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buglovingbagel · 4 months

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How Stardew Valley villagers would react to you coming out as nonbinary!!

(Or trans, but I wrote it with nonbinary in mind, IM PROJECTING /lh)

All my favorite villagers, not just the bachelors, but I start with them. :3

Some of these were really hard to write for, especially with characters I don't know all that well 😭

THESE ARE ALL HEADCANNONS, PEOPLE. I'm aware not everything is super in character. I'm also aware I use he/him for Krobus despite headcannoning that he's genderless, pronouns ≠ gender

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Maru: You had blurted the knowledge to her once while you were both talking at a bench in town. While initially stunned, she hugged you and beamed since you trusted her with such information, overjoyed. Eventually, she offered to get Harvey to use your preferred pronouns and change how you're referred medical records.

Haley: Smile and nod strategy. She doesn't know what half the words you said meant, but after some explaining, she offered to take you clothes shopping in ZuZu city next time she went to get something you'd be more comfortable in. She even rifled through her own clothing collection and gave you anything you'd be comfortable in, snapping a photo to save the memory. If there's one thing this woman could do, it was fashion, and you've never felt more comfortable looking in the mirror after your shopping trip.

Emily: She admits that she already knew, vaguely. Something about spirits guiding her to the conclusion, but she appreciated that you told her yourself just as much either way. She offered to tailor your clothes to be more comfortable and was patient and kind when you declined. Whenever you were worried about your transition or got into your own head about it, she meditates with you, assuring you everything would be okay, and lord is she convincing.

Abigail: Her response is pretty much just "cool!" She rants about a game character who has the same identity, tacks on a thank you at the end of the conversation, and continues like normal. This changes nothing for her at all, she never found your gender significant, just knew that you were a close friend and nothing like your gender "changing" would change that, ever.

Leah: She had made a sculpture representing her experience with femininity and, after asking for your opinion on it, you came out to her, hoping it wouldn't change her view of her feedback. She seemed overjoyed about whatever you said of her sculpture, good or bad, absorbed into your response and hardly even addressing that you came out until after the in depth feedback. She was red in embarrassment, apologized, and thanked you for trusting her.

Penny: She holds your hand the moment she senses you're nervous and listens carefully. She eventually admits that she doesn't fully understand, but respects you either way, smiling reassuringly and using whatever pronouns or name you choose. She doesn't use them in front of Pam unless you explicitly say you've come out to Pam.

Sam: My poor boy. He couldn't smile and nod as well as Haley, visibly confused the whole time. He needed multiple explanations on some words and had multiple questions to ask, some of which may have come off ignorant if it wasn't sorta hilarious to hear. It took a long time of you both fiddling with things around his room while Sam asked and you answered any info he needed to understand. Afterwards, he seemed thankful and stoked the farmer had taught him something new, excited to understand you further.

Sebastian: He froze immediately. He had been in his room with you when you admitted it to him, unsure when else would be a good time, and the room was filled with awkward silence. Eventually, he just said "cool" and mentally kicked himself in the leg for being so damn quiet. You were visibly nervous, so he clarified before you left for the night that he fully accepted you and his silence was from his own awkwardness and worry, it had nothing to do with the farmer. He gave you a rare, drawn out hug before you were out the door.

Shane: You're both drunk (Shane more than you) at the saloon when you let it slip. Shane initially seemed surprised you'd tell him something that personal at all, and despite not admitting it, he's touched by getting to know you more. He doesn't drink any more that night, heading home early in a half-successful attempt to remember the conversation. It's one of the few things that makes him come to the realization you trust him, you're not just some surface level acquaintance.

Elliot: You tell him while you're both at the docks and he doesn't seem all that surprised. He gives you some inspiring, poetic advice out of fucking nowhere about how, no matter the identity, your body is a piece of art and is painted by you and you only. He kisses the back of your hand after you two are done talking and later, in his cabin, he changes your dead name and old pronouns to whatever you had chosen as your new title in any poems he included you in.

Alex: ... homophobia in his eyes /j

Alex doesn't understand. He tries to, but he has a hard time wrapping his head around what causes someone to feel a different gender than the one assigned at birth. He respects you anyways and respects your pronouns, occasionally asking a question you've heard about a hundred times in ZuZu city, some of which making you laugh (he lights up in embarrassment every time you do.) Eventually, he decides he doesn't need to understand everything to still love and respect you. After enough time, he has no more questions left to ask, and he feels closer to the farmer.

