Upon reading up on this, the strangest thing about the 'treatment' is that the potion turns people into the opposite gender in her mind. So there are women sounding male and men sounding female. Why should this be important?
Here's why:
If Soleil thinks her reacting too strongly to cute girls is a hindrance on the battle field (and maybe trying to get to know them outside of it), then you could easily decondition this severe response by step-by-step confrontation with cute girls, e.g. having her look at a painting of a girl, having her know there's a cute girl outside, having a cute girl sit somewhere in the room while Soleil is reading a book, dining together, having her carry around or touch a strand of hair, talking to a girl, touching her - while Soleil is doing something that helps her calm down, ultimately empowering her to approach cute girls while staying composed.
I don't think any of the above would work optimally with men looking like women - maybe it wouldn't even work at all. All the additional vibes you would normally pick up (voice and what it does to you, smell) would be missing. Why you would take away the real stimulus she reacts too strongly to is beyond me.
Oh, and for Soleil, girls should be an unconditioned stimulus (read: it's in her nature to react to girls and she reacts to them with a chance of romantic feelings, this is her unconditioned reaction) and if she ended up liking the male MC because he appeared as a female to her (sans the non-visual input), then the formerly neutral stimulus of a male, which prompted no reaction, became a conditioned stimulus (because it occured together with a female appearence, which is part of her unconditioned stimulus) and because of that also allows for romantic feelings (her conditioned reaction to that male). This is a learned reaction.
The question is whether or not she asked to be taught all that. She wasn't really desensitized to girls, rather she was conditioned to like men. Still pretty kimoi if you ask me, if it's true she dismissed Foleo as a romantic interest upon learning he is male.
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Definitely one of my stranger posts here. At least it was a good exercise in psychology.
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