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anytime i attach to a character i immediately look for trans hcs but i’ve found a serious lack for peaky blinders </3

anyways ftm thomas shelby hc

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ok… imagine a moon knight and daredevil crossover where dd has no issues fighting the invisible jackals because the dude cant see shit anyway. moon knight is like “you can see them??” and matt, not wanting to reveal his blindness but having no idea theyre invisible, is just like “yeah i can see of course i can see”

moon knight then assumes dd is an avatar of an egyptian god. bc what else? so, naturally, moon knight asks “what god do you serve?”

“jesus”

“what??”

“im catholic?”

“what???”

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My fav autistic characters! (hc & canon)

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Rewatched Moon Knight recently and fell in love with Oscar Isaac’s acting again so I thought I’d do a skin and expression study to treat my case of hyperfixation.

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with it officially being disability pride month, I wanna talk about my favorite disabled headcanon, which is for the one and only, my most beloved Poe Dameron. Buckle up, because this is a long post.

I actually have a few different disability headcanons, most of which hold up to canon/are extrapolated from canon, so we'll keep that in mind as we go through. I expect this to have about...four parts total. Let's go!

Hard of Hearing

I think a good case can be made that Poe is hard of hearing, with a few instances that could point to this fact, primarily the very beginning of the Rise of Skywalker. Even though Chewie is sitting right beside Poe, Poe does not understand what Chewie has said, because his head is turned (at no other point does Poe have any problem understanding Chewbacca, so we know it is not a linguistics issue)

It's only when he turns towards Chewie and Chewie repeats what he said that Poe understands what was said. There's also the frankly adorable moment in The Last Jedi that's extremely easy to miss, because it's a far away shot and we just barely catch what Poe says:

BB-8 is beeping so fast trying to catch Poe up that Poe has to request that he slow down so Poe can understand him. Other possible evidence of him being HoH (beyond the comical amount of explosions he's constantly caught in) is that there are several shots where we see Poe carefully watching the lips of the person he's speaking to as they're talking, as if that might help him keep up.

And (I don't have a gif of this lmao I'm not giffing him getting hurt) when Poe gets shot in tros, @/dameronalone pointed out it could be evidence he didn't hear the approaching stormtroopers when he turned to look the other way. @/hermitmoss has also pointed to his line at the start of tfa while being snarky at Kylo as further possible evidence, about how it's hard to understand Ren with the voice modulator.

Essential Hand Tremor

Another fact pointed out to me by @/hermitmoss (thanks Braigwen) is that when Poe goes to cover Leia's hand with his own in the Last Jedi, we see that his hand is shaking:

I later noticed that this isn't the only time that we see Poe do this, we see it again in the Rise of Skywalker, where he cannot keep his blaster steady as Rey approaches the serpent at all.

These are the only two circumstances I can find of his hands trembling in the movies, though, and we know from plenty of other scenes that Poe ordinarily can keep a blaster extremely steady:

Autism & ADHD

Okay this one I don't consider to be a headcanon, lmfao. I genuinely believe that Poe was intentionally coded as autistic/ADHD by Oscar Isaac.

Oscar playing/coding Poe as something that is never explicitly confirmed by Disney is far from new: Poe is coded as a bisexual (or pansexual) man, because that's how Oscar Isaac saw Poe and chose to play him, and even if we weren't gifted with it being made explicit, it's still there in his performance.

If you happen to be a fan of Oscar Isaac, or just a Marvel and Star Wars fan both, you'll know he starred in the Disney+ series Moon Knight last year as the Moon Knight system (Steven Grant, Marc Spector, and Jake Lockley).

Shortly after the first episode premiered, Oscar Isaac revealed in an interview that while trying to figure out who Steven was as a person, he came up with the idea that the system be on the Autism Spectrum, and approached Marvel to see if he could include it into his performances, and it was green-lit.

The Lunar system is the best intentional autistic representation I've ever seen, there are so many things they do that are so minor that I doubt most people would ever consider to include, but they are things that me and my friends do.

And there's an overlap in how Oscar plays the various autistic habits and traits of the Lunar system in how he portrays Poe. Most notably, Poe and Marc have extremely similar meltdowns:

There's plenty more overlap (Poe does the same anxious stim Steven does, of rubbing the inside of his index finger with his thumb) but there's so much there I'm not sure where all to begin. I have gone more in depth on the various autistic traits Poe shows throughout the films in this gifset here, though.

I'll go ahead and include some of the moments we see him stimming, that I have evidence of:

(he also does this same hand thing when he starts to leave BB-8 and promises to come back.)

