Comments on: Chapter 7, Page 44

By: Borg

Borg — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 22:09:29 +0000

But how’d you do it, Sulla?

(Unless that’s Gimel expressing a preference to not be called “he,” thank you very much Titus.)

By: adspexi

adspexi — Mon, 06 May 2019 10:11:18 +0000

I’m trans myself, and if I died and got reborn in a sparkly transhumanist future- one where you can biohack yourself into anything- but my new body was the same garbage heap‡ I spent my life trying to get away from? If everyone on Earth worshipped the old closeted-me whose name wasn’t even mine? If my ex implied that my gender came from *corrupted data?* Honestly, if Al did go out and fight whoever brought hir back, xie would be 100 percent justified.
‡it doesn’t matter that Al’s original body is hot. dysphoria doesn’t care how objectively attractive you are. the things that Brendan likes about Al’s body (hir muscles, the beard that Al wanted to shave) are exactly the things that mark Al as butch, and that probably fuel hir body issues.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 04 May 2019 08:15:58 +0000

In reply to Leno. I don't think changing Al's body is necessarily THAT easy. Even if it is, Al's still had to deal with feeling wrong, and like a mistake, since their activation (and all their life before that). That is hard to endure.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Sat, 04 May 2019 06:39:58 +0000

In reply to Leno.

Dysphoria doesn’t work that way. Dysphoria doesn’t care. It makes you depressed, and sad, and cranky, and angry. It prevents you from seeing the positive upsides of a situation.

Al is having a breakdown because of dysphoria. Al can’t think straight right now. Once they’ve calmed down they’ll see the upsides, but for now it’s just a dark fog.

By: Anissa

Anissa — Sat, 04 May 2019 00:40:57 +0000

In reply to Leno.

I don’t think Al’s thought that far ahead. We’re seeing what looks like some deep-seated self hatred here, probably lifelong dysphoria that got shoved down under some denial.

Al died and came back into the body that he viewed as a mistake, the body he might very well have spent a lifetime despising. He didn’t choose to come back, someone made that choice FOR him, and they stuck him with THIS.

He may also feel that he can’t change, because he’s so well known.

By: Leno

Leno — Fri, 03 May 2019 22:04:02 +0000

In reply to Sarah. Why would Al care they brought him back in the image of a man? He can just change his parts to whatever he wants, right? If he was trans, why wouldn't he be happy about all of this? He has a second shot at living life how he actually wanted to, and can transition to whatever/whoever he wants extremely easily. I don't understand how this makes sense

By: Foxhack

Foxhack — Fri, 03 May 2019 21:54:39 +0000

In reply to chankonabe. She might have created Al's body and used her own memory engrams to recreate his mind.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 03 May 2019 14:49:14 +0000

In reply to chankonabe.

Al is angry because whoever brought Al back brought Al back in the image of a man, but Al isn’t a man. There’s a BIG unanswered question in OHS of “Who brought Al back?” The final, unattributed line here is “It wasn’t a man [who brought you back]”. Which implies someone knows who it was who brought Al back… and a lot of fans think it was Sulla.

I hope that answered the question!

By: chankonabe

chankonabe — Fri, 03 May 2019 06:29:39 +0000

wait can someone explain whats happening

By: Metmags

Metmags — Fri, 03 May 2019 06:07:41 +0000

This still leaves it open for Sulla (she) or Tsade (they? Do we know what pronouns Tsade uses?) Or we could get a third act twist and it’s been LUCILLE THE WHOLE TIME