Karyn (Alt)
Gooose on 2/25/2024 1:19:46 AM
Episode last modified by Gooose on 2/25/2024 1:19:46 AM
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I wonder if pointing out that she could wish herself straight would make Karyn feel more guilty or if she would rationalize that away. Did she consider that? Obviously she wouldn't for the reasons of making a transformation story... but still.
So, you're right that some of it is contrived for the transformation story, but her rationalization here is that she's trying, at least at first, to avoid altering people's minds as much as possible. She could also have just wished Sarah to be a nicer person who was interested in her, and wished Jon's unrequited feelings for her away, but she didn't. Morally speaking she's on a bit of a slippery slope regardless, but she's trying to rationalize and justify what she's done.
Yeah, but it's a much easier moral case to make for altering herself mentally than someone else physically. Altering herself is her making a choice about herself, so I can't really see a moral objection to it, especially something like just altering her sexuality, where her "self" would remain intact. I understand she might not *want* to be straight, but like given she hasn't even told Jon she isn't straight... she doesn't seem comfortable being lesbian either. The actual text of the story to me implies she just didn't think of it. Especially the bit about how she's tried to convince herself to go for Jon anyway. It's sort of an interesting blind spot, and if at some point she realizes that wishing herself straight was an option, it might make for some interesting character moments for her, since it's already too late to that. Especially if she tells Jon about the stone again, and he points it out. Hell she wouldn't even have to be straight, just wish for a Jon-specific exception, so she's not interested in men, except Jon. That would be tricky to phrase in a way that guarantees what she wants though.
Oh, there were definitely other options to what she did, and she's certainly being selfish with the course she's gone with. Down the line she may indeed have to reckon with her choice here, and subsequent choices she's going to make. The stone is essentially absolute power, and we all know what that does.
Yeah. I like the fact that she's clearly been thinking about the idea of Sarah's body and Jon's personality being her ideal so long and so much that when she had the stone she didn't even think about and discard other possibilities, she just made that one literally happen.