#although i love silas i am not going to do him unless someone asks for him specifically because he's overrated #(to me. i overrate him.) now i need to know about silas!🏳️‍🌈

send me a 🏳️‍🌈 and a character name and ill share my gender/sexuality headcanon for them

gender virgin sexuality virgin assigned virgin at birth 

done, next

OK sexuality, he's one of those clueless blissfully unaware closeted gay kids who doesn't realize they themselves are gay despite being 100% driven by way OTT subconscious gay thoughts and impulses 24/7/365. However he is (by the point of canon) about halfway through the process of transforming into ye olde self hating gay adult in conscious denial. I don't want him to fully reach that latter point even in AUs because at his core Silas is, to me, a funny character, and if he got all the way there it would be hard to make it feel funny enough to be him. Yes at his core he also is a tragic character but going too hard on the Consciously Self Hating Gay thing would lean too much on the tragic and not enough on the funny for me. I would accept it in small sexy doses like a depressing PWP. 

My thoughts on silas gender are large, they contain multitudes. Um... it's hard for me to say headcanon because canonically it feels to me like everyone in TLT was written as binary cisgender. I do have thoughts about that but I've gone off about it on the TLT subreddit before and I'm not going to do it again here, it's not germane to the topic. Anyway whenever I'm talking about some TLT character's gender as far as the character being trans and/or nb it's not so much a headcanon as in "I think this is what's really going on," because I have very little doubt in my mind that was not intended for any of these characters, it's more "I think it would be neat if this was going on". I say all that as like a disclaimer before getting to the actual point which is that I really enjoy the idea of nonbinary transfem Silas and while I can't realistically see that being a thing during canon timeline if someone were writing like a long mostly-happy everyone-lives post-canon AU or something that's where I would want to see the character eventually end up. If that makes sense. I will happily admit that a lot of personal projection goes into this. I definitely don't think it's OOC to write him as a 100% cis guy forever, I can buy that too, it just isn't my first preference.

There are several TLT characters (like Harrow and sometimes Gideon!) where what I would want to be going on with them gender- and/or sexuality-wise in a modern/high school/college setting AU -- something I think about a lot because they're all so freakin young -- differs pretty drastically from what I want to be going on with them in canon and Silas is one of these. In a total reversal of everything that I would like to see with him in an extended canon timeline situation, in that kind of setting AU I usually imagine him as being a mostly binary identified trans guy. Partly because I like it and it makes more sense to me for how his character would develop to a recognizable point in the setting or whatever, but partly because a while back I was spitballing what the fuck could be some kind of outside-the-norm thing he and Colum could possibly share in such a normal setting and landed on oh hey wait what if they were both having complex similar yet different gender journeys in their fundamentalist family and ended up in a unique and close relationship because of that. So that reinforced it for me.

My point is he could be written with any gender and I would nod along like great, makes sense