#egg cracking moment

[princesscolumbia]

Return to Recipient - A Ranma 1/2 fanfic

Summary:

Ranma hasn't been feeling right for as long as he can remember, and he just figured that's normal. But after Jusenkyo, and especially after Jusendo, the feeling of "wrongness" has been getting more and more noticeable... ...because he doesn't feel it in his cursed form. He continues to just cope, keeping his struggle to himself, until he finds a letter tucked into his old travel pack addressed to him, written by him, from a 48 hour period that he doesn't remember and nobody will talk to him about.

Notes:

During the writing of 🔞 And at This Point I'm Afraid to Ask 🔞, I realized I was speed-running Ranma's egg-to-hatched trans journey and made an author's note of that. In the comments for that work, I got a note bemoaning the fact that I didn't spend more time on Ranma's realization, coming out, and social transition as a woman while understanding my reasoning. I replied stating that I needed a good hook, something that hadn't been hammered to death by other authors, and at the time I didn't have anything. I really got it in my head that I should do something, so I posted to Tumblr and started putting it out to the universe that I was Poly Transwoman Author Seeking Story Inspiration and Motivation, in Open Relationship with current WIPs. I was scrolling through the "Ranma 1/2" tag this morning trying to find something I hadn't read when I bumped into Dear Diary by JaquiK. I've read it, of course, and it's short and, for what it sets out to do, good. "Feels like it needs more," says I, "Wish the author would continue it, make something more of it than they did." The little author that lives in my head rent free and looks remarkably like Ranma-chan ran up behind me and socked me in the back of my head, "Dummy! There's your plot hook!" Then she backed a dump truck up and dropped about 3/4 of a story's worth of ideas on me. With the 2023 holidays in full swing (it's Cyber Monday as I type this) I'm not sure how quickly I'll get to outlining this or getting chapters 2-5 out (my personal metric for whether the author is serious about a work is if they have 5 chapters out. This has been a solid rule of thumb for long-form fiction and hasn't failed me regardless of fandom), but I wanted to get at least chapter 1 out as quickly as possible. Tags will be added as I add more chapters, mostly because my writing process means I'm not sure what tags will apply until I'm writing something that necessitates them. 😋 I hope you enjoy it.

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He had opened it and read the letter. Halfway through he realized he was shaking and that was when he'd vacated to the roof. He finished reading it fairly quickly, read it again, and then again. He was sure it was a fake of some sort at first, but it was like there was a voice in the back of his head telling him it was the genuine article. Not a 'voice,' per se, but like he could hear it in his girl-form's voice as he read it, like a memory of her reading it to herself after she'd written it to make sure it made sense. After, he'd sat there for nearly half an hour, watching as the sky turned deeper blue in anticipation of the sunset. Sighing for reasons he couldn't articulate yet, he looked at the top of the paper, noting the date again. It'd been written months earlier, on a day that was a big gap in Ranma's memory. This wasn't unusual for him, of course, his memory was notoriously spotty. This particular gap stood out, however, because he hadn't been able to tease the memory out no matter how he worked it, and everyone in the house behaved...weird whenever he asked about it. That more than anything told him that whatever had happened was significant enough the be memorable...about a time he had no memory.

He read the letter again,

Dear Ranma Saotome, I hope quite sincerely that you never find this letter, that you won't ever need to find it because you won't have come back. That sounds awful, but if you're back, then that means that I'm gone. I woke up this morning, and for once in my life I felt right. I didn't realize until it'd been explained to me by Akane that I didn't belong. I'm somehow in your body, awake and alive and able to be just me, and all thanks to Jusenkyo. And, apparently, a smack on the head with a pan. I love Akane, but she has such a temper. And I do feel ALIVE. I have your memories, but they're so...cloudy, so dark and hazy. When I make myself remember them, it's like a layer of shadow and pain is over all of them. It hurt so much to be you that I can understand why you hid away and I came out. Your body makes me feel wrong.  I don't know what it means, how it happened or why I'm here. I think maybe a doctor might be able to help, but then we'd have to explain about the...'curse.' I don't like calling it a curse, that would mean it was bad. For me, it's not. It's wonderful and beautiful and it means I get to exist in a body that doesn't make me feel like I'm wrong. Uncle Tendo splashed me with hot water and turned me into a boy, and it was horrible. I wanted to climb out of my skin to make the wrongness stop. Don't get me wrong, I understand that you're quite handsome, in another world I could probably see you and consider you a fine catch, maybe even try to make you my husband somehow. But to be wearing your body felt like looking down and seeing a

