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    Dabat got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Monday February 13, 2017   
    That's the first thing I saw too. I saw the rant coming (I'd be ranting too), so the seemingly much larger breasts drew my eye. I still want to give her a gigantic hug, I'd be at least as pissed in her shoes.
     
     
    Plus Grace wont be losing her magic. She'll be one of the only people on earth who wont be. It's also been heavily hinted (I thought it was stated, but I can't remember where) that she is much more powerful than most hybrids or Uryuoms, so she will potentially be one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, person on earth if Magic decides to take its ball and go home. I don't think Tedd blames her for this at all, but I would be very jealous in her shoes.
     
    As for being more female... I just read the card game storyline a few days ago, I think Tedd is much more, um, "Top-Heavy" in this comic then she was in that story line. I agree that it's likely that she is accidentally using her mark... Or perhaps her mark has reacted with the TF gun somehow to give her even more abilities. Not likely, but possible.
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    Dabat reacted to Pharaoh RutinTutin in Story: Monday February 13, 2017   
    Imagine the following scenario.
    Tedd arrived at a restaurant and found the dining room filled with everyone worth meeting ever and they were all dining on steak, lobster, and decadent deserts.  The maître d' slowly leads Tedd thorough the room pointing out the guests and menu options on the way.
    Just before being shown the table, the waiter asks Tedd to pay the $200.00 fixed menu price plus the mandatory 25% gratuity.  Then Tedd is led out a fire door and told to sit down on a box by the dumpster.  The waiter gives Tedd a cold can of SpaghettiOs with a jagged lid only partially removed and plastic fork.  Tedd is then told to never come back.
    I think that would be less unpleasant that what Tedd is experiencing right now.
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    Dabat reacted to The Old Hack in Story: Monday February 13, 2017   
    This is truly brutal. While we knew or suspected most of this, we finally see Tedd let all her frustrations out about it. I am so very thankful Elliot is there with her. He is the one person Tedd trusts enough to vent at without wanting to hold back because of other reasons. (Yes, I believe she also trusts Grace that much, but I also believe that she would want to avoid letting her full fury land on Grace because she knows how much this upsets her. Grace has problems of her own, and to Tedd's great credit, she does not want to aggravate them.)
    I noticed that, too. I wonder if it is in part because she is letting so much emotion show and moving so energetically that it is stretching her clothes, making her body shape stand out more. It could also be magic, of course, the sheer power of her emotions affecting her mark and her shape. It could be either or even both.
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    Dabat got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    I don't know if Tedd has thought this through entirely. If she has i would guess that she is assuming that she is so androgynous anyway that anyone who doesn't know her well wont be able to tell the difference. She even seemed surprised that Elliot could tell she wasn't male.
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    Dabat reacted to banneret in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    No disagreement here, Scotty. I was dancing around the gatekeeping role of medical professionals. They have a lot of latitude in how they approach treatment, and many do demand a period of living as the target gender prior to surgical and, in some cases, hormonal intervention. This was more common in the past, as the DSM-V and the most recent revision of the WPATH Standards of Care no longer treat gender dysphoria as pathological, but these demands do persist in some practices. Where you are and what insurance you are on can lead to a completely different experience with the establishment from another person. Sometimes, there are a lot of hoops.
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    Dabat reacted to ijuin in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    Letting people know that the girl Tedd is the same person as the boy Tedd will only result in said people reacting to the trans-ness rather than to specifically Female Tedd.
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    Dabat reacted to ijuin in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    It's not the wearing dresses per se so much as it is being thought of and treated as the desired gender. Tedd should spend some time in public (away from school) in "enhanced-girly" mode--as long as she has boobs and curves that are clearly not fake, and does not openly tell anybody not-in-the-know that she is the same person as male Tedd, then almost nobody would suspect who she was.
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    Dabat reacted to Circe in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    I don't believe Tedd's thinking very clearly.  She said she is at school as a girl because she wants to decide whether she'd rather be stuck as male or female.  The problem is she is in a very boyish form and wearing boy's clothes - so everyone is going to treat her as though she's a boy.  
    IRL when a person is considering sex reassignment, the doctors typically have them dress and live as their desired gender for an extended period of time.  This is intended to help them get an idea what it will be like before they permanently alter their body.  Tedd has kind of turned this on its head - she's altered her body but is going to school as a boy!
    My guess is that her emotions are getting in the way of her thoughts.   She also does not have an option to go to school as a girl, unless she went as someone else.  Maybe Sarah would agree to a switch for a day or two?  I'll bet that Ashley would do it but a) Tedd doesn't know her that well yet and b ) Elliot would be weirded out by it.
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    Dabat reacted to hkmaly in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    1) Really or does she just THINKS she has little own magic?
    2) Gauntlet. Seriously.
    Obviously. But note that she already has pretty good idea how to make permanent change device.
    To repeat: loss of ambient magic is hardly problem. Magic reset, without knowing details of dangerous rarity, is.
    Tedd spent lot of time in Edward house, which is full of all sort of protections. Voltaire already complained that getting anything done is HARD. It's possible he wasn't able to attack Tedd directly. Alternatively, he NEEDS Tedd but in bad state.
    I'm not sure about the dysphoria but I definitely want to give her hug due to the lost of her dream of making magic available to everyone.
     
