Homegirl

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Aliases: Juanita Status: Recurring

Homegirl is Homeboy, transformed into a woman by the cursed joint in “The Cursed Joint of Bayankala”: the same person.

At the party Mary Jane takes them to, Homegirl freezes when the host, Chris, kisses her hand on introduction, and blurts out the first name that comes to her: “Uh… yeah, Juanita.” Chris answers, “Juanita. What a beautiful name,” and she’s Juanita to him for the rest of the night. Earlier that day, sitting beside Chino in a King Taco booth, she’s the one Destiny gets in the face of after clocking her ex sitting across from a woman he can’t explain; when Destiny jabs a finger into her chest, Homegirl snaps it back, then single-handedly fights off Destiny and her three friends (an elbow to the temple, knees to the ribs, a guillotine chokehold) while Chino, unbothered, eats his way through their table’s food. She reverts to Homeboy in front of a bathroom mirror at Chris’s house, mid-hookup, before the story ends.

The Adventures: Volume 01

Homegirl is the shape of the back half of “The Cursed Joint of Bayankala.” Uncle Rob’s cursed joint turns Homeboy into her on Chino’s couch, and from there the story follows her through the transformation’s fallout: a visit to Uncle Rob, who confirms he expected something to happen but not what and has no idea how long it lasts; the King Taco brawl with Destiny; a crash course from Mary Jane in “being a chick” and a makeover to pass as Homeboy’s “super gorgeous cousin”; and the party at Chris’s, where she reverts mid-hookup and has to climb out a bathroom window rather than explain herself. She doesn’t appear in any of Volume 01’s other twelve stories. By the next story, Chris and Chino refer to her only in the past tense, as the cousin who “ditched” him. For Homeboy’s baseline personality and history outside this transformation, see Homeboy.

The Adventures: Volume 02

• Tequila Homegirl: Turns back into Homegirl after tequila shots with Mary Jane. Goes on a date with Chris as “Juanita,” flips between forms via tequila all night, and ends hungover on Mary Jane’s couch vowing never to drink tequila again.

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