At this point there were several attempts to write a kanji, each attempt being scratched out with the pen. Finally, the writer of the letter managed to put down what they were trying to say;

cat and not being able to get away from it. Being a boy felt horrible and wrong. You're welcome to it, I never could. In case I haven't made it clear, I'm a woman. Well, I suppose I'm still a girl, but I'm growing up to be a woman and I have dreams of being like big sis Kasumi and keeping a nice house and getting flowers, maybe planting a garden. I want to be married, but I guess I haven't grown up enough yet, because I don't think I like boys yet. I keep imagining a future where I'm married and being a housewife, but all I can see as a 'husband' is Akane. Isn't that silly? She's a tomboy, but she's not that much of a boy! ヾ(≧▽≦*)o In case you do read this letter, take care of Akane. She took good care of me today, even though it was very obvious she missed you terribly. I'm writing this in our room as I'm trying to sleep, hoping that it will help with my racing thoughts and the feeling of loneliness; father is refusing to sleep in the room, he considers me disgraceful. I find without someone else around I cannot sleep. I imagine that's because, from what I remember, that's the only life you've ever known, and technically you and I are the same person. If you are reading this, then I'm gone. Please find a way to stop that awful pain you carry with you. I experienced it for only a few hours, you've had it for your entire life. As strong as you are, as much of a martial artist as everyone says, I can only imagine that much pain will break you someday. Love, Ranma Saotome

Pain... thought Ranma. She called it pain.

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#fanfiction #fanfic #nanowrimo #note to self #egg cracking moment #trans female character #transgender #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbtq+ #ranma ½ #ranma #ranma saotome #ranma 1/2 #tofu ono #doctor tofu #doc tofu

[questionthewitness]

tim wright and evan myers weren’t allowed to exist in the same universe bc if they were allowed to meet and share experiences they would’ve killed slenderman with hammers.

#woulda cracked his head open like an egg the moment they saw his ass #thinking about a slenderverse crossover again… hnnnghgh #slenderverse #marble hornets #everymanhybrid #evan myers #tim wright #tim mh #evan emh #cris.jpeg

[fathomx]

I absolutely refuse to believe this anime doesn't know what it's doing For the love of god let young trans people see this bc we all need to be told this at some point I am sobbing

#literally the egg crack moment #trans #wonder egg priority #anime #transition #transgender #transisbeautiful #trans artwork

[slime-crafters]

Gonna be real, I think Link deserves to have a panic attack. Just a full-blown mental deteriorating, absolute heart-wrenching scene of him absolutely losing his shit. I'm just thinking like... Imagine Link learning about what happened to Zelda in TotK and his response being something like falling to his knees, something to show that he can't Take It anymore

I want this twink to absolutely crumple.

#loz #legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #video games #gaming #link watching absolute chaos erupt - people dying right in front of him with no way to prevent it or save zelda: 😐😐😐 #it does actually bother me a bit that link's response to watching zelda being tormented physically and emotionally is him just... #...being slightly wide-eyed before letting his eyes rest and his face turn back to stone #yes it fits his character. but i want to torment him more visibly. let him have a moment of being absolutely SHATTERED #botw did a bit of a better job but i want more #like link cares for zelda - maybe in a more robotic way if you read it like that but it's still care #zelda is all he knows. that's all his life seemingly has led up to #and imagine that being SNATCHED from you. imagine it debilitating you. imagine it being a constant reminder #it doesn't matter HOW stone-cold you are you would crack like an egg after some point #this would drive me to writing my first-ever fanfic ngl #i am not well

[candycornstudios]

I wrote and drew a silly little parody comic about a kid who gets bitten by a radioactive girl

Alt text for each image proceeds as followed

Narration from panel 1: I was just a normal college boy...or so it seemed. Little did I know that a part of me was yearning to break free

Panel 1 description: a pre-transitioned trans person with tawny skin and very long bangs obscuring the eyes, standing alone in front of a yellow background. Holding an orange backpack on one hand. Has a dark gray Nine Inch Nails Shirt.

