But the characters of david and mell as a take on the bikini beach universe as far as I'm concerned were a comment on the grandmother can never lose, and its all for the greater good theme, remember the character is not infallible made bad judgements in respect of her own daughter, and when younger used her gifts to transform others because it suited her at the time, especially Joseph grandmother, who she never bothered to try to find, anothe story set in the early days of bikini beach has a man being killed because of her acions and his daughter spending her life suffering because of the consequences, grandmother's and anyas magic in general warps the transformed memories to accept and then forget the transformation sometimes just because grandmother doesn't like the behaviour of the former male, in David's case the transformation saves his life but is still unwanted, he is basically a transsexual, male trapped in a female body, but non of those around him seem to accept thus, and push being more feminine, wear dresses, makeup, like boys, something that if a natural event of a transgender person would be considered torture, he also calls grandmother out for hypocriticaly telling him not to use magic in anger or to punish, when she did so many times when younger, and also flirted with the dark side herself, she is not all powerful and all knowing, and not always right, so fir mell to be heald to a greater standard of behaviour is wrong, even anya has made bad decisions and been fooled, so mell/david not trusting them is only fair, even her adopted mother seems to not accept the boy underneath and not only expect, but push mell to be excited about clorhes and wedding dresses, and of course it does look like grandmother and anya are plotting something (all for davids own good of course) behind mells back, so maybe if the story is ever continued, a darker path may be ok