Together or Separate - Pages 7-9 (Patreon)

I wanted to make sure getting Kai's backstory it wasn't going to get segmented, so I took the time to finish all 3 pages for it. Thank you for your patience.

(read the pages above before continuing below)

For anyone who is wondering where this came from, there was actually some very subtle foreshadowing since Kai's character was introduced.

Back in Heart on His Sleeve, behind Kai you can see the family portrait with a child with pigtails just behind him.

Then in Sleeping on a Secret, there's an ad for the "Real You" procedure that Kai undergoes.

all this to say that Kai's status as an openly trans character is important to me and I wanted to do it right. And at the same time I wanted Woodport to be a place where trans people could be exactly as entirely themselves as they'd like to be. For some people that'll be the procedure that Kai went through (so theoretically any character you meet in my universe could be if you don't already know their backstory) and for others it won't. (Canonically Eli's Step-Mom Terra has only undergone top surgery.) Hopefully this story resonates and helps flesh out these characters and why they have the relationship they do, even as they are imperfect people in their choices just like everyone else.

Thank you to the people who gave this story a look while in-progress so I could be sure to hit the right notes.

Now back into the broader story, Eli's got a spill of his own to clean up, we'll have to see what Gavin's up to next, that looked pretty purposeful.