Gender Curse

The Gender Curse (also known as the Ruby Curse, Curse Orbs, Sylvana's Curse or simply the Curse) is a magic curse that was created by Sylvana Huntington in her effort to eliminate the non-blood population of the Earth to avenge the death of her oldest daughter Amber. It is one of the pivotal plot points in the SapphireFoxx (SF) Universe. 
The Gender Curse in its raw form is a small red orb of magical energy or Mana that on its own is harmless and will simply float in place unless touched or moved my magic in some way. In its active state however, the curse is embedded within the body of an individual (usually visible through arcane sight to be embedded in the Head or chest) and has the effect of making them the wrong gender. Most afflicted with the curse are born with it inherently and are unaware of its existence at all yet are likely to experience some form of dysphoria or emotional discomfort as a result of the curse making them born as the wrong gender. While it is possible for a curse to be made or given to another through the use of magic this is rare and nearly all Gender Curses seen in the SF universe are inherent. A Gender Curse on its own has such a low level of Magical energy they are left unnoticed and ignored by Sorcerer kind and their existence and true nature are known only to the Sapphire Fox and his trusted allies.
Originally the Gender Curse was created by Sylvana and given to thousands of non-bloods until she was stopped by Alistair. Unfortunately, the curse orbs have such a low level of magical energy they went unnoticed by the rest of Sorcerer kind which resulted in the thousands of those afflicted in the 1400's passing the curse down through their lineage eventually spreading from thousands to millions over the course of centuries.
It is estimated that by 2012 around 0.3% of the planet's population is a carrier of the Gender Curse and while not all of them experience too intense of gender dysphoria throughout their lives all remain somewhat emotionally stressed or hold a degree of emotional discomfort. The only way to remove a gender Curse is with magic using an Amethyst Curse removal spell to remove the curse and transform the body of the afflicted to its proper state that it was always meant to be. This is the mission of the Sapphire Fox. In an effort to clean up the mess his wife made the Fox travels the world seeking out those who carry the Gender Curse and curing them. Making them to the proper gender they were meant to be and removing the curse to be sealed away until it decays into nothingness.
The Gender Curse is not always removed easily. Depending on the degree it is embedded into an individual and how much they have suppressed, ignored, or denied how they feel on the inside the curse can be so embedded into them it may take anywhere from a few moments to over a year to slowly transform them and fully remove the curse. Simply transforming an individual is not enough for the curse to fully dislodge from them and they cannot be forced out. An individual must both be transformed and internally accept and embrace the fact that their new body is the one they were always meant to have. While the Fox does occasionally use a degree of Gold Transformation magic to further alter someone's body for various reasons, he still uses Amethyst Curse Removal magic as his main method of curing them. For most people cured by the Fox this process is quick and usually only takes a couple minutes but for some who are less accepting and more in denial of their true self the process may need more time. For some this requires them to find a significant other or simply live in their new form for a while until they realize the truth that they've denied themselves. An example of a quick curse removal would be someone like Franklin/Francine who had realized after years of internal conflict that he was transgender and wanted to be a girl so when the fox showed up and cured her, the curse dislodged and was removed after only a few minutes without her needing to find a significant other or try out her new body and life for a bit. On the other end of the spectrum and example of someone who's curse removal took a while would be Jamie Cummings (Later Jamie Mccarthey) who had denied his feelings for so long the transformation process took 100 days to fully complete and then her Curse took another 607 days to be removed easily by the Fox. Jamie had denied her feeling for so long and taken so long to fully embrace them she needed not only to be fully transformed but also needed to find a significant other in the form of her future husband Scott Mccarthy to reach the point where she fully accepted her new body and thus made it possible for her curse to be removed. 
It is possible for Sorcerers to be afflicted with the Gender Curse as a result of having a Non-Blood Ancestor who was afflicted and mixed it into their lineage. This is made apparent in the case of Ash/Ashely transforming herself originally out of curiosity but finding comfort and pleasure in her transformed state that she embraced it so easily. However simply transforming herself did not make her aware of or remove her curse witch still required a targeted curse removal spell to fully cure her.
It is also revealed that to a properly trained Sorcerer there is a detectable level of residual curse energy left in anyone who has had their curse removed. It is implied that this energy is borderline undetectable unless one is specifically looking for it or the curse it originates from. In addition to the underlying sense of the energy arcane sight can usually reveal a small swirl of energy located in the cured individuals stomach area likely where the curse once resided before its removal. Essentially leaving a form of magical scar but not having any negative effect on the cured.
