#is the experience of being hunted down/toyed with/beaten into submission/ultimately absorbed and fundamentally unmade by Cell | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

2c75ff · 10 months ago

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((My sole contribution to any of the themes invoked over the course of this particular day is the fact that Seventeen is very weird now, for many understandable reasons, about the prospect of being outclassed to the point of helplessness; and that his figurative wires, when it comes to the thought of submission, have found themselves subsequently crossed and fried in some interesting and occasionally rather Cell-shaped ways.))

#tbd.#I'm not going anywhere with this; I simply feel slightly bad for not accomplishing anything here this weekend #in my defense though: it's because I have a deadline for a zine contribution looming over me; so like. you know. priorities #anyway: I'm not saying he WANTS Cell or that there's attraction at play in the usual sense; let's not be reductive about it #what I AM saying though is that he has complicated feelings about the thought of being overpowered/claimed/possessed/treasured monstrously #by something SO wildly inhuman; SO wildly beyond his ability to fight or resist; that his inevitable submission to it can't be reproached #(after all: if the choice is effectively TAKEN from him then there's a certain freedom in that. a certain absolution)#and as it turns out: the one thing that he has in his arsenal to help him make some kind of sense out of this brain soup #is the experience of being hunted down/toyed with/beaten into submission/ultimately absorbed and fundamentally unmade by Cell #so: is it REALLY shocking that his periodic amorphous/difficult-to-grapple-with fascination re: letting himself be Possessed and Overcome #sometimes takes a form like Cell's in his private thoughts?#the answer is 'not really; no'

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