Rain
Comic 1289 - Resident
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For the record, I didn't cover this in the recap because it's a rather small side point of the chapter overall. But if you need a quick refresher, Jess originally started staying here after her breakup with Aiken, in exchange for helping Rain meet Vincent to start transition. Rain has since begun her transition. And Jessica has very recently made peace with Aiken. She's fulfilled what she set out to do and gotten the closure she wanted. It's just time to move onto the next chapter of her life. All in all, with everything else going on, this is actually really good news, and making their apartment less crowded could ultimately prove very beneficial. ^_^
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I feel like this might be my bad, if accidentally so. Whether it is or not, I'm sorry this happened. I'll try to make sure it doesn't happen again, though. :)
As such, this would be an announcement that she's now officially looking for a new apartment in town.
I’M STILL NOT SURE WHETHER I SHOULD SHIP JESSICA AND AIKAN OR JESSICA AND HEATHER
I mean, Jessica herself said so. But shippers gonna ship. It's fine.
Also, I love the mamma feels Jessica is giving off :3
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Does anyone know who Gerald Broom is?
He's one of Chanel's teachers. We don't see him too often, but when we do, it's usually alongside Fara and Mrs. Parker.
http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/373/
Incidentally, people forgetting him might be my fault. I seem to recall coming to the realization a few years back that no matter how often he appears, I seem to always forget to address him by name. It might say in the blurbs (and definitely says on the character page), but if you strictly look at the comic, I could see it being completely missed. Unless I'm forgetting something, prom might be the first time he's addressed by name in canon.
http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/1132
My bad. ^^;
That is correct. My angle - as I've heard from many, many testimonies - is that some trans women are able to train their voice well enough to permanently change it. To the point where if they wanted to use their "original" voice, that actually becomes difficult to do. So whereas Rain's dialogue is italicized to note her active and constant effort to keep her voice in her desired range, Jessica (and also Ana) are not, because they have trained their voices well enough that it just comes naturally, without thinking.
That's my reasoning, anyway. As someone who has not been able to permanently change my voice, I wanted to be able to showcase both trans women who share my struggle and those who don't. We're all valid. ^_^
Would Ana have even needed to do that? Keeping in mind I've never read any of the bonus chapters from the books, and based on what she told Rain when she came out to her, my headcannon for Ana up to now has been that most of her physical development during puberty would probably have been normal for a girl... all while she was probably still effectively being forced to present as a boy at school...
Indeed! That's the idea. Italics are used a couple times for other characters imitating someone else's voice. In a very relevant instance, there's one page where Emily's text is italicized (and bolded) when quoting her mom. I always kinda envisioned that as her doing a mockingly shrill, "squawking" voice.
http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/492/
Ruby also uses italicized text when talking to Aiken or Allison or anyone not in the know.
http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/271/
http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/784/
To oversimplify, italics is just "actively changing your voice". :)