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Nikki and Sandy are finally on their way to their first classes. Classes chosen, schedules in hand, ready to be real college (girl) students.

They don’t get very far.

Lauren and Evie find them first, and they’re in a recruiting kind of mood. Recruiting for what? Depends on which one you ask!

Can’t wait to hear what you think! 💕

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Jenny S

Some nice walk and talk! Nice to see the cheerleaders back, this Evie date should be a lot of fun, and probably kind of critical in seeing how strongly Nikki is into women since everything happened. I mean, she says she is, but if she finds a kiss from Evie not as nice as her kiss with Zach, that's going to be quite the sudden learning experience :P Great work as always, Emory! <3

Tim

I'm really looking forward to a couple of new subplots unfolding. And the bonus pinup is fantastic. The girls look great. And if I'm not mistaken, Nikki and Sandy somehow found their way to a residential street in LA. Homage to your return to your sunny paradise?

Crewchick

I absolutely LOVE the pin-up at the end!!! The whole slightly retro Varga Girl look is amazing! I could just stare at it for hours. Also liked the energy of the episode. But just as it is getting good, wham, it ends!!!! 😲 Now we have to wait until next month to hear Sandy's crazy plan.

Gemma

Yippee! At last the ‘girls begin College life.’ A whole new range of adventures and possibilities, just wow, so excited, can’t wait to see what happens. I do agree with what Evie suggested, spotting Nikki’s, underlying competitive nature and being jealous and a bit taken back by Lauren’s request for Sandy and not her to join the cheerleaders. Evie really does have Nikki’s number. How quick she was identifying Nikki’s oh so cute pout. I do love the way the role reversal Nikki is encountering in this episode. How she is now having to deal with and experience no longer the hunter, the one taking the lead, she is now the one being the one that is pursued. Love the adjustments she is experiencing as she is flooded with compliments about her cute feminine backside, ‘how hot she is’ and all other elements of a game plan she would have previously engaged in herself to set up a date with a girl. All the images are amazing. Image 18 in which Evie grabs her very assertively, seeming to state her claim on ‘her girl.’ The following image Nikki seems to be on the back foot, not used to this new, more submissive role she is taking on in this couple dynamic. Then in image 20, there is something very subtly being communicated by her body language. Her passive stance and pose, holding one hand in the other behind her back, it looks so much like an unconscious very receptive, but shy like feminine pose (chest sticking slightly), accepting, of the more assertive advances of Evie’s more ‘handsie’ flirting. Nice to hear more of Sandy’s back story to better understand how passionate is is about going to College to fulfil not only her dreams but also those of her parents. Seeing how for her, going to College is so connected with her parents, an opportunity and way to express her love to them in their absence. The last scene of Sandy conspiring with Lauren has me intrigued, setting up a whole range of possibilities. Great introduction of the girls to College life. Can’t wait for the next episode.

Gemma

Couldn’t agree more Jenny. Nikki certainly sounded very defensive in her emphatic response to Evie around her sexual preferences. So strident in conveying and emphasising that ‘she likes girls, I’ve always liked girls!’ As you suggested, it will be interesting to assess her reactions and how she feels both in relation to feelings of attraction to Evie and also what feelings bubble up inside her compared to those which arose after she kissed Zach.

Kris Greg

Of course you're leaving us hanging! You are good with cliffhangers. I enjoyed both of Nikki's conversations, but I need more. You hooked me a while back.

Pet Jeffery

Great episode! I really enjoyed it. I wondered when Lauren and Evie would pounce. I'm not sure about the practicality of the cheerleaders' tops. My feeling is that, if someone performed vigorous moves in them, there would be a wardrobe malfunction (as I believe it's known). Perhaps they have different tops for actual cheerleading. I'm English and I've never seen a cheerleader or cheerleading but I've seen plenty of pictures. And all of those that I can recall involved tops likely to keep the breasts securely contained. Is that statue really Sisyphus? When I saw it, I wondered why that woman was carrying a giant egg. It made me think of 'egg' in the trans sense of the word. Evie dating Nikki seemed inevitable, sooner or later. Interesting that Nikki is being cast in the role of the girl. That looks like plenty of fun in store. I wonder what Sandy is going to suggest (about Nikki) to Lauren.

