GIRLTAVROS TRUTH

I think this is beautiful and you keep up the good work! Passion Flamed is Passion Felt, always remember that! mIrAcLeS to you ):0)

once youre done with this one will the next random tavros panel someone asks for get its own essay also

it wwould seem a rivval has appeared.

im a fan of your work, critical support! 🫡

okay so i think we are ready for tavroses horns are a source of dysphoria

page 2114 . tavros attempts and fails to get in her cocoon , but is barred entry by her comically large horns . she is surrounded by the fairy imagery in her room because she likes fairies . what does this mean

simple really : cocoons in normal non troll insects are spun to undergo metamorphasis ; to become their new + true self . the caterpillar into butterfly has been used as trans metaphor for many a year now 💭 tavros being barred entry by her bull horns ( see : male by definition ) = tavros being unable to undergo this metamorphasis because of her masculine horns .

this happens while she is surrounded by troll fairy girls , because she likes them .... but i would now like you to look at your tab or whatever that is open to homestuck and zoom in on some of those fairy girls . get a look at their horns . theyre small yes but they do bear a resemblance to tavroses ... i do not think that is nothing .

see : tavros is unable to enter her cocoon because of her masculine bull horns , and this happens while she is surrounded by dainty fairy girls with similar but far smaller horns than her

tavroses hero is pupa , but her room is covered in these fairy girls ... she could find them very cute in a crush sort of way of course . i do not think that is at all off the table . but i think its worth considering them as a source of gender envy , and tavroses own horns as a source of dysphoria ... food for thought 🍔💭

I brought this up in the discord, but I think it's food for thought that Pupa Pan, or, well, Peter, is a boy character that's traditionally played by a woman on stage.

truth nuke. also something something breath players and freedom theres probably connections to be made here with june too

this is tuff i believe every word you say girltavros thank yuo girltavros girl tavros is actually really good i think a lot of trans headcanons can be really good and this is one of them

> TAVROS: aND, sHE WILL BE SUPER NICE, aND SOFT,

> "BoySkylark" on the forum sign-up page: bIG THINGS, hAVE HUMBLE BEGINNINGS, sOMETIMES,

From where I'm sitting the evidence is frankly irrefutable that Tavros will become not just any girl, but a big girl.

She's been FLARPING as the Boy-skylark class with Aradia, the local depressed goth tgirl with a big heart. Aradia says the class is particularly tough since only useful at high-levels, textually setting up the grindy, transformative element of it all.

Later on, Vriska (out, gatekeepy trans woman) might be dabbling in a little "cringe culture" by harming Tavros, specifically out of a desire to be "every Boy-skylark's worst nightmare". She might be roughly initiating her eggy sisters to try and push them out of the chaotic transitional st8 of figuring stuff out as fast as possible, so she doesn't get second-hand dysphoria and feel bad about her own passing.
Yes, Vriska 100% weaponizes her second-hand dysphoria on other trans women.

After Tavros gets paralyzed due to the major fall Vriska pushed her into, Karkat tells Tavros to "STOP PLAYING GAMES FOR GIRLS." which is an ironical joke about the fact that the games for girls (Tavros & Aradia were playing together) has turned into a multi-layered, dramatically interpersonal TO-THE-DEATH BATTLE-ROYALE FOR GIRLS.
The Gamer Girls have changed Gaming Pace, and from here Aradia wants to avenge Tavros's proportionally insane egg-crack Vriska forced upon her, causing some more tgirl-on-tgirl violence.

Another interesting detail is that the full BOY-SKYLARK song by rj lake directly narrates ACT 1. Refering to June by (dead)name, it follows up on all the themes of being "born strangely", being extremely clumsy & doing a mess everywhere (the goofy sylladex inventory shenanigans that very much mirror Tavros's clumsiness)as well as all of it not being too productive (Tavros's entire FLARP sessions and her love for useless side quests).
The song also hammers in on that oddly specific detail : the deadname "John" being somehow imposed at 13 years old, roughly around the start of puberty (if not a little later into it). This one detail has always been puzzling CIS READERS OF HOMESTUCK (demographic : small) but every normal person understands the implications of growing "too far" off the potential to choose your own name & gender presentation, especially around the PESTERSOME PROCESS OF PUBERTY. This is ALSO important for Tavros, as we will see later.

user Turnip (banging pfp my man) did well to bring up the parallels with June (and even Andrew Hussie herself, which I am the one to bring up here because I'm very silly). All three characters have links to the boy-skylark/man-skylark classes, both Tavros and June belonging to the breath aspect, they're all various flavors & temporalities of TRANSGENDER.

