Rain
Comic 572 - Pieces Come Together
Author Notes:
Panel 3 - p.340
Panel 4 - p.192/194
Panel 5 - p.301
Panel 6 - p.225
Panel 7 - p.390
Panel 8 - p.11
On their own, none of these points would probably out Rain, especially if you weren't looking for or expecting it. Even altogether, nothing is actually confirmed. But as Emily says, if you know enough about the subject, it would be plausible for her to suspect it at this point. Thankfully, she also knows enough about the subject to not bring it up herself.
On the last panel of the second page, we see both girls lower their phones and the background starts blending. They are not physically next to each other now; rather, I started getting experimental. I didn't want this and the following several pages to consist entirely of two people with their phones glued to their heads. Besides being tedious to draw, I figure it'd get tedious to look at. With that in mind, I saw a perfect opportunity for some symbolism. So what the hey? I don't like having to explain this kinda stuff, but sometimes it's easier for me to just say it straight out.
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But, that doesn't mean that she can't feel the way she feels-- nor should she necessarily refrain from sharing that with Rain--
Emily doesn't know all of that though. Look at it from her perspective. All she knows is that every last one of Rain's friends were aware of this and have been for quite some. But SHE is the one Rain is close enough to to call sister. And yet, Emily's the last to know by a wide margin. From Emily's perspective, she's thinking, "Why could she tell everyone else so quickly and not me? Does she not really trust me? Have I given her some reason not to trust me?" It's not some privileged statement that she "deserved to know", but a fear that she was specifically left in the dark longer because she wasn't really a good enough friend. This may be irrational, but emotions and fears are usually pretty irrational.
Also, Emily gave clear signals that she's versed and open-minded about trans people, when the two of them hanged up with Ky (when she explained her sexuality, that includes trans people, and when she knew Ky's label)
Anyway, I can understand why Rain didn't come out knowing that. Coming out is a terrifying and uneasy experience (I mean, the act of coming out, NOT the outcome of it)
On a separate point, I imagine that Emily must have felt somewhat similar to how the readers felt back in chapter 20 when she found out Ky is genderfluid and she revealed that she's pansexual.
*dies*
This.
So much.
It stung me a little when one of my best friends, at work, got married and only told me after, and by phone. It doesn't mean I wasn't happy to hear it, or happy for them. Just that I'd felt left out
This is the page that panel is referencing. Specifically panel 3 on that page. :)
http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/325/