I'm not sure I saw any evidence that Marina was involved in turning Andrew into Elena. Let's assume she was an active participant in wanting to change Andrew into Elena. That would require the scenes where she's shocked or upset by Andrew's transformation to be an act.
That's possible... but that would completely contradict some of her other actions.
There's no reason for her to freak out over Andrew ignoring the safeword if she's "in" on wanting to keep Andrew feminized. You compare that with Nikos and Sofia that are quite clearly happy to have Andrew stay as Elena (for reasons that are still a bit unclear).
But, let me play devil's advocate and argue that the above panel is her freaking out about the safeword not working is because even though she wants to help feminize Andrew, the fact that he's ignored the safeword means something else is mentally wrong (at this point, no one knows about the memory loss nor the method acting problem, outside of Andrew). If we assume she's complicit in wanting to feminize Andrew, she can still be concerned that it's going "too well".
Well, that contradicts her actions at the pool, where she's upset that Elena is sleeping with Nikos. You can't feminize your husband into your Aunt, and then be surprised that she's having sex? And as a reach, let's argue for a second that this confrontation was more acting on Marina's part.
That's an inner thought bubble, and so we clearly see that Marina is actually upset over Elena sleeping with Nikos.
So whatever your stance on Marina, I don't see the argument that Marina's been in on this plot to feminize Andrew. In fact, we had a whole chapter that was dedicated to flat out spelling out to the reader that apparently there was no conspiracy to keep Andrew feminized, and that (since the surgery) it's been Andrew's plan all along and what he didn't expect was losing his memories.
Now I'll take it at face value that Andrew is correct. I sincerely believe that chapter was trying to "course correct", and was spelling out what the reader should know
by that point. However, that explanation doesn't (and I don't think was meant to) explain all the weirdness of how Andrew started down that feminization path in the first place. Like getting the more extreme feminization surgery is kind of played off as a series of coincident accidents, but I'm assuming that's not a satisfying answer to most of us and we're assuming there's been someone setting up Andrew.
Is basically telling us directly, and it's a bit of a splitting hairs situation, that Andrew
staying as Elena is all his own doing, but getting onto that path, by feeling threatened and having this whole mob conspiracy,
is someone's doing
. The unclear part that we're all speculating on is "was the feminization the end goal the whole time, or is it a (happy?) side effect of the actual goals?" Because it seems pretty unlikely that someone would go through all this trouble just to feminize Andrew, who is just a nobody. Hence all the speculation of "needing to free up Marina to marry someone else", "the family thinks Andrew isn't worthy of Marina", and other things.
