Pink haired siren girl. She was unintentionally created without a personality by Honey, when she broke into the HRC. After Honey left, Crystal was completed and allowed to leave the HRC.
Electronics University student. Attends the same school as Honey and David. He is Crystal's love interest, but is so shy as to be nearly oblivious to her affections.
Huh, that’s actually an interesting point. Maybe that kind of treatment is much harder to program into one’s helix? The genes for eyesight have gotta be monstrously complicated. Probably much less so than the genes for gender.
Or, alternatively, the glasses company holds a monopoly over people‘s helices. Through lobbying, under-the-table deals, and sponsorship, none of the Helix employees dare to go against their eyesight baron overlords.
My guess would be Sailor Sun, I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle, and El Goonish Shive. All three are comics which frequently (but not always) feature TG elements, and all three are currently going through TG-heavy storylines (well, EGS is doing FtM TG in the NP section, at least).
Yeah, but Misfile is a little more serious about the topic than most others. Not that I’m complaining; it’s got a great story, and the artwork is good too.
How can you be sure that the genes for eyesight are less complicated than those for gender and hair length? The fact that optometrists even exist in the SS.org universe suggests that fixing one’s eyesight with helix edits is either impossible, risky, illegal, or prohibitively expensive.
Well, technically for a gender swap, you “just” have to swap-out the Y chromosome for an X chromosome. Editing individual DNA pairs would require much more finesse.
I assume Ethan’s machine swapped his Y chromosome for Honey’s X chromosome and maybe even his maternal X chromosome (since his Y chromosome must have came from his father).
Of course even if you could swap chromosomes, you wouldn’t get instantaneous physical changes.
Or, I guess, you could add-in one or both of Honey’s X chromosomes in addition to Ethan’s X and Y. That would allow Ethan to selectively activate different genetic attributes.
Assuming that features that are controlled by individual genes in the real world retain that feature here despite the change from DNA to Helices, it wouldn’t even require that.
In the real world, gender is selected by a small number of genes that are normally found only on the Y chromosome, but are known to transpose to X. If all of them are present, regardless of which chromosome they’re on, you get a fully functional male. If none are present, you get a fully functional female. With a partial set, you get the various forms of androgyny and intersexualism.
You got to look at the various types of blindness and realize sight can be complicated. Macular degeneration, repnititus pigmentosus, cataracts, tunnel vision, near sighted, far sighted color blindness and these are just the tip of the iceberg. It’s best not to mess with sight beyond eye coloration if it can be helped. You probably don’t want neko/cat vision and start seeing ghosts even when they don’t want to be seen.
Hah! Crystal has some interesting ideas! I like where this side story is going 🙂
Well, she knows what she wants.
Hmm, making Ethan up to look even more like Honey–might she be expressing some latent feelings for Honey here?
Other than the skin tone and hair color, TG’ed Ethan looks like Honey’s twin. Also, yay for girl on girl kissing!
yay lesbian smouch time ext?
notice that she accents the cleavage 😛
Crystal likes to get a little freaky it looks like. She might have a little girl crush on her friend Honey as well.
You’d think with all the modifications they can do to someone that they’d fix a simple little thing like bad sight.
Huh, that’s actually an interesting point. Maybe that kind of treatment is much harder to program into one’s helix? The genes for eyesight have gotta be monstrously complicated. Probably much less so than the genes for gender.
Or, alternatively, the glasses company holds a monopoly over people‘s helices. Through lobbying, under-the-table deals, and sponsorship, none of the Helix employees dare to go against their eyesight baron overlords.
Well, there’s no such a thing like genes for gender :P. It’s all about the chromosomes combination. XX woman XY man
I’m happy three of the comics I follow are hitting the gender bending plot points in the story’s . 🙂
@Xloismustdiex: What are the other comics that are hitting the Gender Bender plot points?
My guess would be Sailor Sun, I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle, and El Goonish Shive. All three are comics which frequently (but not always) feature TG elements, and all three are currently going through TG-heavy storylines (well, EGS is doing FtM TG in the NP section, at least).
Misfile is another GB comic as well….sorta
Yeah, but Misfile is a little more serious about the topic than most others. Not that I’m complaining; it’s got a great story, and the artwork is good too.
Who wants to bet Crystal will meet up with Honey and mistake her for Ethan?
…maybe Crystal noticed something about Ethan beforehand?
Well, I think that can be considered conclusive.
They can alter the entire chromosome base pair code while causing instant hair growth but they can’t repair 4 DNA lines to repair eyesight?
I am beginning to doubt the scientific reliability of web comics.
I am also questioning whether genies are real as well.
How can you be sure that the genes for eyesight are less complicated than those for gender and hair length? The fact that optometrists even exist in the SS.org universe suggests that fixing one’s eyesight with helix edits is either impossible, risky, illegal, or prohibitively expensive.
Sounds like someone is in the pocket of Big Opto. 🙂
I’m starting to agree with JJ here, I smell conspiracy theory!
😀
Well, technically for a gender swap, you “just” have to swap-out the Y chromosome for an X chromosome. Editing individual DNA pairs would require much more finesse.
I assume Ethan’s machine swapped his Y chromosome for Honey’s X chromosome and maybe even his maternal X chromosome (since his Y chromosome must have came from his father).
Of course even if you could swap chromosomes, you wouldn’t get instantaneous physical changes.
Or, I guess, you could add-in one or both of Honey’s X chromosomes in addition to Ethan’s X and Y. That would allow Ethan to selectively activate different genetic attributes.
Somehow you still need a second X chromosome.
Assuming that features that are controlled by individual genes in the real world retain that feature here despite the change from DNA to Helices, it wouldn’t even require that.
In the real world, gender is selected by a small number of genes that are normally found only on the Y chromosome, but are known to transpose to X. If all of them are present, regardless of which chromosome they’re on, you get a fully functional male. If none are present, you get a fully functional female. With a partial set, you get the various forms of androgyny and intersexualism.
You got to look at the various types of blindness and realize sight can be complicated. Macular degeneration, repnititus pigmentosus, cataracts, tunnel vision, near sighted, far sighted color blindness and these are just the tip of the iceberg. It’s best not to mess with sight beyond eye coloration if it can be helped. You probably don’t want neko/cat vision and start seeing ghosts even when they don’t want to be seen.
Yes–focal issues (i.e. the stuff that can be corrected with just eyeglasses) is merely the simplest of various vision problems.
I guess crytal had some fantasies about her best friend lol.