Rain:449: Lady

Synopsis

Vincent recounts to Rain his first time meeting her family, when a young Aiken and baby Rain assumed Vincent was a woman.

Author Notes

This section contains copyrighted content by Jocelyn Samara DiDomenick.

Well played, Vincent. It's good to laugh. I find having a good sense of humor has been kind of crucial to my transition. It helps separate the innocently uninformed comments from the malicious ones, and prevents unnecessary fighting or dysphoria. I speak purely for myself, of course, but being able to laugh is much preferred to feeling like I have to cry. But if you can adopt such a philosophy, I do think it's worth it. :)

Anyway "Ryan", Aiken, and Kellen's designs here are all loosely based how they looked on the first page (mind you, this is technically even before that). Again, this became tricky as even a year or two can be a big difference when kids are that young. Especially in the case of little "Ryan."

But actually, the most troublesome one here was Kellen. Quite inadvertantly, the ponytail she sports on the very first page is almost exactly the same as how Chanel wears it. I decided to move Kellen's ponytail up to a higher point on her head as a result. I mean, obviously Chanel wouldn't be here (she wasn't even born yet!), but I was worried about someone being confused, especially given the monochrome.

Transcript

This section contains copyrighted content by Jocelyn Samara DiDomenick.

Vincent Valverde:

She invited me to meet her family once. It didn't go so well.

Flashback:

Liriel Flaherty:
I wish I could be happy for you, Fara, but... a woman? You want to be a teacher, right? What kind of example does that set for future students?

Liriel Flaherty:
And what does she want? Does she think she's a rockstar or something?

"Vivian" Valverde:
Think!?

Kellen Flaherty:
Why is Aunt Fara dating a girl?

"Vivian" Valverde:
Maybe I'm not a girl.

Aiken Flaherty:
You have boobs, lady. You're obviously a girl.

"Vivian" Valverde:
How about you, little one? What do you think of me?

Ryan Flaherty:
Boob lady!

"Vivian" Valverde:
I don't know what I expected...