BayBay Smith is a main character. Once a guy, she was turned into a girl several years ago. She keeps this fact a secret, and only a handful of people know. She's now a struggling actress whose roommate is actually her daughter from an alternate future timeline. Comics: 737 |
BerryBerry is a time traveling alternate version of Bay. She lives in Ottawa with her boyfriend Trav. Comics: 102 |
HeatherBay's twin sister. Kidnapped at birth, she has been raised by a wealthy adoptive family in Buffalo, New York. Comics: 129 |
HoneyTime traveling, alternate timeline daughter of Bay. Honey is extremely book smart, but not very street smart. She lives with Bay. Comics: 603 |
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Bayberry VS Heatherheart: Dawn of Bridesmaids
I get a better vibe from that than BvS, so it ought to be good.
That movie title made me giggle, thanks. 🙂
So we’re just going to gloss over the fact that poor Brad just got super screwed in the worst way? Being a slave to a colossal mistake and cover up? How are we supposed to enjoy the story now? This took a very unsettling turn.
Bay is happy with her life that’s what is important. Life never turns out like you planned. Bay’s took a wild crazy ride but in the end happiness is what is important. I just hope she can reconnect with her mom by the end of the comic.
“I just hope she can reconnect with her mom by the end of the comic.”
Me too.
Wondering how mom would take finding out she has at least two extra daughters than she thought possible and grandkids that a the same person too.
I used to think happiness was what was important too. Then I played Dragon Age: Origins. In it, there’s a demon which creates the illusion of a person’s desires, while keeping him alive and feeding off his life energy for decades. The person is perfectly happy, arguably happier than he ever could have been in real life since the illusion doesn’t suffer the warts that real life has.
The player is given the choice to allow it to continue, or to kill the demon. That one got me thinking really hard about how important happiness was. I’ve since decided that free will is more important than happiness. And this twist in the story removed some of Brad’s free will. A part of the original being that was Brad has been erased – killed off and what remains is made a slave to an artificial desire.
I think you’re going way over the top calling Brad a “slave” to Tom’s mistake. The only thing that changed about him is that he became attracted to muscular men (and maybe got a bit bustier? It’s hard to say). It’s not like he was forced to act on that attraction.
Heck, look at Berry, who by dint of also being Bay, went through the same procedure. She ended up with Trav, an entirely non-muscular dude (i.e. a nerd), who also happens to be her childhood best friend, giving them entirely natural grounds upon which to build a romance.
“It’s not like he was forced to act on that attraction”? How very wrong. The fact that Brad’s mind was messed with to even have that attraction is wrong. I’m glad I’m not the only one disturbed by these turn of events. It’s kind of tragic. I hope it was the writer’s intent for us to see it this way so that when things are fixed, there’s a sense of “Okay, it’s all better now”
“When things are fixed”? Are you expecting Bay to become Brad again? Despite her impending wedding to the man she loves? That seems highly unlikely…
Note: I am not the writer, and I have no idea where he’s going to take the story. But I strongly doubt the thing you appear to consider “broken” are going to be “fixed”.
That plot line disturbed me a bit too- I suppose Bay has adapted easily enough, but of course she has, why would Tom (with total control of her personality) make her bothered by it?
At least in Honey’s timeline at least, we know the HRC ends up being abolished at some point.
Why would Tom even know that he failed to fully restore Brad’s original (Bay-mode) helix? The way he messed up means that he wouldn’t even notice if he’d made a mistake while reversing the changes he’d made. So he definitely didn’t “make her not be bothered by” the changes he accidentally left in there.
Fixing it now after 5 years would make things even worse. Besides sexuality is a spectrum and at no point has CD said where Brad was on it. Changing bodies would include changing brains to some degree.
The more worrying thing is if some malevolent person worked at Toms job and just screwed people up for S&G. Tom did try to fix every thing so he is basic a good guy.
have to agree with Vegan etal those few pages totally changed the dynamic of the whole comic story of Brad. He never had a choice everything was decided for him whether on purpose or accident
They wiped out Brad’s mind and put in some backup that is altered in some way. That’s. Just. Wrong. This straight up became a horror story.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think Dixie made Bay like guys. I think it was Tom forgetting to fix an aspect of Bay’s DNA or Helix, or whatever it’s called.
I’m just making a wild speculation here, but, back when we saw the options printout for Brad/Dixie, Tom was giving “her” lesbian overtones. When he went back and restored all the settings this may have resulted in Brad gaining “homosexual” preferences; that is an attraction for muscular men. Conversely, such an attraction could have been an element that just snuck through the overwrite. Either way, as “she” is now a female in gender, such a preference is not seen as homosexual but it is causing her to be drawn to buff males and responding to them romantically as a girl.