Added a "Princess Paul" AU to the document

[zaniida]

Found this in my notes and I'm annoyed that I'd forgotten about it, but: Humon's "Princess Paul" proposes a worldbuild where everyone (including guys) wears fancy dresses and acts feminine. I extrapolated that to a worldbuild where the Feminine is the norm and Masculine the outlier, mostly as an inversion of the common real-life girls-vs-boys stereotypes.

Since it centers on performative gender roles, it's down in the Trans-Positive section. I've gone over a few possible variations, centering on the questions of how the Feminine/Masculine dichotomy works and which group ends up breaking it and why.

Is Feminine the typical passive/pretty stereotype (so boys are kinda forced into this role)? Or is Feminine the active/competent/technical side of humanity while Masculine is the passive/cautious/nurturing side?

Do all men act feminine, hiding their inner nature? Or are princes forced into this role so that the royal family is seen as capable of leadership? Or is it specifically one male character (or a couple of them) who dresses up as a woman in order to make it in a woman's world, or avoid the dangers he'd face if people knew he was a guy?

So those questions, and the male/female disparities, could be explored using this AU.

Comments

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's a cool addition to the set.