Yeah, I’m just gonna have to say I think you’re solidly and COMPLETELY wrong on that front.

last night, i had worked on a smart, insightful response (one which i had meditated on for several days)..

..so of course. some funky thing happened, that apparently ate it.

i know that my comment was submitted, because i got the “hey! dawg!! this is a Duplicate Comment you’re tryna push through!” sctick when i (of course) tried re-submitting when i didn’t see my thoughts show up, per usualum

blue..
..i’m gonna be shedding tears here. . . . .

you’re correct about me, rosie.

for, if allie does want to be a woman, he’s certainly doing a good job of not showing that desire to us.

one “flaw” (i lack a better word — my apologies) in this sort of narrative is, we readers just can’t know what’s what, until the narrator is ready for us to know.
if Narrator does ever want us to know.
we’re not-at-all freely-privied to the Peripheries of this story, while the narrator prepares, for our viewing, what she wants us to see.

so, i am content to assume that alastair wants to remain male.
or, that if alastair wants to be female, he’s expressed this to absolutely no one.
it is enough that he’s [a sexy daddy {cockmuncher}]; it has been.. ..quite some time, since O Human Star‘s begun.
yeah?
i know i’m a little obtuse, in deciphering symbolism, and between-line reading; but i don’t think it’s too much to ask, that such a major ‘thing’ might have been made more evident, even through only one simple line (or, maybe, a Dream) by now?
i know about the poster, and the dancing doll, but any standard gay male may have One Feminine Quirk to his name (no matter how butch he naturally is).

that was lucy referencing herself, specifically, i know.
but, lucy was—by proxy—also empathizing with al’s own predicament.

lucy’s the Main Brains of her enterprise.
just as Al (was currently) is.
brendan’s. . .not quite there, yet.

they’re both Irregulars.

I think the server ate my reply. For Sulla, it was no big deal; she was a child. It was as simple as flipping a switch. For Al, for any adult, a huge traumatic thing, but for Sulla, just a detail. And they are headed for a future where a hop to an immortal robot body, your choice of sex, is going to be easy as flipping a switch. Gender will have a whole new meaning.

Remember Sulla was fairly young when she wanted her gender changed, and apparently didn’t make a huge deal out of it. Stuff is simpler for kids. You are totally correct about it being a major deal for ordinary people, like Al. I’m just saying we don’t know what it is with Al yet, and that we may get clues from Sulla’s behavior but she is being raised guilt-free. I’m not trying to downplay anyone’s struggles in the real world by speculating on characters in a webcomic, though.
I think it’s worth noting that she is in the closet about being an AI, but not about sexuality.

What the heck? Where did you get that idea from? I don’t know a single trans person for whom that was the thought process to alert them to their being such, and considering I am trans myself I know quite a lot.
And Sulla was interested in the kid I temporarily forgot the name of while she still thought the entire group was girls, so I’m really not seeing this.