Red was a boy until a new genie tried to get Melvin a girlfriend. That's when the genie turned Red into a girl so Melvin could practice talking to girls, and forgot to turn her back before disappearing. Red is hopeful that her situation is only temporary.
Bay had her recreated male self done with his memories as Male Brad at the forefront and the memories as Female Bay suppressed, which keeps them from being so mentally identical that they would fight over who gets ownership over various parts of their identity. Ellen meanwhile had to contend with Elliot having total ownership of her past and thus needing to build a new identity more or less from scratch, though this was helped by family and friends who wanted to include her.
I think that Melvin will not actually get the chance to use the MacGuffin on Red because Kazom will come in and confiscate it from him in order to use it against the Blue Djinn as seen in IDOAJB.
spell casters are in-between FULL FLEDGED Magic Wielders, and FULL FLEDGED Humans. it’s a 50/50 shot on the item being used on Red, to turn her back to normal.
It may depend upon to what degree being a Witch/Wizard is genetic (innate) vs. learned/granted. If Witches are exclusively “born, not made”, then they are inherently magical beings, whereas if someone without Witch blood can become one without having to alter their very nature (as a human is altered when becoming a Genie, for example), then it’s merely an add-on trait.
Melvin wants the Quat Uzma because he was told it was the only thing that could de-transform Red. No one told him that he can’t use it. I suspect most readers assumed “magical being” means beings made of magic like genies. Witches like Melvin can use magic but so far we’ve seen nothing that would imply they are “magical beings” in the sense of being made of the stuff.
That being said, Quat Uzma is unstable and one wrong move and almost anything can happen even if you didn’t want it to happen. Case in point when Jeanie use it on the Blue Djinn while he was in Jeanie body. The swapping of Jeanie back into her old body and Blue Djinn into that human look alike body that Jeanie came in with, it was a surprise ending to that arc. Nobody was expecting that. If Melvin uses the Quat Uzma, there could be and probably will be another surprise that we weren’t expecting. After all, it is chaotic magic and it unstable and almost anything can happen here.
There you go again, teasing me with the possibility of frog tf.
Actually, I would prefer that both Melvin and Red change places with each other and have Melvin in Tiffany body and have Red in Melvin body.
It would be MORE fun if simply Red becomes a boy again, and MELVIN changes into a girl.
I’m just here to complete the set
There is a chance that Melvin would just split Red into two individuals, one a boy and the other a girl.
There WOULD be precedent for that (see El Goonish Shive) … but I don’t think it would be so simple to do THAT accidentally.
They did that in MISFILE, too.
Hollum has gone on record as not being fond of how SailorSun.org took that solution to Bay’s problem, so I find that unlikely.
isnt the way bay handled distinctively different than elgoonish shive/misfile
@parker:
Bay had her recreated male self done with his memories as Male Brad at the forefront and the memories as Female Bay suppressed, which keeps them from being so mentally identical that they would fight over who gets ownership over various parts of their identity. Ellen meanwhile had to contend with Elliot having total ownership of her past and thus needing to build a new identity more or less from scratch, though this was helped by family and friends who wanted to include her.
Except by accident.
I think that Melvin will not actually get the chance to use the MacGuffin on Red because Kazom will come in and confiscate it from him in order to use it against the Blue Djinn as seen in IDOAJB.
Kazom said only a non-magic being could use it. Is a wizard a magic being? (https://jeaniebottle.com/archives/comic/jeanie-bottle-558)
spell casters are in-between FULL FLEDGED Magic Wielders, and FULL FLEDGED Humans. it’s a 50/50 shot on the item being used on Red, to turn her back to normal.
It may depend upon to what degree being a Witch/Wizard is genetic (innate) vs. learned/granted. If Witches are exclusively “born, not made”, then they are inherently magical beings, whereas if someone without Witch blood can become one without having to alter their very nature (as a human is altered when becoming a Genie, for example), then it’s merely an add-on trait.
Melvin wants the Quat Uzma because he was told it was the only thing that could de-transform Red. No one told him that he can’t use it. I suspect most readers assumed “magical being” means beings made of magic like genies. Witches like Melvin can use magic but so far we’ve seen nothing that would imply they are “magical beings” in the sense of being made of the stuff.
That being said, Quat Uzma is unstable and one wrong move and almost anything can happen even if you didn’t want it to happen. Case in point when Jeanie use it on the Blue Djinn while he was in Jeanie body. The swapping of Jeanie back into her old body and Blue Djinn into that human look alike body that Jeanie came in with, it was a surprise ending to that arc. Nobody was expecting that. If Melvin uses the Quat Uzma, there could be and probably will be another surprise that we weren’t expecting. After all, it is chaotic magic and it unstable and almost anything can happen here.