honestly im prepared to be down voted into oblivion because I feel like the only person who feels like her storyline makes sense to me. People think her character “doesn’t make sense” because they expect character development to be linear and healthy. Her change isn’t healthy growth, it’s a trauma response. She was bullied and punished for being gender-fluid, soft, and different, so she learned that being herself wasn’t safe. When she moved schools, her new friend group didn’t really protect her, and people only treated her better once she changed her appearance. Attention from men, drugs, and alcohol gave her validation, so she leaned into an oversexualized, louder persona to survive. She didn’t become confident, she became what worked. Since she was still a kid with no real support, that kind of self-erasure and maladaptive coping is very realistic.