Alex Hait

Wonderful. Just absolutely wonderful. You spin such a wonderful tale and the reader is just hoping for happiness for Nicki and Sandy.

Crewchick

Feeling your pain Kris!

Maggie Heels

Page 7 is heavy... really, really heavy... and Nikki... omg... waiting is exhausting you know? Sometimes I wonder if you ever change at all... maybe you'll be the same as now at the very end of this comic... idk if this should be interpreted as happy ending for you or not...

Maggie Heels

Nikki, your mental catching up to your physicality is at rate slower than tectonic plate movement...

Emory Ahlberg

Aw, but Nikki HAS changed, Maggie! - She's doing her best not to be homophobic / transphobic. - She's eating her vegetables again! - She's no longer actively seeking her dad's impossible approval. - She isn't pushing friends away anymore. - She's acknowledges that "Old Nick" could be a real asshole sometimes, and she regrets a lot of those behaviors. - She has started to acknowledge the trauma she experienced both from her dad AND from Clinic 12. - Maybe most importantly: She's trying to be a better person. All this in less than a year of "Half Sisters" time!

Maggie Heels

OMG lol.... that answer was quick as hell.... and the amount of data provided... ❣️❣️❣️

Maggie Heels

To clarify... I had in mind only one thing... adapting her to her future as a woman ;) not everything else possible... ;)

Crewchick

TBH, Nikki's almost assertive I've always liked girls" is starting to feel a little hollow and over stated. Like Lady Macbeth almost, "the Lady does protest too much." With all the hormones she has been shot up with, confusion should almost be expected. But even if she has a great kiss with Evie, I don't know if that will counter or undue the anxiety from her kiss with Zach. Even if she is desperately hoping it might. If anything it could open up a new possibility for her that she might be bi!?! I think in the Nick brain still in her head, a bi girl is o.k., but a bi guy is not. And unfortunately for Nikki, we are seeing her brain is still identifying as being a guy. So Nikki has some problems still ahead of her. In all honesty I think full SRS on the island, or even now, would be like a mercy killing for Nick/Nikki. We are seeing things like the women's shower situation and running to the Football team locker room shower, that Nikki feels like she is playing the Sesame Street game (one of these things is not like the others). The truth is she does not fit in anywhere that has a binary view of the world. If she were revealed in the women's showers she would be labeled a predator male. If she is caught in the team showers she would be labeled a freak and quickly victimized. And neither outcome would suit Hutchinson who is trying to make Nikki into Venus to compliment the Adonis he is turning Zach into chemically. "Venus with a penis" standing by Zach's side will not get Zach into the Texas Governor's mansion. And right now Nikki is too overwhelmed and afraid to really examine herself physically and her sexuality mentally. She still mentally identifies as male, even as her body looks completely female with one exception. She also has acquired some very feminine traits from her Second Dawn stay, such as her make-up skills and how she appears to walk, stand and posture in some feminine ways. Even her voice is now easier to keep in a feminine register than her old male register. SRS would certainly be against her will or if a choice, one made under great duress. I think this would save her from having to choose and in doing so potentially put in question Nick's entire manhood. "If Nick was ever really a 'real man', how could he ever CHOOSE to become a woman"? Was HE "gay" HIS whole life? As much as Nick may have been an asshole in pain, I don't think Nikki is ready to give up his male self identification and what he may have thought it meant to be a man. Also, if she chooses to sever the young man Nick from her identity to embrace a feminine Nikki, does she also reject some part of the little boy Nicky too, who grew up into Nick? And who is Nikki if she cuts out a great part of her past? That is why I feel like a forced or leveraged SRS might actually help Nikki move along and embrace who she is now. She does not have to focus on the choice and what it means in a very existential way. She can be stoic about her situation. "I was a man, but now I am not and there is no way to go back, so I must make the most of who and what I am now. " There is nothing left physically for her to cling to from her male identity. Still will not be easy, but may remove some obstacles to embracing a fully female identity while also giving her incentive to not linger in a middle limbo. And if Nikki did choose SRS (possibly with the financial help of Mrs. Ferris) it would be a major middle finger to Hutchinson and allow her to reclaim autonomy over her body. Hutchinson designed her for Zach! Traditional looking girl on the outside, boy on the inside, at least in Hutchinson's warped mind. To appeal to his gay son, while maintaining a straight cover for Hutchinson's political aspirations for Zach. There is almost no way for Nikki to go back physically to Nick at this point. But fully feminizing Nikki could be an act of self determination and autonomy while also being a major act of defiance to Hutchinson. She is taking the chisel from Hutchinson and finishing the Venus statue in the image of her own choosing. But I think for Nikki to make that choice there would need to be some new major trauma in her life that puts her into a "fuck it", and "just do it" in the moment mind set. Almost like Jill's orchi to save Nikki. In that vain, Nikki has already sacrificed a lot for her Dad. But what would she be willing to do for her Mom, Sandy or even Lauren? Or here is a twist. Mondo hates Nick/Nikki (and with good reason at least from the past perspective). But what if Hutchinson was threatening Mondo with "the treatment" to try and get him out of Zach's life, and Nikki threw herself on the operating table in his place to help preserve that relationship for Zach? That would be a major evolution, almost like Jill's, from self centered and egotistical Nick to almost saintly Nikki. And at this point would joining the Vag Club really be so bad? At the very least there would not be another pink cage in her future.

