Bit of behind the scenes here. Jude - choker and all - is a based on a character of mine from a now long since scrapped story. I might have come up with them as far back as my high school days. They weren't an enby then, and pain wasn't originally part of the transformation equation (the change was more "Ranma-esque" and largely an outlet for myself, of course).

But the idea of the choker once belonging to an ancient hedonistic king in an attempt to keep him in line? That is word for word how I planned it back then. I decided to play with how stupid of a plan that is, though. My wisdom and experience today tells me this almost certainly wouldn't have had any positive impact on the selfish king unless they wanted this to some extent. Themis did not. So it was basically torture for no reason for him. As a kid, I didn't know better. (I just knew I kinda wanted it.) As an adult, I decided to present it as the advisor's ignorance.

So in summation, this is now a brutal curse, that in a misguided attempt to better a long past king, ended in two high profile deaths, is tormenting a new kid thousands of years later - less because of the effects on their sex and more because it stole away their identity and may someday kill them.

TL;DR - I took a very old, very vanilla gender bender concept, and tried to give it a new and potentially horrifying new twist. I hope y'all think it's as interesting as I do.

Anyway, we'll uh... dial things back a touch next week. But don't worry: there's plenty more existential nightmares to come! XD

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