Happy to help! Btw you've just made my day because YES I am not the only one with that headcanon about Adrian! And I personally think Adrian 'taking' Lee from Connor is technically karma kicking him for Adrian 'taking' Lee? The whole one can't exist without the other thing happening? GOD TIME TRAVEL IS CONFUSING. Also that Rachael losing her baby was related to Adrian doing that too. I think they could technically both be true.
Oh, the irony of the fact that the Adrian's punishment for taking Lee is........ Adrian taking Lee. Stable time loops and time travel are confusing as hell and really fun.
And yes! Trans!Adrian was actually my first thought on him as well as my initial - if crappy - explanation, and while it's probably not correct it would be awesome if it were. I know Paul's made songs on trans characters before, so why not?
And yeah, I read the thing about Rachel loosing her baby as payment for Adrian's bad karma in the Q&A, so that probably applies too.
And yeah, I don't see why both theories couldn't be simultaneously true. I know of at least one unrelated work of fiction where a major character dies prior to the events of the story and reincarnates as two separate people at the same time, so I don't see why something similar couldn't happen here. Hey, if Adrian's soul could travel back in time and reincarnate as someone older than himself, anything's possible.
And with that, the only thing I don't understand is: What the hell is up with the narrator from the Steampunk Opera, who the hell is Lloyd Allen, and how are they able to interfere with reality, so to speak? Atompunk was narrated by Mascot, so that one has an explanation, but I still don't quite understand the other two.










