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artaxerxesthegreat · 15 hours

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I could be wrong but did one of Roha’s crew members say that only men were moonbeasts? Because Ishki’s crew definitely all make me think moonbeasts— I figured her to be a spotted seal almost immediately, and iirc there may be one other woman on the crew itself

Also Ishmi’s first mate: red fox?

I think this is the panel you're thinking of:

This confused/surprised more people than I was expecting, since the episode ends with our insane ex-wife making her debut appearance (and you've got a good eye for Moonbeast animals ;3 ) but a lot of people seem to think this means Blade was wrong when they said this. Blade WAS wrong, but in a different aspect than the way I think many interpreted it.

Blade is right that the Moonbeast gene is only inherited by a subset of the population; as they say, it skipped their mother and sisters and went straight to Blade. But Blade is wrong in what they, at this point in the story, think it means to be a "boy."

In this way, Ishki's introduction at the end of that episode was meant as an optimistic portend for Blade's story, that they can recontextualise what it means to be a Moonbeast and that perhaps it's not as black and white as it seemed when Roha told Blade they were "becoming a man."

Poor Roha, he's doing his best to be a supportive adoptive dad, using the only positive role model he ever had:

Regardless of biological sex, Blade clearly doesn't feel like "a boy," but since they're a Moonbeast, and the Moon "only wants boys," Blade feels not so unlike Rose at the beginning of the story: chaffing against a predetermined, immovable fate they were assigned at birth.

And so it seemed only right to me that the episode feature two adult woman whose characters fundamentally reject that concept of assignment, albeit in different ways. In this way, Blade is surrounded by their own bright future, even if they themselves don't see that yet.

I mean, Ishki's crazy, but I think we can all agree she's one hell of a woman 🙏🥰 and her existence means Blade's journey of self-actualisation can be achieved.