#this was originally gonna be lily and florian

[akuma-tenshi]

did another version of this post bc i saw this variation n thought it was fucking hilarious

[thepdvblog]

Dandelion - Masterpost

Summary: Catherine Moinot is born on March twenty-first, nineteen-eighty-five in Colombes, France. Her father is a low-wage worker in a factory of the city, her mother is a housewife who gave up on finding a job once her daughter was born. Her father comes from a low-class Lorrain family, her mother is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. A childhood in the middle of the thick urban fabric surrounding Paris, trapped between the roads and the concrete, in the outskirts of the outskirts without the pros of the richer parts of Colombes and the better landscapes of the rest of the country. I should know that. I once was this girl.

Status: Ongoing

Notes: My notes are pretty lenghty, but please don't turn away from this story just yet because of it! I originally planned this to be a very long oneshot, but It'll probably be a multi-chaptered fic, albeit it's probably going to be somewhat short. I projected for a very long time on Florian without thinking I did. I just thought it was because I was intrigued, almost enticed to something I wasnt't. It all started last year, very early in the school year, when I started to think making a character out of my new Modern Lit prof was a good idea (no regret there, tbh), but it also kept crawling in the back of my mind. "Hey, maybe he's trans, even if that's probably just you ain't gonna lie. Making your character trans can't hurt if you do enough research, right?" I still stand by that, but it's been weirder and yet more intimate to do it once the sour-ass realization of "you're not a girl" hit me like a truck in the middle of an English class. As to the story itself, it's essentially one of Florian's backstory, but told in a weird prose.

AO3 version available here (recommanded).

Chapter links under the cut.

Chapter 1: A Flower in Spring’s Haze

Chapter 2: Daffodil Bouquet

Chapter 3: Turning the Page

Chapter 4: Pink Tulips

Chapter 5: Watching the Orange Lilies Bloom

Chapter 6: In the Field of Anemones and Peonies