a) Louis is turning into a girl anyway - it's a side effect of the Switcheroo power set.
b) Louis has the Switcheroo powers - they can only be transferred upon death.
c) Louis is determined to find Weaver and see justice done, since she killed his sister.
d) Especially given (a), Horus' demand isn't exactly unachievable.

Given the information Horus had on Weaver, it wouldn't surprise me if he was acutely aware of the childhood incident Louis recalled in flashback - which is probably one of the factors behind his reluctance to accept his changes. He could really use some counselling, and Dia's probably the best placed member of the team, since being an AI she doesn't have any human preconceptions.

Her denying what the power is doing is ultimately foolish. I assume she is nearly all female now or will be soon even down to her reproductive system so female cut clothing makes sense if only for comfort and freedome of movement alone.

BUT need it be girly-girl fashions? Gowns? Switcheroo is a heroine, a super and needs practical, stretchy clothing that allows movement or break away clothing for her animal transformations and friends standing by with spare clothes for when she changes back.

But need they be *girly* * frilly* *froo froo outfits*? Hell no!

She should be her own version of what she is, not the government's, not that FUC*-up head of the supers group, not Totem no matter how nice she sometimes is -- her slapping Lou, BAAD move -- and definitely not what Horus wants. Women, some VERY HOT looking women wear jeans and men's style shirts -- in women's cuts, women cut dress suits, skorts, athletic wear and rarely ever wear poodle skirts, crinolines, heels and bustiers. Lou need not become a June Cleaver or a Madonna Wannabe to be female. And where was our friendly computer avitar?

Guide her, help her but don't force her. The flash back about the dress-up and his taking the blame to shield the sister is very informative. Is this when their ho-hum treatment of him turned to near hate, IE assuming every bad thing was his fault, everything good was hers and belittling anything great he did or any help he gave her. The parental units, in particular the sorry excuse both kids had for a mom, need a healthy dose of reality mixed with whup ass. I assume this is also why she is so anti female clothing.

As to Horus, I wonder. Just a weird power broker type who wants to be the power behind the throne but unseen? A odd super playing both sides to weaken them in his favor? Or is he a mentor: a Henry Higgins as in My Fair Lady, a Mr Miyagi as in The Karate Kid, a really secretive Yoda?

So in the end WHY is Horus involved? A weird good guy or gal? An amoral neutral? A dangerous third party waiting for the two main sides to weaken each other? A mentor for Switcheroo for some reason, guilt perhaps despite the secretive, world weary, mercenary dealer of information mask he/she is wearing?

IE is he, in his snarky way -- GRIN -- pushing our budding -- snicker -- heroine into her rightful place as a young woman? Does he want to help her , just he dare not expose himself?

Given how badly he has been treated by his parents, mom being the worst in many ways, and given how close he and his sister were he/she has every right to be bitter, snarky and whatever. Plus she's/he's a teenager again and they ARE snarky, moody etc.

John in Wauwatosa

P.S. From the *infor dump* AND his sister's DEATH as Switcheroo I see that going it alone as such a high profile super is suicide. If you could stand back and not act the hero, something the power does not like as far as I can tell, she might hide out for a time but her looks/powers are too well known, Plus apparantly in this *world* if you are not on one side them both sides assume you are working for the other so both sides become your eneimy. She just needs to negotiate better terms, HER terms.