from: ChrisWood@VoidShipping.fen
to: ford.sierra@heavyarms.fen
subj: It’s a boy!
Just finished up with Mackie. Unsurprisingly, he’s handling it worse than I did back in the day. But given he doesn’t have the ‘wave performing some spring cleaning in his head, I pretty much expected that. He’s uncomfortable, second-guessing his movements, and the reactions the body takes to everything is driving him absolutely batty. But, based off his overall behaviour, and some of the answers I got out of him while he was distracted with engineering issues, he’s coping about as well as I’d hoped. And his self-image is still completely male.
He IS having a bit of an identity crisis though, probably based off the fact the face in the mirror belongs to someone else, as far as he’s concerned. A.C. let slip that the idea of having him operate under a cover identity had been raised. If you do go with that plan, please be careful. The poor boy’s already paranoid about who he is right now.
Also, warn the girls to be very careful about how far they push their teasing. Mackie is very close to the point where he stops using his imagination for perving, and starts using it for revenge. And there are few things more terrifying than an engineer on the warpath. Seriously, if Minnie May pushes it that far, I’m letting someone else deliver to Frigga for a while.
to: ford.sierra@heavyarms.fen
subj: It’s a boy!
Just finished up with Mackie. Unsurprisingly, he’s handling it worse than I did back in the day. But given he doesn’t have the ‘wave performing some spring cleaning in his head, I pretty much expected that. He’s uncomfortable, second-guessing his movements, and the reactions the body takes to everything is driving him absolutely batty. But, based off his overall behaviour, and some of the answers I got out of him while he was distracted with engineering issues, he’s coping about as well as I’d hoped. And his self-image is still completely male.
He IS having a bit of an identity crisis though, probably based off the fact the face in the mirror belongs to someone else, as far as he’s concerned. A.C. let slip that the idea of having him operate under a cover identity had been raised. If you do go with that plan, please be careful. The poor boy’s already paranoid about who he is right now.
Also, warn the girls to be very careful about how far they push their teasing. Mackie is very close to the point where he stops using his imagination for perving, and starts using it for revenge. And there are few things more terrifying than an engineer on the warpath. Seriously, if Minnie May pushes it that far, I’m letting someone else deliver to Frigga for a while.