#objectification cw

it's within her contract with valentino that summer is not allowed to fight. this stems from the fact that summer is entirely there for aesthetic purposes. she is an object for people to desire, for valentino to flaunt and rent out when it suits him. fighting is a risk to her appearance, and valentino expects nothing less than perfection when it comes to his brand. therefore when she's in danger she has very little abilities she can actually use. if she does, her body will freeze up, leaving her in an even more vulnerable position. she has figured out she's able to extend her claws from her hands, an indirect aggressive tactic, and is able to swipe at any potential attackers face, once again through indirect actions and not aiming intentionally, giving her enough time for them to let go so she can escape whatever situation she finds herself in. since signing the contract she has tried to sweetly ask and plead with valentino to remove the clause from their agreement, each time being dismissed as if there were any real danger valentino's side of the contract would come into play ( i.e. angelic weapons ). unfortunately this doesn't apply to potential clients summer deals with.

With what he was capable of tolerating and doing, he was so much more, and the world thought it’s okay to make him an object bound to be simply nothing when there is no longer use of him. It was always agonizing having to go through these things, but in the end, Zero accepts everything that comes with being a subject. Because he is helping them, right? They are looking for answers and with his entire being, he is taking them to those things they have been searching for after years and years. This makes him useful and acknowledged, so he is willing to get involved with anything that can lead to the answers.

From time to time there’ll be the “What does your human form look like?” kinds of questions, or “can I see your human form?”, that obviously aren’t one to one on what we experience as transgender people getting asked things by cisgender people it does feel awfully familiar. 

It feels familiar in the sense of someone trying to get information that someone else isn’t really privy to. “What does your human form look like” can easily be the same as “But what is your real name?” with some even getting upset that they won’t show them the listener’s human form for xyz reason, in the same way that some get upset with me when I don’t tell them my “real” (given/birth/dead) name.

“Can I see your human form” can be something that’s implying something sexual, depending on the tone and intent of the speaker of course, to use the listener’s body as a part of some Forbidden Fruit or Taboo rather than just another person to have sex with. Some people may hit on a worgen, liking the idea of going after something that’s Human Adjacent in their eyes, but maybe not really human or not really what they say they are. The listener is sexy to them, but not in the same way that a human man or woman would be. To the speaker, they’d be sexy in the way that the listener isn’t really a person. They exist only in sexual fantasy and nowhere else, a worgen doesn’t buy groceries they’re here to please the listener. This again reminds me of how many cisgender, and heterosexual, people treat queer people as inherently sexual being rather than people with day-to-day lives. 

There’s also a lot of plotlines that sometimes in the way that we talk about worgen ic, myself included, that indicate that someone who is a worgen is inherently broken. There’s been times where I see the idea of completely removing the worgen curse from someone and “curing” them, and that being a worgen makes you lesser. A defective human as it were. This also can tie into themes of ableism, but that’s another post. You need to be “fixed” and I can “fix” you, this is something that I hear not only as a trans person, but as someone who is bisexual. The reality of the matter is that I can’t be “fixed” on either front and if I’m being perfectly honest, there’s nothing wrong with me. This is an opinion that can easily be shared by a worgen, in fact all my worgen feel the same way. Even as much as it is a curse, thus far it has done nothing but enrich their lives. 

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