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When Neil first grabbed his binder in Wymacks house, I thought it was like a chest binder. I made so much sense in my head! He is super protective over the bag, has a fake name, has a fake identity. I thought he was just trans and didn’t want anybody to find out
trans Neil could actually make so much sense if you think about it because imagine they’re on the run, and Neil says to Mary ‘mom what if I started dressing like a boy’ and Mary, hellbent on disguising them, thinks that a fantastic idea, and immediately agrees. And then Neil is like, ‘maybe I could change my name to more boy names’ and Mary agrees even more. It’ll be harder to find them. Meanwhile it settles something in Neil, makes him feel about as at home as he could be in a body on the run.