Not everyone in the SF universe who experiences either Dysphoria, Curiosity, or preference toward being the other gender is afflicted with a Gender Curse. Some individuals like Selina Baily, Alyssa Foster-Damon, Lara Jensen, Amanda etc. are not cursed (to our knowledge) and yet after experiencing life as the opposite gender finds such a degree of comfort in it that they choose to fully transition and live as the other gender without being a victim of the Gender Curse. There are also cases where some people in the SF universe are unwillingly transformed by magic that is not related to the Gender curse. Characters like: Jason Maverick, Marty/Mary, or Julian/Chloe are transformed by some form of magic unwillingly and are stuck that way until they either find a way to turn back or are forced to accept their new body. Thus, while the Gender Curse is the main factor behind most Transgender people in the SF universe it is not always the cause. 
== History ==
In her grief and anger over the death of her daughter, Sylvana attempted to revive Amber with Necromancy and other forbidden arts of sorceries to the point her eyes turned Crimson Red and her soul had become irreparably corrupted. In this state she was driven mad and vengeful against the non-Blood world. Knowing that an outright slaughter of non-bloods would not gain much support she instead created the Ruby Curse as well as other hex or curse elements that would instead mind control and transform all non-bloods into women who would serve her and spread the curse further. With this plan she gained a certain degree of support as this would entail that with all non-Bloods now women, they would be unable to procreate and would die off naturally or be forced to cross breed with Sorcerers and their kind would die off in a few decades. So Sylvana created the Ruby Curse to transform them and added in other magic element to enslave them and remove their free will to use them as an army to spread her curse known as the Enlightened. However, Alistair and his Sapphire Legion were able to defeat Sylvana and her Enlightened forces which resulted in both Sylvana, and Alistair being trapped in a crystalline statue form. While the Sapphire legion was able to free the enlightened of Sylvana's mind control her Ruby Curse was too powerful for them to remove or even truly detect so instead of transforming them all properly they freed them of the mind control and used Mass Memory Alter to make them and the rest of the world believe they had always been that way. While the evidence and memory of this conflict was forgotten the repercussions were deeper than the Sorcerer societies of the time thought. 
With Sylvana sealed away, Alistair slowly recovered and realized the repercussions of leaving so many non-bloods afflicted with the Gender Curse. Not only were there thousands now stuck as the wrong Gender but the curse that they carried would be passed through lineage with all their descendants carrying it and being born as the wrong gender. The Curse would continue to spread through their descendants and spread from thousands to millions. Unwilling to burden anyone else with cleaning up the mess his wife had made and feeling guilty for allowing it to happen in the first place, Alistair began to regain his strength and begin his centuries long mission to cure those who has been transformed. Thus, the Sapphire fox Began his mission to seek out all those who had been transformed by his wife and remove their gender curse to restore them to their proper bodies and true self, as well as using MMA to avoid too much confusion or repercussions of transforming them. 
Over the centuries unfortunately, the Gender Curse continued to spread, and Alistair was so bent on fixing the mess himself that despite his efforts those cursed continued to propagate and spread across the world. Over the course of centuries Alistair continued to cure those born with the Gender Curse collecting them and sealing them away in a vault on his island. Despite his power even Alistair could not destroy the curse orbs he had removed and instead had to store them away until they decayed into a fluid state and eventually fade away completely. However, at one point when Alistair began to grow weary and depressed around 1996, he attempted suicide, but his attempt was either interrupted by or caused an Earthquake that not only shattered him but breached his curse vault and caused the fluid curse to mix with spring water and flow through a fault line that led to the nearby Cinder Isle and caused the T1-G1 pandemic. A year later however a group of 3 girls effected by the pandemic found the cave and recovered Alistair's shattered body eventually reassembling it and restoring him which inspired him to resume his mission to cure all those afflicted by the Gender Curse. 
Over the next couple decades Alistair continued his mission to cure all those born with the Gender Curse usually curing a couple hundred each day, but he still estimated the mission would take until the year 2540 even with him refocused and picking and choosing his targets. He lost track of exactly how many curses he'd collected in his vault. In 2014 Alistair had fully resumed his mission but his paths crossed with a distant descendant of his youngest daughter Ivy a young girl named Isabelle Arington. Though their initial meeting was not exactly smooth after a time Isabelle became Alistair's apprentice and joined him in his mission to collect the curses and cure those afflicted significantly upping his progress towards completing his mission. After a few more years Alistair and Isabelle had recruited several others to their cause such as Ashley, Chris and Jessica Young, and Clair Dupont. However, with the return of Sylvana their efforts have recently been severely set back ... (Coming Soon)