[peppermintleo]

username: pure.crazy
kalon's name: Cali?
gender: transmale
prompt: (max. 750 words)
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[Lorne_Purnima]

Dropping out, good luck guys <3 I know this babe will be going to a good home. c:

[Lillybear]

Mark! <3

Res with maybe cutting their hair?

[mellow yellow.]

mark

[Adallina]

username: Adallina
kalon's name: June
gender: Male (he/him)
prompt: (max. 750 words) wip
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[Steven_Universe]

username: DeepBlueJay
kalon's name: Blueberry Berry (formerly Raspberry Berry)
gender: Trans Male (He/Him)
prompt: res with changing appearance
He'd had more than enough of all this "he/she" nonsense. He'd come out some time ago and it seemed that no matter what he did, the long hair he was so accustomed to just would not fly if he wanted proper representation. Frustrated with everything he took a pair of scissors, old and dull but they'd do the job, and hacked at his hair to slay the beast holding him back, but like the hydra it felt like there was no end in sight, snip by snip long strands of fur flocked to the floor and crumpled into a cotton candy heap, a massacre of soft locks and short snippets of hair.
After about an hour of failure, an hour of fighting the hydra, he looked in the mirror and cried at what he saw looking back at him. He'd barely made a dent but... But what was left was a haunting mess, a mauled version of his formerly voluminous hair cut back in shaggy mats, uneven, choppy, ugly.
Ducking under the sink faucet, he reached above his head to turn the crystal knob and free a torrent of icy cold water, which stung at his skin but brought relief from the tiny bits of stinging hair that littered his neck and scalp.
"Blue?" A calm and gentle voice called out from beyond the door, fiddling with the knob as it's owner heard the young kalon's sobs. "Oh... Blue..." The older kalon, his childhood friend, lifted him from the floor. "Come on, let me get the clippers and I'll get you all cleaned up, alright?" The blue, wet mess of a kalon sniffled quietly. "A-alright."

It worked for a while, with the help of his friend, Blue had his hair clipped off and was referred to as "he" everywhere he went, seemingly. But then... The fur began to grow out... And it started again.
This time he was far more desperate, knowing now the luxury of being recognized as his own gender. He rushed to get his ears pierced, and looked for the toughest looking piercings he could find.
But it didn't work.
He started wearing makeup to cover his feminine features.
It didn't work.
Nothing worked, nothing ever seemed to work. He stopped going out, he hid in his room, he cried...

A familiar voice spoke to him through the door until the speaker was allowed in, it was his friend again. His friend came over and sat beside him. "What's bothering you so much, Blue?"
"Everyone keeps misgendering me..." He sniffed and stared at the floor with empty eyes glazed over with unshed tears.
"Oh, Blue..." His friend sighed and thought for a moment about what he should say. "You know... People don't really think, they don't always realize that what they see is only part of what is."
Blue sniffled, "What do you mean?"
"Well... Most people can't tell the difference between a lot of animals, they just look at a few things on the animal and assume they know what it is."
"I do that sometimes..." Blue wiped his eyes and looked over at his friend, "What's your point?"
"You have a naturally beautiful face, people expect rougher looks in men even though that's often not the case. They just assume things. It even happens to cisgendered people, you know."
"I-It does?"
"Yeah. It does." His friend smiled a bit, "They aren't targeting you, this is all just new to them. What matters is that the people you are close to accept you... And that you accept yourself. No one else knows a thing about you, why should their opinion hurt so much? You don't have to worry about making an impression, you'll probably never see them again anyways."
"You're right... It... It still bothers me but you're right... No one I actually care about does it, that's the important thing."
"Mmhm... Exactly..." His friend smiled and his serious attitude died in that moment. "Now... How's about we go get something to eat, hm? Lunch is on me!"

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[Steven_Universe]

Can the art be animated?

[MoonlightTabby]

username:
kalon's name:
gender:
prompt: (max. 750 words)
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Mark!

[Cloasiii]

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"So, how are your grades doing? All A's this time?"
The elderly kalon slowly stirred the soup before her.
"Maybe a B in that Stats class of yours, that would be understandable."
There was a long pause. The apparent judge, draped in her most gaudy gray overcoat, looked down upon her defendant.

Do I tell her now? What do I say? God, I'm so scared.
"Well, university grades are heavily dependent on finals at the end of the semester-"

A slight grimace. She didn't like that answer.

"-but so far it's smooth sailing! All A's!"

The scowl stayed for a moment before receding into a more flat expression. It was as if she was taking the time to savor his response, similar to her soup; to decide if she liked it or not.
"Good, that sounds more like my gir-, I mean, grandchild."

What are you supposed to do when the only love condition your family has left for you -- academic success -- begins to fall out from under you? They stood by me through my transition, they seemingly respected my name and pronouns -- but after I failed that Stats class last year, it's as if I'm a stranger to them.



I still remember the night it happened.

All my childhood, I was defined by one quality, albeit under differing names: smart, promising, successful. The first topic of interest any time I entered a room was, "oh, what projects are you working on this time?" or "I wish I loved school as much as you did, haha."
It was the reason I got any treat I ever wanted, any smile in my general direction, any affirmation at all. Everyone's amazed by little scientists.

But I never got those amazing grades in biology because I wanted to be smart. The topics were just fun -- looking at cells through a real telescope? Are you kidding me? As a kid that blew my mind!

