Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26174543-20181006151501/@comment-26174543-20181006203646

And You Know

whether or not behemo's story is actually true, I think it's safe to say that it's the one that he told to levia, the Super Genius That Specialized In Psychology

and in that story behemo relayed a world that wasn't exactly kind to boys that broke gender conventions. such as putting on women's clothing, wearing makeup, or acting "feminine."

if you interpret this as being based in truth about real behemo's backstory then that was the kind of society influences that were at play when the second period was programmed. and if you think that behemo made it up then behemo specifically would have designed the lie to be believable in levia's world.

either way we have to acknowledge that there was not an insigificant amount of prejudice involved with exploring your gender in the environment where "michael" grew up combine that with michaela living as a woman for 500 years after being a human for one of them, specifically after she and the people around her cut ties with human civilization, and many of the social conventions that came along with them, and I think we have even more subtext in support of the trans michaela theory