Narration from panel 2: That all changed when I was bitten by a radioactive girl!!

Dialogue from Panel 2: "Y'OWWWWW" yells the kid as he is bitten by the radioactive girl

Panel 2 description: in a red room, the protagonist from the first panel had their arm stretched out and it is being bitten by a short-haired girl who is glowing bright green because she is radioactive. The green light is emanating intensely while the protagonist is screaming to the top of their lungs

Narration from panel 3: The doctor thought the amount of radiation from the bite should have been lethal to anyone, but I LIVED! The bite made changes to my body that made me happy to be alive....almost as if this is who I was destined to be

Panel 3 description: the protagonist's hair has grown longer, she now has a more feminine body build, and she is wearing a skirt that resembles the transgender flag. She has her arms raised towards her chest and she is very happy. She stands in front of a gradient background that has the colors of the trans flag

Narration from Panel 4: I was never [deadname], I was always Penelope

Song from Panel 4:

🎵There's no spiders

There's no man

She's a girl

and she is trans

Luscious hair

On this girl

and a pretty skirt to twirl

Look out

She is valid and trans!!🎵

Description from panel 4: the protagonist, who is revealed to be named Penelope Porter, is now wearing a cheerleader outfit and has pom-poms in both hands. She is jumping with joy in the middle of an American Football stadium. The stadium is massive and the bleachers are packed with so many people.

#anime #anime art #digital art #art #transgender #trans rights #trans #trans pride #trans flag #lgbt #transition timeline #transition #trans is beautiful #comic book art #comic #comic strip #parody #egg #egg cracking #egg moment

[astoldbychae]

The Dynamic Duo does Date Night 🎤

Dinner, Drinks, and Karaoke (lots and lots of karaoke). . .

After a few drinks, Papa most definitely sung his lil heart out, like his life depended on it. Mo held it down with the background vocals of course. Das her mans & she gon' stand beside him...okay!😂

📌 this lot is everything.

#astoldbychae random gameplay #oc: carmelo hollingsworth #oc: monet giordano #random gameplay moments for the win #Aunt Bev showed up at their door step on her own #so they used that time to enjoy a lil night out #it's officially spring in game... #and it's a plethora of pregnant simmies & engagements going on #I'm avoiding everyone's household like the plague at this point #im having my fun with these two because I KNOW he's on a mission #he's tryna crack them eggs chile... #I swear I yell “MEL GET OFF OF HER” everytime I load their house #😩

[kindaorangey]

im a firm egg pilgrim believer and also that if scollace were to ever be a thing they would Never be endgame. which works out pretty nicely

#scott pilgrim #thunder rambles #the timeline is ramona is trans woman and after months of being with her scott starts to question his own identity #less like 'what if im trans' or 'what if im bi' and more just 'what if i could be queer in literally any way' #which hasnt occurred to him in any conceivable way #and he experiements with ramona and then they decide to have an open relationship and maybe #maybe! #during this time scott hooks up with wallace #and maybe theyve kissed once or twice while drunk before this in college but w/e #and they have a thing for a month or two and its nice but not all that serious and actually it does more to bring scott and wallace together #as friends #than it does anything else #because scott is gradually more and more open about the way hes been questioning #and also in general because this is post-canon scott is a better person in general and sure wallace was awre of this theoretically #but now hes seeing it firsthand and they become the closest and most genuinely friends theyve been in ages #and then they kinda stop hooking up and then a while later scott's egg cracks #and its like the umbrella academy car meme. what if ur egg was slowly cracking and the overlap between ur experimentation #with ur identity and the egg fully cracking finally allowed u to mess around with ur cool gay roommate #for a limited period of time before your identities no longer line up for that anymore #anyway yea also ramona realises shes kinda nonbinary and has a sort of transgender 2: electric boogaloo moment #gives all her leftover estrogen to scott😭😭or something

[abyssmalice]

Big brother. The plan. Focus on the plan.

