Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast)
at once he was reborn
by brinnanza
Ed always tries to be kind. It’s hard sometimes, when people keep calling him the wrong name, try to force him into dresses and paint him up like a doll. Mum had told him once, while she brushed his long, golden hair and wove it into plaits, that they’d have called him Edward if he’d been born a boy. That hadn’t made much sense - he was a boy, so surely his name should be Edward now. He’d said so, twisting round to look Mum in the face.She’d laughed like he’d told a very funny joke and explained no, this was something called a “hypothetical”, that it wasn’t real, that it was okay he didn’t understand because he was likely to grow up to be very pretty, so he’d do alright. He wasn’t sure what that had to do with anything; being pretty didn’t make him someone else.