#uterus things

Okay, so that’s a half-truth. I tend to write both Juno and Peter with both traditionally male genitalia for purely arbitrary reasons; I could swap one or both of them out for traditionally female genitalia and... honestly, you probably wouldn’t even notice unless there was a sex scene. In fact, there are only like two lines in the show that imply that one or both of them have male genitalia, and even that implication is fairly weak when you stop and think about it for half a second without heteronormative goggles on (“privileged positions” can be filled just as easily with a dildo, for example, as with anything else. And it only takes half an ounce of sympathy to feel bad for a guard who got shot in the crotch.) The only places it would ever come up would be in a sex scene, or maybe a scene where Juno gets all awkward and flustered asking Peter for a tampon.

But female-presenting?

We have it from the creators themselves that Juno is canonically nonbinary, but “he does not use the term “nonbinary” because gender is pretty darn fluid in Hyperion City and thus the term is pretty irrelevant. (Think of hard femme Nureyev and butch-as-hell Valles Vicky, who Juno refers to as a “drama king” and even “dad.”)” 

So what would female-presenting even look like in Hyperion City?

Would it just involve them both using ‘she/her’ pronouns?

Would it involve them in dresses? (there’s a snazzy pic of both of them in dresses in the link; I particularly like it because Peter looks fine as hell and Juno looks super uncomfortable)

I can see Peter getting into a slinky dress with killer heels, but I can also actually seeing him put in the effort to learn how to walk in heels without breaking his ankle, and fight in a dress without ripping it to shreds (or staining it, because have you ever tried to get blood out of silk?!?). 

But I can’t see Juno doing that. Not because he’s too masculine, but because I can’t see him putting in that same level of effort when an easier option exists.

Honestly, a lot of traditionally feminine arts require a shit-load of work and practice to pull off properly-- proper hair care, makeup, nice nails, etc, are all incredibly complicated when you get right down to it-- and I can see Juno getting into moods where he decides he wants to start doing them, but then gets frustrated or impatient and gives up on it after like three days (not that I’m speaking from experience or anything. Ahem.)