We need to kill our coworker so stop being distracted by your fighting-horneeness!!

#ic | (heard and loved); #crack | (an egg with some toast); #dash | (commentary from the leylines); #(sorry the dash whiplash of 'ok we are planning on murder' to ayaks having a Moment is so lmao)

[aroacesigma]

Trans headcanons are 10x better if you imagine how ridiculous the logistics behind it would be for some characters

#trans teens skk bothering mori like you're a doctor we're in the MAFIA everything we do is illegal so let's fix this problem #Fyodor just picking Sigma up to become a literal terrorist but nooo his biggest concern is wanting to be a man instead of the coin bombs #gin out there intentionally confusing everyone none of their subordinates think they're the same gender and there's a betting pool #funniest though would be kunikida having an egg crack moment and going ah no. that's not in the schedule. and she packs that away for later #and forgets #wow this really just turned into dumb headcanons again #shut the fuck up kai #ramblings

[zoestorm]

Sudden memory

I was like, nine or ten. At scout camp they made us play a game: here's a man who says women shouldn't be allowed to do some stuff. It was specifically about scouting, so it was that according to him it was Good and Proper to have separate Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Then here's this woman who says that scouting should be co-ed, actually, and girls should learn survival skills alongside boys while boys should learn to cook alongside girls. Okay, now go stand beside the one you think is right.

I was literally the only one who went and stood by the woman.

The troop leaders were dumbfounded, and patiently explained to me that I was supposed to agree with the man, actually.

I wondered why for days, until camp was over and for several days after.

...in retrospect, that should have clued me in to something.

#my egg cracked less than a year later #it was a 'oh' moment

[four-bastard-bustle]

"You say 'i want to be your girlfriend', but do you want to be my man?" is the singular lyric from my t/ordmatt toxic breakup playlist that drives me the most insane

#talkin #The entire playlist makes me feel crazy but this one.... Hogh... #I'm having a lot of thoughts about gender #And my t/ordmatt #Primary thing I'm imagining is that the other three obviously see tord's egg moments and matt just takes it upon himself to crack that egg #It does not go well #Big fight big breakup that whole thing #But that's just one idea and idk if i WANNA do it #The other idea the one this lyric makes me think of in which matt wants a Boy-friend a Man while Tord wants to be casually feminine #And that clashing #That one feels a bit more like something they'd do #Much to consider so much so consider

[righteousdelusions]

nothing like a boy saying you'd look good as a guy to finish cracking your egg

#fanfic movie #i mean my egg was cracked but it was a powerful moment #both in my life and in the movie #fanfic Netflix #izzy.txt

[risingshards]

onimai finale gave me very trans feelings 🥰🥰🥰🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

#onimai #oniichan wa oshimai #mahiro oyama #SORRY MAHIRO MAKES ME FEEL VALID #this goofy anime would have cracked my egg entirely had it not been cracked already #that moment with the heavenly lights coming down as mahiro made her choice???? GHUGGHGH #the whole season gave me trans feelings but GHGHGHGH

[serikyl]

Putting my theory out there so I can say I called it if it happens:

I don’t think Glenn and Jodie are in Hell anymore, I think they got captured by the FBI so they had demons to study and experiment on, and I think they’re gonna need to be rescued before we get Nick’s portion of the Daddy Magic

#dndads #glenn close #jodie foster #nicky close foster #also we better get moments for both of them #or I’m gonna break #like fully crack like an egg

[kinyau]

watched i saw the tv glow

#egg crack moment #not girl moment #woof i gotta take a second to sit down and really think about this moment

[scissorcraft]

hehe… what a shitty

#in this moment… #i got my first hate n im not even two months into my blog!! 🥺 #no but i hope that person grows and heals lol they seem miserable and i hope their misery effects no one elsr n dies within them n they grow #im not gonna remove the comment bc its funny… ‘what a shitty’ hehe a shitty what??? but yeah if yall see it dont send hate or correct them #theyre a troll n i hope life gets better n the bitterness fades 💖 maybe they can crack their egg one day n find peace