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[(Anonymous)]

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But "coffeeshops" is not a fixed trope, it's just a setting. "Genderswap" is a trope, though, and writing the character's canon gender identity is just not included in the trope.

What you're doing is the equivalent of handwringing over "DNW: only one bed" and mentioning a character owning a house that has only a single bedrooms.

[(Anonymous)]

I think the disagreement is that is what is going on in canon is not "mention of one bed". It's two characters are canonically trapped together in a Canadian shack with only one cot in a snowstorm and have to huddle for warmth for all of canon.

Like yes, genderswap is a trope, but canon can be tropey. These characters are using genderswap tropes. (Also, even if they weren't, for DNWs you don't actually get to say "yes I wrote the thing they don't want, but not in a trope-y way!”)

Like nobody has yet articulated how "character who swaps from one binary gender to the other because magic" and "character is just like original character, but the female version from another universe" aren't exactly the tropes, except by saying it's ok because it's canon. (Given what this canon is tbh they're likely part of what originated the tropes in old slash fandom.)

[(Anonymous)]

Is it a character swaps from one binary gender to the other through magic, because that's very different to a character being genderfluid, which was what was originally said in this thread. A canonically genderfluid character can be written without violating the DNW, so long as you write them as being genderfluid.

Female character from another universe is canonically female, so writing her as that does not violate the DNW.

[(Anonymous)]

What was originally said was "canonically magically genderfluid", which wasn't super-specific but is definitely not saying the character is just the normal modern kind of genderfluid. Seems pretty clear that it's going to involve the character changing from one gender to another due to magic, what with the magic.

I don't think anyone argued in this thread that writing the character as female would be a DNW violation, but that going into detail about her relationships to her counterpart or focusing on her backstory might, since those do presumably come pretty close to common genderswap tropes.