I think one of the reasons I feel so passionate about transfem Ralsei is because chapter 5 genuinely captures the closeted trans struggle so well not even as an allegory but as the actual textual arc of the character. The idea that if you don’t follow the rules, if you don’t present how you’re “supposed to,” it could genuinely ruin your entire life
In this case the prophecy is a stand in for family, friends, broader society which have all assigned you a gender that you have to present and perform as even if you don’t want to, and transitioning means you risk losing all that support. That’s why it hurts to see people denying that it could happen or even saying it would be bad writing or ruin their femboy identity, because they’re doing the same thing. They have this role for them as a cute uwu femboy in their head and they get mad at the suggestion that the role could change.
