[ She tucks her knees together, uncertain. This is never anything she's explained. The people of the palace had known what she was, no need to inquire. Out of all the hosts perhaps Kylo Ren has an inkling but even then... Her own memory of the process was dim, inebriated, all she had been able to express to him was pain, what that pain meant, what that pain had made her. ]
My womanhood was removed, and I was stitched shut. To retain my purity.
[ More than just being kept away from the world, there was a true restraint, as unquestionable as Angel's collar. Barbaric. Dehumanizing. Bodies denied. ]
cw: explicit fgm
My womanhood was removed, and I was stitched shut. To retain my purity.
[ More than just being kept away from the world, there was a true restraint, as unquestionable as Angel's collar. Barbaric. Dehumanizing. Bodies denied. ]
The... stitches are gone.
[ But the scars remain. ]