may i suggest to you trans man peter quill
- his mom is obviously open minded as hell and rolls with the punches, just accepting that her new boyfriend is from space so she’s always been ready for whatever life throws at her. which just happens to be a wild half alien kid who loves music and chaos.
- she used to call him star lady until he said he didn’t want to be a star lady, she was just like “well, you don’t have to. you can be a star lord if you want to” and it just stuck
- he’s always been a “tomboy” and the other kids found it kinda weird but he never really tried to change
- he cut his hair short himself and it was Really Bad. like super messy. but his mom thought it was cute and it was easy to brush off as ‘oh, you know how kids are…’ instead of explaining why she professionally got his hair cut short
- when yondu decided he wasn’t gonna give him over to ego, he cut peter’s hair short. almost a buzz cut so it’s harder to recognize the kid and so he doesn’t get his hair stuck anywhere when he’s sneaking into small places. there’s no way ego’s gonna recognize the kid if he’s looking for a daughter instead of this short haired, scruffy, dirty kid. peter’s really excited about the hair cut and yondu’s like, ‘sure. whatever makes you happy, kid’
- when he’s out helping yondu on jobs, people start calling him boy and he’s just like “yes. i am a boy.” and that’s really all there was to it. There’s No Homophobia Or Transphobia In Space (and yondu’s silently thanking whatever’s out there because he really wasn’t prepared to have a daughter)
- yondu’s like ‘well shit. guess you better choose a name, kiddo’ and 13 year old peter is just like ‘star lord. my name’s star lord now’ but after kraglin says no, he can’t change his name to star lord no matter how awesome it might sound, peter compromises by making it his middle name and his name is legally peter star lord quill
- yondu steals peter the best hormones that money can buy, doctor’s offices make the kid jumpy and he doesn’t blame him, so peter ends up with a bunch of stick on HRT patches because they’re not heathens out in the galaxy, only earth (which is still in the dark ages compared to everywhere else) still uses needles