Welllllll—

And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.

One of them said something like, "it doesn't bother me that [Friend] was in residential mental health treatment, I just wish they wouldn't talk about it ALL the time".

The other replied, "Well, that was all of last year for them. So when they say 'when I was in treatment,' it's like when you say 'last year'."

The. There’s a lot to it but inherently how their roles in their relationship are “swapped” and subverted yknow. For starters there’s that but it’s not why it fits so well.

I have trans Quibly hcs. And that’s amazing but trans masc Quibly is so special to me bcz oh haha. He doesn’t get taken seriously, he doesn’t seem intimidating. Hes timid, he’s “weaker” but Portia never sees that in him. She treats him the way she treats every other man, always sure to hype him up and give him the space to shine by bragging about him. And making sure no one messes with him in the ways she’s teases him. Because she’s far more aware of what teasing flies well with him and wouldn’t intentionally hurt his feelings with her own teasing.

And then there’s the Portia side of this. Oh I have been holding onto the Portia side of this. Because she was literally born with something “different” about her.

And she has this overarching message and big sign that says she’s making decisions. She’s not letting other people decide what or who she is anymore. And she’s assertive, brash, and sometimes even rude. But she’s caring all at the same time, she likes being carried and called sweet pet names. She loves her husband and being called a *wife*. And she’s so adamant about that because, yes she’s in love. But she calls herself a wife when killing a man that called her an abomination for her powers and the way she was born.