him having a cunt. 

there’s a lot of ways to write trans characters, and I love writing Dazai as trans partly because there’s so many ways for to me to take things hinted at in canon and weave them into what I think and know about Dazai. and I tend to love every trans!Dazai headcanon, ranging from “binary trans man” to “nonbinary girl” to “transfem” to “nonbinary masc-adjacent with objectification feels” (which is totally not projection, not at all)