Yep -- it's possible he's just taking some kind of women's vitamins that he THINKS are hormones. (I don't know if they'd do anything, although vitamin overdose is a possibility, it's unlikely.)
I do wonder though if Chris is aware that sex reassignment surgery doesn't actually involve cutting OFF one's penis, but actually converting it into a vagina. Think he'd freak out when he learns his "unclit" is actually the tip of his junk?
Y'know, I bet you're correct in that he's just taking women's vitamins instead of men's - they come in separate containers that are clearly marked, why else would they be this way unless a man taking women's pills would suddenly over time become more of an actual woman?
Obviously that doesn't actually happen but this is OPL we're talking about here - he still thinks he's not ever gotten a boyfriend-free girl in part because of fucking Mary Lee Walsh ripping the sign up.
As for sex reassignment, though, I'm certain Chris doesn't want to go through that just yet - no, he may hate his pickle, but by Godbear one of the few broken dreams he probably thinks can still happen is him fathering his predestined child; Crystal Weston Chandler, and for that he still needs his hated duck. Also, he's a massive coward to anything he
perceives as pain and in all likelihood would prefer to just keep trying to pass off his broken equipment as fake with that weird-ass strap-on harness arrangement that fools literally nobody.
We will never understand the blarms, and we will never understand the homophobia. It is like trying to see the back of your head. Seriously, the best scenario I can come up with is that because Chris has no theory of mind and does not understand gender, or sexuality, or intimacy, or other human beings, he had absolutely no way to sort out his confusion the way you or I would, and it finally surfaced in the twisted form that it did.
Actually, I think we
can at least rationalize those things.
First, the blue arms issue. One of the many problems OPL has is that he's really bad at remembering exact details and shapes - but above all else he's big on color use as defining things. He used to be
very adamant about how special his heterochromia is to the point of exaggerating it profusely in the comics, to the point it is one of the few things that can be said is
ever consistent in that self-glorifying fantasy setting. With Sonic, he's easy to define as a blue spiky ball with
tan limbs - a color choice that the oblivious Chris never understood only happened due to the technological limitations of the early video game era and blue arms would have been impossible to show as seperate from the body on the SEGA Genesis hardware in idle poses. Making the arms blue for Sonic Boom was tantamount to WH40K heresy of the highest offense to Chris because without the tan arms,
it wasn't his
Sonic that was being paraded around, further galvanized by parts of the online fanbase also not liking the color change but for far simpler and less offended reasons. That's why it was the 'blue armed bandit' - the impostor blue armed Sonic had
stolen the place of the 'real' Sonic. And OPL was willing to go to inconceivable extremes (by his standards) to save his idol.
The homophobia is probably far easier, as it's been brought up before in this thread. Long story short: it's Bob and Barb's fault for not getting Chris the help he desperately needed in those critical childhood developmental years, as autism is sometimes known for causing issues with gender identity thanks to how it's such a big thing that is defined by society as much as the individual almost. For somebody so socially introverted and isolated like OPL, who even when he
did socialize was mostly with girls (he had
zero male friends to this day), the homophobia thing probably was a result of the gender crisis issue as while Chris was already leaning toward the "tomgirl" schtick by the time the internet learned of his existence (Clyde Cash did prophecize it fairly early on), he was still in truth straight and was not attracted to men. So, really, Chris isn't gay - he ironically turned into somebody claiming to be gay in order to align his sexual orientation with his confused concepts of his gender.
) to give up now?