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    Dabat reacted to Don Edwards in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    Tedd won't be stuck in either sex - the TFG will still work, as it isn't magic. But apparently in Tedd's mind, being a boy temporarily turned into a girl isn't the same thing as being a girl, and vice versa. She recently (Saturday evening) gained the ability to actually change sex, not just have a temporary enchantment, and now she's aware of a risk that she'll lose that - and pursuing her other ambitions would significantly increase that risk. Perhaps, even, already has.
    Tedd using her mark, in and of itself, does not increase the risk. Particularly if she carefully keeps separate populations of "people who know male!Tedd" and "people who know female!Tedd" with minimal overlap. What increases the risk is increasing the number of people who have access to magic. Increasing the number of people who know about magic, probably increases the number who will stumble onto a way to access it, and so is to be avoided but isn't as big a deal as, say, handing out magic watches on a street corner.
    I'm very slightly genderfluid centered on gender-neutral. I've had mild dysphoria for as much as half an hour at a time, maybe a half-dozen times in my life. (Twice since I learned enough to recognize it for what it was.) There is no way I consider this comparable to what a trans person deals with, but let me tell you, it still sucks.
    In a magic reset, everything Tedd currently knows about magic may suddenly be wrong.
    She'll have an easier time learning the new ways than most people, but she had to actually see his own permanent-sex-change spell in action before she thought she knew how to make a permanent-change device. And she might not (probably wouldn't) have that spell after a reset.
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    Dabat got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    Kind of. For me it was an inability to express myself, and not wanting to attempt to do so until I knew more, rather than locking it away. I just ignored what i couldn't deal with and concentrated on what I could. I can't honestly speak for Tedd, or anyone else for that matter, though.
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    Dabat got a reaction from Tom Sewell in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    There's a type of freaking out that's so deep that often other people can't tell there is anything major wrong. I've seen in in cancer patients, their whole world is (or might be) so suddenly and rapidly falling apart that they can't process it. They just go about their life doing what little they can, with whatever control they have, until they can process it into words.
     
    EDIT: A word.
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    Dabat got a reaction from ijuin in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    I can't be the only one who wants to give Tedd a big hug right now and tell her it's all going to be ok. Dysphoria is literally indescribable to someone who has never had to live it. The thought of being granted a 'treatment' (don't know what else to call it) like Tedd's mark and then being told my every use is risking it's loss would be devastating to me.
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    Dabat got a reaction from weirdee in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    I could see an argument being made for Grace, but she'll love Tedd no matter what, and would tell her so. "Do whatever makes you happy" doesn't help much when even Tedd doesn't know what will make her happy.
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    Dabat got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    Kind of. For me it was an inability to express myself, and not wanting to attempt to do so until I knew more, rather than locking it away. I just ignored what i couldn't deal with and concentrated on what I could. I can't honestly speak for Tedd, or anyone else for that matter, though.
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    Dabat got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    I've been sitting here almost since the instant you posted trying to think of how to respond, but nothing sounded right.  I too am very very glad she has Elliot to support her. I've had a similar destruction of what I thought was my place in the world, and it is nothing to go through alone. As much as Mr. Verres loves his child, he would not be a person Tedd could turn to.
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    Dabat got a reaction from Tom Sewell in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    There's a type of freaking out that's so deep that often other people can't tell there is anything major wrong. I've seen in in cancer patients, their whole world is (or might be) so suddenly and rapidly falling apart that they can't process it. They just go about their life doing what little they can, with whatever control they have, until they can process it into words.
     
    EDIT: A word.
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    Dabat got a reaction from ijuin in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    I can't be the only one who wants to give Tedd a big hug right now and tell her it's all going to be ok. Dysphoria is literally indescribable to someone who has never had to live it. The thought of being granted a 'treatment' (don't know what else to call it) like Tedd's mark and then being told my every use is risking it's loss would be devastating to me.
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    Dabat got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    That was exactly my point. Grace will want Tedd to be happy, and will love her no matter what. But for all of Grace's good intentions this is something she can't relate to. Elliot can.
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    Dabat got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    That was exactly my point. Grace will want Tedd to be happy, and will love her no matter what. But for all of Grace's good intentions this is something she can't relate to. Elliot can.
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    Dabat got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    Kind of. For me it was an inability to express myself, and not wanting to attempt to do so until I knew more, rather than locking it away. I just ignored what i couldn't deal with and concentrated on what I could. I can't honestly speak for Tedd, or anyone else for that matter, though.
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    Dabat got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    I've been sitting here almost since the instant you posted trying to think of how to respond, but nothing sounded right.  I too am very very glad she has Elliot to support her. I've had a similar destruction of what I thought was my place in the world, and it is nothing to go through alone. As much as Mr. Verres loves his child, he would not be a person Tedd could turn to.
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    Dabat reacted to ijuin in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    Hmm, I don't see Grace really having a "genderfluid" mentality so much as an "agender" mentality. What I meant was that Elliot is the one person who could possibly relate to Tedd's internal struggle over what gender to be. Ellen has had a bit of gender dysphoria too, but she chose to go for fem and not turn back, so to speak, whereas Tedd and Elliot have wrestled with the question in more of a back-and-forth manner.
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    Dabat got a reaction from ijuin in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    I can't be the only one who wants to give Tedd a big hug right now and tell her it's all going to be ok. Dysphoria is literally indescribable to someone who has never had to live it. The thought of being granted a 'treatment' (don't know what else to call it) like Tedd's mark and then being told my every use is risking it's loss would be devastating to me.
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    Dabat got a reaction from Tom Sewell in Story: Friday February 10, 2017   
    There's a type of freaking out that's so deep that often other people can't tell there is anything major wrong. I've seen in in cancer patients, their whole world is (or might be) so suddenly and rapidly falling apart that they can't process it. They just go about their life doing what little they can, with whatever control they have, until they can process it into words.
     
    EDIT: A word.