So like I’m still thinking about deidara bein new in akatsuki and expectations vs reality and I just

Imagine like someone. Zetsu probably. Takes him on a tour or whatever and formally introduces him to the other members and says “by the way sometimes Kisame’s a girl so be careful of that” and dei’s like wait what so Zetsu repeats and

"So y’all don’t question that ever it’s just a thing?"

"Basically."

"Like he just says it and you respect that."

"Yeah why wouldn’t we"

And at this point at least one other person in the room is kinda side-eyeing him because they’re all expecting this to be followed up with some douchebaggery but instead it’s followed up by gross baby sobbing because never in his life before has deidara been in an environment where he didn’t have to be belligerently defensive about his gender or not been given boatloads of shit for it and he didn’t think people like this even existed