Metal_Gear_Raxis posted... Fuck, you haven't seen the least of it.
Volume 2 spoilers: Yu is used as a very unsubtle allegory for transgender tribulations (Yu isn't trans, she was born and identifies as a woman but her mother deliberately afflicted her with a gender-bending curse so she could have a male heir), Rae reveals one of her friends in her past life was a transman who killed himself, so she, in a rare moment of doing something unrelated to Claire, goes through hell and back to help Yu, and succeeds in curing her curse.
Volume 4 spoilers: Then Rae and Claire meet a transwoman and deliberately afflict her with the same curse Yu was under so she could live as a woman.
Also there's the fact that nearly everymajor female character turns out to be some flavor of queer aside from the obvious case of Rae, Claire, and Manaria. Yu and Misha? Lesbians. Pepi and Loretta? Lesbians. The empress of Nur? Bi. Her daughter? Lesbian. One of the church cardinals? Lesbian.
Inori (the author) herself being a queer woman had a lot to do with it.
im fully aware of the light novels and how hard they go
still need to finish reading the 4th and get the 5th and final