We also see him fidgeting anxiously with his hands during the briefing in the last jedi:

Poe also has a habit of running his tongue along his bottom lip while he's stressed or thinking something through. Here's three examples from across the trilogy (there are plenty more):

We're leaning a little closer into ADHD territory now. I don't really know how to explain why I think Poe is ADHD, to be quite honest, besides the fact that he just radiates ADHD energy to me and I heavily relate. This is a man who cannot stay still, and frequently talks with his hands:

But there's also the fact that Poe oftentimes has a tendency to not be able to fully see the potential of negative outcomes to his decisions - he sees point a to point b, and sometimes becomes laser focused on that. It's something I understand perfectly, because it's hard for me to pull away from something I've already fully committed to doing, and it's even more difficult sometimes for me to truly understand what (and what kind of) consequences my actions will have.

Other evidence of him being extremely autistic (and adhd) is just....that he makes autistic expressions?

Like this...is an autistic expression, I've seen my best friend make this exact fucking face before, I don't know how else to explain it.

Misc Thoughts

Aside from the above, it's pretty much canon that Poe has anxiety and depression — at the very least, Poe Dameron: Free Fall by Alex Segura certainly does not shy away from the suggestion, and is one of the most implicit portrayals we have of it outside the films — it is a series of catastrophizing his circumstances that leads Poe to joining Zorii for a little while as a teenager, following a joyride that ended in a crash that Poe explicitly wishes he had not survived.

The movies themselves also points to Poe having PTSD, partially through the writing but mostly due to the nuanced and thoughtful performance Oscar Isaac gives as Poe (that goes....woefully underappreciated, seriously he adds so much depth to every single scene as Poe, including the thread of anxiety in Poe's voice when Rey mentions Ren's ship is over Kijimi, or constantly looking out to make sure they're not being followed in tros).

(Good expanded material follows through on this, such as Poe's reluctance to discuss anything about what happened aboard the Finalizer in the Poe Dameron: Flight Log, and becoming irate at the thought of having to. He's an extremely traumatized man, and he certainly doesn't deserve to be thrown out of an airlock jfc and he isn't as arrogant as the fascist regime he is fighting, tbh he's not arrogant at all).

Conclusion

I believe that sums up the majority of my Poe is disabled thoughts, or at least the ones that I think holds up very well within the canon framework. He's extremely disabled and - in the case of being neurodivergent - this is critical to understanding him as a character, especially considering his arc ends up being focused on interdependence.

I wish all fellow disabled folk a happy pride month, and I wish all very ableds a very "please do not be ableist on this post". You will be blocked otherwise.

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little steven grant 🌙:

- LOVES reading books, even if sometimes it’s just to look at the pictures

- loves the color blue, has a large collection of blue pacis

- loves playing in sand and making sandcastles

- was embarrassed to regress after marc found out, but he reassured him that he didn’t mind and would even keep an eye out to make sure he was okay

- has a large collection of plushies (many of which came from the museum)

- loves to make blanket forts using the beams around his bed to make him feel safer at night

- loves playing documentaries about ancient egypt to lull him to sleep

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“through the winter night my heart grieves grieves without reason… rusts copper green and purple.”

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Nakahara Chuuya, “chill night” from Depilautumn: The poetry of Nakahara Chūya

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I can just imagine Karube and Chota surprising Arisu one day, taking him to Karube’s apartment to give him a haircut and gifting him his first binder, his smile when he looks in the mirror being so genuine it almost brings him to tears. He finally recognizes himself.

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trans arisu

- he/him, bi

- runs a discord to play games with and talk to other trans guys

- cut his own hair when he was thirteen and just kept it like that

- only motivation to get a job is to pay for his medical transition

- Karube beats up anyone who disrespects Arisu

- Wasn’t in the house much other than being cooped up in his room since he felt more accepted by his friends than his family

- Kuina helped Arisu come out to Usagi

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young trans ranpo

- Ranpo had only ever come out to his parents, so with their deaths he felt even more alone.

- He came out much quicker than he had expected he’d be comfortable doing to Fukuzawa, since he quickly began to view him as a father figure.

- Since Ranpo was only fourteen, Fukuzawa paid for his hormone blockers, something he had began a little over a year before meeting him but didn’t have the means to continue on his own.

- After meeting Yosano at around 15, they quickly became very close and he told her everything. She, of course, fully accepted him and Ranpo felt as if he was finally able to fill the big brother role he never could in the past. 

- On his half birthday betweeen fifteen and sixteen, Fukuzawa surprised Ranpo by telling him he’d be able to start T on his sixteenth birthday, and of course he was ecstatic. Yosano helped teach Ranpo how to inject the T himself which he largely appreciated. 

