Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6986530-20171111052140/@comment-181.66.27.38-20171124220549

66.139.155.126 wrote: Mothy also put in that the gender has to match the body or else magic and things like that don't work, up to and including the soul rejecting the body, IIRC. So Michaela being able to use magic indicates something is right in that combination. It's why Gallerian wasn't a valid host for one of Ma's souls, and it's why Irina can't do much magic-wise when leeching off of her male subordinate, and it's why Ma used Lilith and even talks about souls, gender and bodies there.

So by Mothy's own rules, there's something there, unless Michaela violates these rules.

This seem to be a different case, Michaella seems to be a reincarnartion, while the other cases was a soul possesing a body.

In fiction, it isn't really uncommon that people reincarnate with a different sex (the gender tend to be defined by the body in these cases)