Jade Diaz

My guess is she’s going to tell Lauren that Nikki should be treated like a girl for all intents and purposes

Jade Diaz

Evie and Nikki’s date is sure to be the second note in Nikki’s bisexual disaster symphony

Pet Jeffery

Probably, but it might be more specific than that. Perhaps to allow Nikki to use the showers in the cheerleaders' changing room for her morning ablutions (I don't imagine that any cheerleaders will use them before cheer practice, later in the day). Possibly, Sandy will suggest that it would be good for Nikki to join the cheer squad, though I'm not sure how Nikki would be persuaded to do that.

Annette

An interesting first day for the dynamic duo. And it's all before 9AM 😉 A perfect setup for what undoubtedly will be an eventful first(ish) year for both. LOL at #16 😂 And what an absolutely beautiful pinup 🥰 Great job, Emory!

Alex Cioranic-Alex From the Tri-Cities

Poor Evie...she really has no clue, does she, dearest muse Emory??? Unlike Lauren and Sandy. I hope you don't mind if I actually "borrowed" her rose vine and thorns for a Triquetra With Circle matching tattoos design for my own Xuniverse characters Summer Chastity Crowe©™ and Shunfen Xu©™. I also HAD Evie and her mother do the tattoos as she did such good work on Evie, I'm sure you'll agree. Also, I wanted to ask you, would Hutchinson threaten Evie and her mom to keep them quiet??? He was only mentioned verbally a few times and it already made me want smash my Google Pixel.

Gemma

It will be interesting to see how things play out with Nikki. I too hope she has full SRS and eventually, after some denial, resistance, embraces her life as a girl. How and why this would occur I’m not sure. I’m also a bit of a romantic, I also hope for Zach to discover that he is a ‘latent’ Hetrosexual man. That his adaption of gay sexual orientation was an unconscious, deeply seeded act of defiance against his dad. That was embracing that life choice arose from sexual confusion informed by his underlying rebellious desire to reclaim some sense of autonomy, as well as exercise some sense of self determination and control over his life. I don’t mean to be oppositional with Crewchick take on Zach. My vision and hopes are different to assessment of Zach not being locked into being gay. It is reflective of the more very wishful type scenarios that I hope for and entertain that leads to the eventual romantic coupling of Nikki and Zach.

Jenny S

Eh, I don't think "gay conversion therapy actually works" is the play, both because ick and because it would make Hutchinson right. But I really don't think Nikki/Zach is endgame anyway.

Gemma

I know I may be clutching at straws here. I was actually suggesting a questioning of the origins and depth of Zach’s actual identity as a gay man. Putting forth the possibility that Zach’s identity and sexual preferences as a ‘gay man’ were not set in stone and may be more fluid. I was putting forth the possibility that Zach’s ‘gayness’ possibly being moreover reflective of, grounded in, his rebellious response to his dad and his efforts to reclaim and assert some sense of control over his life. I suppose putting into play that maybe Zach is more bi than gay. I was not suggesting Zach having to or needing to undergo gay conversion therapy. I suppose I’m searching and looking for different possibilities that lead to the romantic outcome of Zach and Nikki getting together. For example, reviewing Mondo’s reactions to Zach spending time with Nikki. This seems to go beyond past negative experiences of Nick. Mondo, in the brief scenes we see him in, seems insecure and jealous of Nick/Nikki, even in her current feminine form. If Zach’s sexuality is 100% set in stone gay (not fluid), why does he appear to be so on threatened on edge and fearful of Zach spending time with Nikki.

