Sometimes I forget that a lot of people don't know that there's been years of meta discussions about June on Twitter Tumblr and Discords & that the idea came directly from after the epilogues dropped. In the Candy epilogues John ends up being an isolated bum who thinks everything around him is fake in a way that many trans women related to feeling like before they realized they were trans, Roxy speaks to John ABOUT gender and at the time and he clearly hasn't been doing a lot of self reflection for those years. Before the name June being said by Vriska was pointed out people were calling her Joan. It's been relatively unclear what exactly would be the tipping point to bring John to break out of that and transition but the (I think) obvious conclusion to this point in her life is to make a big change in order to reclaim a sense of identity and place in the world that she was left without, the idiosyncrasies of the character have always been a part of the discussion regarding her.

Everyone's been talking about how funny and interesting June is going to be and you weren't there... But now we're here so maybe the fun can be spread across the world.