small background for any trans!Maggie headcanons I have. I wrote it ages ago, and @change-the-rules swears I posted it already, but I can’t find it? so have it again it I did, I’ve edited it a little anyway.
tw for transphobia, homophobia, and mention of coercive rape
She has always been Maggie.
To herself, at least.
Her earliest memories are sitting in her abuela’s lap listening to the stories written just for her and her sister.
(her abuela was a writer, you see – published, even – but these, these were just for them)
Margarita, one of their special characters, was a princess who was also a knight. She was often mistaken for a man when she was in her armor.
And Maggie, five years old, with close cropped hair and a football themed bedroom, knew that was her. A princess who was also a knight, but was always mistaken for a boy.
Published
Question of Smoke 