Gemma

Random comment: I just love how pretty and feminine Nikki’s hands look in these images. Her hands gestures and hands really stand out to me. This feature, her pretty, small and delicate looking hands are even more obvious in episode 83, particularly as we see her peeking through her fingers looking at a naked Zach. As another feature of her feminisation, her hands now, in no way, look like they could belong to a man.

Crewchick

I don't know that you can read Mondo's insecurity as conformation that Zach is fluid. If Zach has been open and honest with Mondo, then he likely knows not only that Nikki is Nick, but that Hutchinson did that to Nick/Nikki, the reason why (open up the QB position and create a designer girlfriend/wife/beard for Zach), and that Nikki still has all Nick's plumbing in place. He also knows how close a friendship Zach and Nick had before football. And that Nikki is on major designer female hormones, so Nikki's own orientation may be a spinning compass needle right now. Pair that with the fact Hutchinson is a sadistic, sociopathic, egomaniac billionaire use to always getting his way, and capable of ANYTHING, to get it, should give Mondo reason to worry. Because if Nikki is not an absolute train wreck as a girl, and she and Zach rekindle their friendship, then Mondo "disappearing" (Clinic 12 reservation for one, tell Davis he has a new toy arriving) would be the next logical step to remove distractions for Zach which might get in the way of his developing a relationship that is more than friends with Nikki. Also to erase any evidence of Zach's gay past that might be out there. TBH, if I was Mondo, I would have already dropped out and taken a circuitous route to Alaska or Norway to get a job on a fishing boat and hope Hutchinson just forgets about me. Or maybe, sending Armando to Clinic 12 is Hutchinson's back-up plan if Nikki does not work out and there really is a love connection between Zach and Mondo? Being married to a Latina certainly would not hurt Zach's run for governor given Texas' evolving demographics. If Zach has not been fully open kimono with Mondo about his Dad and about Nikki, and Mondo is just imature, insecure and jelous as fuck, then that relationship was destine to fail before it began. Because neither was ready for a real relationship of any kind. Though I have to admit, telling a love interst on the first date that your dad is essentually "Lex Luthor" is the quickest way to not get a second date. And anyone who seems turned on by that prospect should probably be avoided at all cost.

Emory Ahlberg

oh my god - Nikki would be mortified this many people are discussing her love life, 🤣 Thank you Jenny, Gemma, and Diana for these great comments!!! You all caught how hard she leans on “I’ve always liked girls.” But listen to the next line: “That’s, like, the one thing about me that hasn’t changed.” Her body, her name, her locker room, even her stupid escape route behind the weight room are gone. So really that line is the last piece of Nick she can point at and say “mine,” so of course she’s gripping it with both hands. And that doesn’t make it a lie so much as it means anything that wobbles it feels like the floor dropping out. Including, say, a kiss she was screaming about not being able to stop thinking about earlier this season! Diana I also think you're totally right about Nick-brain rulebook. Bi girl, fine. Bi guy, five-alarm fire, might as well just be gay. Gemma, on Armando: If you go back to the night of the first date, he tells Zach he had to watch him pine after Palmer for years. Not Nikki. Big, cocky, locker-room-bully Palmer. So Mando isn’t worried Zach will turn straight, he's worried because the person Zach’s had a thing for since they were kids is back on his field, and Zach’s dad built a whole future around that crush. After all, “change the body, keep the crush” is Leonard’s theory! It’s the reason there’s a Nikki at all. Diana, Mando definitely knows Hutchinson is behind all this. Zach has been open about that! Your comments made me laugh so hard because you're so right lol Thank you all for caring this much about these messed-up dorks! 💕

Emory Ahlberg

LOL, yes on that she’s dragging her heels - or she would be, if she’d wear any. I think whatever “woman” ends up meaning for Nikki, she’s going to build it out of pieces she picked, not ones Hutchinson picked for her. That’s slower than tectonic plates! But tectonic plates make mountains. 😊

Emory Ahlberg

Thank you, Tim! 💕Let’s say the girls took a wrong turn on the way to Geology 101 and kept driving till they hit the Pacific. 🤣

Emory Ahlberg

Gemma, my favorite part of Nikki losing the hunter role is watching her try to grab it back. “I’ll pick you up Friday.” “I pick you up.” “I do the picking up. I’ve always done the picking up.” And when that fails, her last move is offering to show up on Snowfall lol I really love the little peaks into Sandy's backstory. She had a whole (minor) criminal history befreo Mrs. Ferris!

