(trigger warning: cissexism and binarism.)

MOLLY: Can I ask you a question, Xav?

XAVIN: If you must.

MOLLY: How come you’re not a girl all the time?

XAVIN: Why don’t you wear the same ridiculous hat all the time?

MOLLY: Because my hair gets so tangly that my mom told me birds would start to live in it? But that’s different. I mean, Karolina is a… she likes girls, right?

XAVIN: And you have a problem with that?

MOLLY: No! Duh! I have a picture of Northstar on my wall and everything! It’s just, I think everybody would be more comfortable if you could maybe just look like a girl forever.

XAVIN: And I’m sure some people would be more comfortable if Karolina liked males. Or if you were not a genetic mutation. But I am not like everyone else, and that means you may have to learn to accept something new and different, as my betrothed already has.