- Ranpo’s seventeenth birthday brought another surprise, that being top surgery. His date had been set exactly a week after he turned seventeen, so he spent the week before it eating cake and using his new detective equipment Fukuzawa had bought for him as a present. 

- Despite the fact that everyone else was annoyed by the new agency member’s antics, Ranpo was elated to have another trans guy (Dazai) in the agency. 

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genderfluid ranpo

- they/he/she

- uses girlfriend/boyfriend

- enters the agency every morning and states their current pronouns before sitting down for work

- first came out to fukuzawa, yosano, and dazai (and eventually everyone else at the agency) (all were very supportive, though some were a bit confused at first)

- fukuzawa refuses to accept work for the agency if the customer disrespects ranpo

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“‘Hey! What are you doing there? Don’t tear the thread off the cushion!’ While we were talking I had unconsciously been fiddling with and twisting around my finger one of the tassel-like threads which protruded from the corners of the cushion on which I sat—binding-threads, I think they are called. Horiki had assumed a jealous possessiveness about everything in his house down to the last cushion thread, and he glared at me, seemingly quite unembarrassed by this attitude. When I think of it, Horiki’s acquaintanceship with me had cost him nothing.”

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Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human pg. 109-10

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little dazai:

- if you give him two objects he will bang them together aggressively

- clever little bab + loves to fidget with things like rubik’s cubes

- just wants tons of hugs tbh

- either very very clingy or doing his own thing alone

caregiver chuuya:

(specifically for dazai)

- his main cg (since he cares for him when he’s at home and that’s when he regresses the most)

- spoils dazai since he knows he deserves it

- hugs hugs hugs (and very nice warm ones at that)

- lets dazai braid his hair

caregiver kunikida:

(specifically for dazai)

- can sometimes be impatient but tries to keep cool when dazai’s little

- keeps a blanket in the office in case dazai falls asleep

- lets dazai lean his head on his shoulder while he works if it’ll keep dazai quiet (also gives him gentle head rubs)

- pretends to be annoyed by dazai playing with his glasses but secretly thinks it’s kinda cute

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caregiver jouno:

- can tell the moment tecchou regresses from his slight change in breathing/heart rate (even when tecchou denies he’s regressing)

- will sometimes just walk into work carrying tecchou and no one questions it

- always buys little fidget toys for tecchou to play with

- uses any title (doesn’t matter if it’s gendered)

little tecchou:

- loves playing hide and seek (even though jouno finds him almost immediately)

- please hide his sword from him when he’s regressed

- tries to use his ability on his rattle (would it work? idk)

- giggly little boy

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caregiver fukuzawa:

- usually quiet but very caring and protective over ranpo

- occasionally cares for dazai when he regresses at work since he doesn’t want to tell anyone else

- loves carrying ranpo around (even if he’s being fussy)

- sometimes ranpo will get burntout and regress at work so fukuzawa will stay there and take care of him for as long as he needs and gently calm him down

little ranpo:

- sweets sweets sweets! (dw fukuzawa makes sure he doesn’t eat too much)

- communicates through small noises that only fukuzawa understands

- prefers to crawl

- grabby hands. so many grabby hands

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acc guide :)

bungou stray dogs:

cg dazai/ranpo/chuuya

little atsushi + cg dazai/kunikida

cg fukuzawa + little ranpo

cg jouno + little tecchou

little dazai + cg chuuya/kunikida

genderfluid ranpo

young trans ranpo

noragami:

little yukine/yato + cg yato/hiyori

ouran high school host club:

cg haruhi/kyoya + little tamaki

alice in borderland:

trans arisu

moon knight:

little steven grant

general little/cg textposts:

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little yukine:

- bratty baby

- loves sippy cups

- always wears his big hood cuz it makes him feel smol

- nonverbal when he’s little which can sometimes make him frustrated but hiyori and yato have picked up on cues to figure out what he wants

caregiver yato:

he usually regresses more than he’s a cg but he loves being a cg for yukine

- loves giving yukine piggy back rides (even though he usually ends up falling somehow)

- very protective over yukine

- calls yukine little boy which yukine pretends to not like but secretly loves

- buys yukine little treats whenever he finds any extra change

little yato:

- must be supervised at all times or he will try to steal alcohol

- sometimes talks so fast you can’t understand him

- loves to play with kofuku

- always trying to chew on his fluffy fluff scarf (also loves repeating the words fluffy fluff)

caregiver hiyori:

- usually takes care of yukine more but will sometimes take care of both of them or just yato

- lets yukine play with her tail

- loves to take yukine to the park

- yato can never say her name right when he’s little so they’ve settled on riri