Emory Ahlberg

Kris, cliffhangers are the only power I have over you all, and I’m not giving it up! 😈 Also, Nikki lost every argument she had this episode, which has to be a personal record haha

Emory Ahlberg

Thank you, Alex! 💕 Sandy’s got a lecture hall full of rocks waiting for her! Yay! And new Nikki’s got a Friday “date-hangout!” That’s not too bad for a first day of college...

Emory Ahlberg

lol yeah and she's naive enough to think she’s conducting!

Alex Hait

It is absolutely amazing how you put yourself in the minds of your characters. And how different they are. They all have different personalities. It is absolutely amazing how you do.

Emory Ahlberg

Oh wow! A Varga comparison made my day, Diana! And I think you'll like Sandy's plan very much 😊

Emory Ahlberg

Pet, you’re right about the tops. Real cheer uniforms have way more fabric. Maybe St. Chris spent so much on that statue that the uniform budget got whatever was left lol And it’s supposed to be Sisyphus, but I like your version better. Somebody hauling a giant egg uphill for eternity, hmmm 🏳️‍⚧️ For the record, Nikki’s official position on joining the squad is “not in a billion years" - which is a long time but not "never" 😉

Emory Ahlberg

Thanks, Annette! #16 made me LOL as I was rendering. Nikki's face! 🤣

Emory Ahlberg

Evie’s got half the picture, and the half she’s missing is the scary half. Borrow away on the rose vine!

Emory Ahlberg

Gemma, my favorite hand shot is that forearm clasp with Zach in Episode 84, her little flannel cuff next to his giant arm. But Nikki would like the record to show those same dainty hands did ten reps with the bar after!!!

Thomas Tolliver

I can't leave an image comment, but I have a feeling Evie would like my female alter ego too, if her eyes weren't so glued on Nikki.

Annette

I know, right? 😂🤣😂

Gemma

Yep, certainly enjoyable seeing Nikki finding, feeling herself being put into the girl role in the relationship. This was even more enjoyable when this occurred through a girl, Evie, taking on the traditional more masculine role.

Gemma

Just looked at image 26 in episode 84. As usual you are spot on. Seeing Nikki’s now dainty feminine hands and arms are really apparent (even in flannel pyjamas) when you compare them to Zach large masculine hands and muscular arms.

Crewchick

Are you saying Nikki's going to eventually wind up with "mountains"??? ⛰⛰ 😉 🤣 🤣 🤣

Crewchick

I am noticing a similarity in Nikki's and Sandy's tranformation. Both had protective hard shells on before their transformations. Nikki becasue of her father and his pushing Nick to be the best athlete, and his drinking. Nick kind of wrapped Nicky up in bubble wrap and sprayed seveeral layers of hard shell over him. For Scott the death of his parents and the abuse of his uncle pushed him away from his middle class suburban life and dream, and into a life of petty crime on the streets of Boston to survive. While it looks and feels like Sandy has completely erased Scott to embrace her new life as Sandy Ferris, we are seeing glimpses of it still surfacing to the top. Sandy helps Nikki pick a lock to help her find a new freedom. And we are slowly hearing more and more about Scottie's parents and their dreams for his future, as well as Scottie's dreams and hope'd for his future. And now as Sandy she is finally getting to live out those dreams and goals of college and dinosaurs, and a future that does not involve breaking into houses. It is so wholesome and sweet, and American dreamish, which is not what one expects from a petty Boston hood. Or what the streight world percieves to be the goals and asperations of the trans community. We have discussed Nikki extensively already, but there is a definate similarity in the how both are, as a result of their changes, reconnecting with younger versons of themsleves and fullfilling earlier dreams before other factors disrupted their lives and sent them off course. It will be intersting to see if they themselves make this discovery about themsleves and each other and find it yet another level of connection for them.