Somewhere along the line, though, classes stopped becoming so interesting. I would much rather go camping or build a birdhouse than struggle over advanced chemistry work. I wasn't the kid that loved fun, though, because I was the smart kid. That's what everyone told me.

So I forced my way through highschool faking a grin the whole way. It's okay that I didn't take creative writing or pottery as electives, because my dad would just buy me poems and pots. My dad loved me a lot, my whole family loved me a lot! They even loved me through my transition; they accepted me without hesitation. I guess it was because my real identity never changed to them.
I was still the smart kid.

College came as inevitably as death. All stem classes from the start; all of my general education requirements were already satisfied with my painfully earned dual enrollment credits, after all.
I started to realize that I wasn't the smart kid.

Advanced calculus, organic chemistry, intro to statistics and intro to linguistics were my starting line up. Most of the classes were painful, but the formula to survive was the same: nonstop grinding.
But statistics for some reason -- I can't stand to think of it -- statistics, I could not just grind.
There was a fundamental error in my way of thinking that prevented me from understanding statistic's abstractions. I couldn't get it. I wanted to get it, but I couldn't get it. There was no amount of brute force and time that I could put towards understanding why populations worked the way they do.

As much as it frustrated me, it drove my family crazy. When they saw my first failure, they couldn't wrap their heads around it. I was the smart kid, so surely these concepts should come to me naturally! Why would I need to put in effort? Had I been slacking off? Was I a fraud, deceiving them?

The one identity they had for me was stripped away. Suddenly when they called, they didn't refer to me as Damien anymore. I was a stranger to them, reverted back to a little girl who could do nothing well.

How am I supposed to cope with that? It was my first failure in life, and it cost me my family -- what do I do about that?!

"You should grow your hair back out. You look like a boy."

My fur covered the floor that night.

[SunnyStreets]

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I couldn't see. I couldn't move. my head. oh, my head. there was darkness all around me. then a voice. jumping out of the shadows, a voice. it wasn't a voice I recognized. "megan? are you there?" it asked. my head hurt. no. megan was not here. linus was here. megan no longer existed. but they wouldn't have that in my hospital records. if that was there I was. "megan." the voice continued. "you were in a car crash. do you remember?" I remember that I'm not megan, I wanted to yell. but I couldn't. I couldn't do anything. shouldn't I be dead? I wondered. but I could feel myself breathing gently. so I was alive. but frozen. oh no! was I paralyzed? I couldn't be paralyzed. what about football, what about - my head was spinning. the voice came again. "megan. megan. your parents are here." my parents. they would correct the doctor. and indeed, I heard my mother say "his name's linus." I could imagine the doctor staring at them. but then I felt someone grip my hand. it was my father's hand. I could feel the work-rough palm and scratchy skin. "oh, linus," his voice floated through the darkness. I could detect a sob in it. why did everyone sound so sad? what had happened to me? apparently there had been a car crash. I could recall screeching tires and a scream. my mother's scream. mum? was she there? yes, her voice came. "you're gonna be okay, linus. you're gonna wake up." so was I just asleep then? I'd heard of people being asleep yet not asleep. like... me? what was it called? I heard footsteps, loud and crisp. the doctor's footsteps. and indeed, there came the voice. "linus, is it?" the doctor sounded sceptical. "do you understand what's happened to you?" yes. I did. I was asleep, and I was awake, and I might die. my mother's sobs ripped through the gauzy blackness. "linus," she wailed. "please, I love you, I need you." I shivered underneath the hospital bedding. dad stepped forward and placed a hand upon my head. "can't you wake up, linus?" I jerked my head. I never liked dad's hands, they were rough and hurt my skin. gasps echoed round the room. "sh- he moved," the doctor's clean voice cried. they rushed out of the room and mother's voice came to me. "linus. are you going to wake up now?" I felt a dampness on my arm. and twitched it. mother grabbed it, as though she was grabbing at hope. "linus. please!" the darkness disappeared. slowly, I wrenched my eyelids open. "mother!" and I saw her face, her blue eyes ringed with sleep shadows, tears pouring down her cheeks. she hugged me. and I smiled. then the door burst open and the doctor, my father, and another doctor burst in. they stopped short and my mother turned, a smile glowing on her face. "he's awake!" they crowded round me, and the new doctor congratulated the other one. "you brought us good luck!" I lifted myself up into a sitting position and felt dizzy. mother supported me as I swung my legs out of bed and she led me to a tree. "after two years," she wept. "he finally woke up." two years? I missed two years of my life? my head spun. no. I couldn't have. I shivered, my head pounding. mother crouched next to me. "linus. linus. linus." she was weeping still, with happiness. the doctors had ushered each other out of the room, leaving my parents to shower me with love. I was happy. "mother. father." tears shimmered in my eyes. I had been in a coma for two years. and now I was happy. I hugged my parents and they pulled me to my feet. I staggered. I couldn't walk well. "you need a bit of practice. they massaged your legs so they would stay strong." I nodded and they supported me out the door. the doctor signed our "ready to leave" papers and we went to get cake to celebrate. I was finally awake, and I was happy. crumbs spilled onto my chin and mother clucked, wiping them off with a napkin. I smiled and finished my cake. we were a whole family again. at last.