How I deal with Bobby's gender varies by the context. In canon context, she's a cross-dresser, a boy who's a girl who's not quite a man or a woman. I haven't yet exactly decided where exactly I'm going with it all, but I've been playing around with the idea of identity changes and draft dodging (World War 1 starts distressingly soon) and how it ties in with how violence and gender roles made her what she is. In modern AUs, they're nonbinary as well as transfem, though usually I think they ID as binary trans for a bit before coming out as NB.
Before I settled with my current iteration, I used to play around with genderfluid/agender any pronouns bobby, much closer to my own identity and presentation.
LIKES
bad movies
butterflies
sewing
ice cream
DISLIKES
Hamilton, Ontario
Winnipeg, Manitoba
tea
Fun fact : She was raised on classic Broadway, courtesy of her dad. She never took to it like her brother did, but she's still fond of it, and her favourite musical is Sweeney Todd.
In most modern AUs, I don’t actually imagine Bobby as having killed Gerard. It says something about us, to want to ignore and forget about the harsher realities of canon for something easier to digest.
JUNIOR
they/he | queer - nonbinary - aromantic
I headcanon Junior as hating their name, in part due to transgenderism, in part due to association with his father and in part because Lyle is just uhhhh ummm. not ideal. My name for them is usually Juliet, though sometimes I also consider and play around with the possibility of Julian/Julien/Jules !
Juliet from, yes, Romeo and Juliet, as well as also one of my own names. Juliet, simultaneously an icon of great romance, youthful defiance, and tragic adolescence. Juliet, a kid caught up in the circumstance of her parents' issues. Junior, caught up in a situation he isn't even aware of, his parents' circumstances unknown to him. Junior, who I love to imagine deep underneath that cynicism and ennui, wishes for something simple and beautiful, like a fairy tale, like a love story, though they cannot wholly place themself in the role. (Ohoho Jules and aromanticism is a whole other thing)
One immutable thing for Juliet to me is their hair. I latch on hard to that exchange in the Murdoch Knows Best where he and his father chafe against each other, his father pestering him to get a haircut. In modern AUs, Juliet dyes it purple, like Mania by Fall Out Boy. They'll probably try different colours later on, hot pink and turquoise and brat green... but purple is the main one.
LIKES
animation
Shakespeare
pop punk
late nights in the city
DISLIKES
haircuts
talking about their feelings
their father
ON : TRANSGENDER HEADCANONS
FUN ALTERNATE UNIVERSES
pokémon
Bobby's team
Poliwrath - Fished up from the river as a Poliwag when Bobby was a kid !
Vivillon - Caught as a Scatterbug when Bobby was a kid !
Junior's team
Purrloin - A childhood pet. Really fits the Anderson vibe, I think. Eventually evolves into Liepard.
Drizzile - Acquired as a Sobble as a starter Pokémon ! Drizzile is the perfect Lyle Anderson Jr Pokémon To Me. Because not only is it emo. But it evolves into a SPY
Drifloon - Junior's a morbid bastard who delights in morbid scenarios ; Drifloon are literally edgy with how they're said to carry children away to never be seen again. They think it's funny but then truly grow fond of it.
Morgrem - look me in the eye and tell me they don't look the same. Caught as an Impidimp.
