higurashi headcanons.notes under the cutSatoko is a trans girl. While I think she could be bi, i thi

higurashi headcanons.

notes under the cut

Satoko is a trans girl. While I think she could be bi, i think she has a particular struggle with her attraction to women once she reaches high school and accepting it is a huge part of her early adulthood. I also love looking at Satoko’s exaggerated “proper lady” bit as a way for her to connect with and have fun with her gender euphoria. See Satoshi’s notes for more details about Satoko’s transition.

Rika is a lesbian, (barely a headcanon) and though I didn’t write it down, I think she considers herself agender, but femme aligned for sure. shrug. I think Rika, being so disconnected from Hinamizawa’s cultural rules, would be ultra supportive of anyone in her life who was a budding queer. She has a large hand in helping Satoko discover this. I think that Hanyuu’s alien origin also opens her mind to the fluidity of gender extremely early in her life.

Mion is a trans girl, and bi. I think that Mion’s deep insecurity about being percieved as a “girl” even though she has “boyish” (ie rowdy) traits has always felt very Gender to me. I think Mion might have began transitioning pretty soon before the story, definetly some time late 1982. I think that additionally, Mion’s crisis wrt Keiichi giving the doll to Rena could hit Shion harder if she was reminded of the general transphobia of the village, seeing as I headcanon Satoshi as an nb trans man as well. More on that in his section.

Shion, being Mion’s identical twin, is also a trans girl. Being exiled and feeling alone for her whole life probably has given her a lot of time to self reflect and I think that Shion began her transition much before Mion. The Sonozaki’s largely ignored this/chose not to acknowledge it/let it fuel their distaste for Shion for sure, but she found acceptance after Mion began her own transition, as Mion is the golden child and her conviction toward her identity impressed Oryou, who essentially dictates everyone’s opinion on the matter anyway.

Hanyuu is a gender fluid person who uses she/he/it. Originally being an incorporeal space creature, I don’t think that Hanyuu’s race had much of a perception of gender, but Hanyuu found euphoria in womanhood and manhood while adapting to human life. Also she’s huge. Which means Eua is even huger.

Keiichi is a he/him lesbian!! I’m not sure why but I’ve been so drawn to this HC lately. Maybe because it makes most of the love interests in lesbian ones if so :P Anyways, Keiichi grew up in the city where I think he was more able to find queer education despite being lonesome and it being the 80′s, especially if he had any awareness of American politics at the time. I think he may be the type to use he/him confidently with friends but have a hard time getting his parents to remember his pronouns because he’s not a trans man.

Satoshi is a trans man, though!! My idea for Satoko and Satoshi is that when their parents died and their Uncle and Aunt took them in, they managed to switch names and go stealth since their Aunt and Uncle probably didn’t give enough of a shit about them to know who was the older one prior to being saddled with them. I imagine they were very ostracized anyway, and Chie is definetly supportive of trans identities, so the transition went well for them both. Rika assuredly help pay for both of their wardrobes with her inheritance, and Chie helped change their legal documents (illegally I think because of laws in Japan but it’s a tiny town, so it wasn’t too hard hehe.)

And finally Rena, who is nonbinary!! I think Rena has a very unique idea about what is “cute” and coupled with their parents being fashion designers i think they would experiment ALOT with their presentation, and eventually land off of the binary spectrum. I like the idea of them gravitating toward their Dad because of his support for them in this regard. Rena definetly reads a lot of queer literature and history!!