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#and tbh i read the like. disappointment at imperator not calling him papa as less “this is the title i want” and more like...
ratgirlcopia · 7 months
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[bones creaking with every step i take] i think a lot of copia's self-image issues would start resolving themselves pretty quick with a transition arc. but that's just me.
#copiaposting#i see a lot of copia's gender stuff being a bit more social dysphoria than physical dysphoria.#which may sound. interesting. given my plastic surgery takes. but i think that's like. rooted in social dysphoria too.#to me a key thing about copia's Everything in the chapters is that underlying vibe of...not getting perceived correctly.#like... not getting titled correctly by imperator/not being taken seriously by nihil.#and then like. hypercorrecting toward masculinity in a way that both doesn't work and makes him seem kind of miserable.#and tbh i read the like. disappointment at imperator not calling him papa as less “this is the title i want” and more like...#“what the hell i did all that and suppressed so much of myself and i don't even get the title”#which is SOOOOO ripe for some ghovie plot point that's like. alright copia! you did it and they still never titled you correctly!#at which point copia “snapping” and just doing whatever the hell it is he actually wants to do would be the natural Thing.#[waves hand] hence the transition/drag show arc that makes perfect sense in my head. you see.#where was i going with this. oh yeah.#i feel like copia going “oh. i'm a woman” would make a lot of the uhhh self-image issues start falling off.#no longer striving for the impossible (parental approval) and instead just going “oh THIS is what i needed/wanted all along.”#i feel like that would result in less of the...[gestures to the vague yet constant sense of misery and inadequacy wafting off him]#bad at being a papa worse at being a man great at being a middle aged gamer woman. is my personal interpretation.
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