I think user Rei Mawura is also onto something, with the observation that Tavros obviously struggles with the space she takes up, which as OP pointed out is presented (comically so, but still) as a first physical disability she has to deal with. The little fairies having smaller horns is expressing her wish to get smaller, take much less space, which is then ironically defused by Vriska putting her in a wheelchair. That much is putting Tavros in a state where she has to accept her material body's limitations, and accept that she will be a BIG GIRL (for the horns mostly, but the wheelchair is also a heavy piece of equipment, especially if rockets are strapped to it. Not physically disabled myself, I am only assuming things here & this is not my best conclusion whatsoever.)

This entire thing about size might also be mirrored with June's old clothes she's wearing in Beyond Canon, too small for her grown-ass woman body, but she doesn't care much. Please don't let Vriska see this she will start on yet another major wave of tgirl-sanctioned transmisogyny.

Anyway good post OP

I also noticed today that there was a Tavros wearing the fairy dress in the Ministrife all along...

She rocks that white dress !! I cant seem to share the image but that sprite is precious. Her vulnerable but happy expression, that's pretty much a confirmation.

came to a discovery last night :

AG: Isn't that what you want, Tavros? To 8e like Pupa?
AG: Of course you do! What 8oy wouldn't want to 8e like Pupa! So dashing and 8rave.
AG: He is everything you are not!
AG: For one thing, he can flyyyyyyyy.
AG: Do you want to flyyyyyyyy, Tavros?
AG: Have you ever tried to fly? I 8et you haven't!

(page 2174)

like ... ok . obviously loaded wording aside , tavros DOES want to be pupa , right ..?

so i tallied up every time pupa pan is mentioned :
tavros likes pupa, does not necessarily want to be him - 1
vriska imposes the identity of pupa onto tavros - 4
tavros is compared to pupa via the narration - 1
tavros refers to herself as pupa, in a way that is specifically reclaiming it from vriska - 1
misc - 2

note this only counts 'pupas' per scene , there would be wayyy more in ' vriska imposes the identity of pupa onto tavros ' otherwise

its also worth noting that in one scene , it is tavros being told to dress as pupa leading up to her sexual assault / repeatedly being referred to as him during it . in another , its meenah specifically calling tavros ' pupa pansy ' , one of many insults for an effeminate man . which is kind of nothing burger , but notable for my purposes ...

so .. DOES tavros want to be pupa pan ? any 8oy would .. hm /OBVIOUS IMPLICATION

now obviously , her flarp character IS based off of pupa pan . but i do think its worth noting that 1 , tavros takes flarp way less seriously than vriska and terezi ( i have compared her to ' a cosplayer accidentally getting caught up in kin drama ' , which i will not apologise for ) , and 2 , vriska and terezi dont necessarily ' like ' being their characters either . mindfang is a horrible role model for vriska , and part of her arc is growing up into her own person . the same goes for terezi , whos biggest mistake is playing the role of redglare and killing vriska . so like , ok . the pupa pan shit is less intense . but i definitely think some thought should be given to the fact that its repeatedly affirmed that tavros Becoming a pupa-like character would kind of fucking suck . cus shes a girl . much to think about

random scraps that arent very good but i may as well write out :

-lusii genders match their ward , tavros has a boy lusus but has named him after a fairy girl
-... cough . you know how everything gamzee does is an icp reference . well . its not called cemetery boy now is it

MY (NOW) LITTLE SISTER (WHO IS A TAVROS KINNIE) READ THIS POST AND THEN CAME OuT TO ME AS TRANSFEM. YOuR HELPING POOR TAVVYS FIND THEIR WAY, IRL AND NOT! I COMMEND YOu, DEAR GIRLTAVROS.