Harvey: He's surprised at first, but is happy you told him. He changes how you're referred to in your medical records from now on and finds no problem using your new name and pronouns. Every now and then, during check ups, he asks you whether or not you'd be interested in anything that could help you medically transition, and has the same reaction whether you accept or decline. He just doesn't want you to be too nervous to ask him, and he knows a trustworthy doctor out in ZuZu city. He offers you a contact to an online therapist when you complain about gender dysphoria as well as his own undying support.

That's all the bachelors :3

Masterlist of other villagers included: Clint, Dwarf, Jas and Vincent, Krobus, Linus, Pam, Willy, Wizard.

Clint: You tell him while you're both at the saloon. He pretty much just says "oh, okay", and moves on. He respects your pronouns, and also googles "not-offensive trans joke" about a hundred times on Google to tell silly dad jokes later. (The search history is 100% funnier than the jokes.)

Dwarf: Silly guy. While purchasing bombs from him, you let him know you're changing how you wanna be referred to. The dwarf shrugs and gives you your bombs and you both complain about humans unwillingness to understand those that aren't exactly like them. Turns out gender in the monster world is far less complicated and they just do whatever the fuck they want; another rift between monsters and humans that ends up drawing you and the dwarf closer.

Jas and Vincent: Jas is very kind and Vincent is a little shit. Penny had said it may be a good idea to tell both kids at once to refer to the farmer differently with Penny supervising, so that's exactly what they did. Jas smiled and said "okay!" before returning to whatever she was doing before, referring to the farmer how you wanted her to (she occasionally slips up, but she's trying and that's what counts.) Vincent is confused how that even works. He asks you how you figured it out, what happened to make you change, how you can be born as one thing and be another, etc. Some of his questions are hard to answer, simply sounding silly. Eventually, Vincent shrugs and goes "that makes sense," even though he forgets any knowledge he gained within the week.

Krobus: Krobus doesn't really care. He's already genderless, he understands anything you have to say about it and accepts it gracefully. He's unphased, does business as usual, and when you two are closer, asks if humans react poorly when you tell them. You explain the diversity of human interactions and Krobus absorbs the information, gives his condolences, and gripes that humans are too quick to jump to hatred sometimes.

Linus: Somehow, the man knows what everything you said meant despite not having wifi and hardly ever talking to anyone. He's chill as fuck and you share a meal or foraged berries and fish cooked over a fire while you tell him, and he encourages you to share experiences, tell stories by the fire about how it's affected your life. You go home feeling lighter. (I LOVE LINUS!!!!)

Pam: Once again, you're telling someone about it in the saloon. You had just gifted her a beer while you told her that you'd be going by a different title. She seemed mildly annoyed, if anything. Of course, she didn't disagree, but she sighed into her drink, admitting she's gonna forget it every now and then. You assure her it's alright as long as she tries and that you'll remind her, and her annoyance leaves her. She stops referring to you as her "guy/gal" and refers to you as "buddy", continuing to clink your drinks together every time you buy her one and chug as if it were a competition.

Willy: This poor man. You tell him while you're both fishing on the dock and he nods slowly, mulling over the information in his mind. Carefully, he asks, "like a clown fish?" It catches you off guard and draws a laugh out of you before you clarify that no, no your gender is not like a clown fish. You have to help him understand most of what you said and his brows furrowed while taking in the info. You two stopped talking whenever one had to reel in a fish so that you both could focus. He gives you the nickname "snook", and after looking it up, a snook is a fish with no clear gender and known for being tough. (I love him so much 😢😢)

Wizard: Wizard, much like Emily, tells you he knows. Apparently, there's even a spell for things like this, and he immediately offers to perform it for you. He had automatically assumed you'd say yes, explaining that it changes your body to be whatever gender who align with. If you say yes, he provides it for you expecting nothing in return, claiming that magic should help people and if you end up more comfortable, then he's fulfilling his duty as a friend. If you decline, he's surprised, immediately asking "why not?" You explain that you're already comfortable in your body, you don't feel the need to physically transition to align with your mind because you already love your body and mind. Slowly, he nods, and apologized for coming off too strong. He empties his cauldron, though he's a bit upset he's dug himself a hole having to waste materials, and sends you something small in the mail the next day as a better apology.

LESSGOOOOO. I love Pam, wizard, Willy, and Linus, I do NOT care. Anyone I couldn't really think of anything for I didn't write, but I tried my best to include all the bachelors. You can probably tell in some of them that I struggled. I have favorites. 🤭

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