Hi there! I really enjoy your view on Sasha and i have two things to share. First, do you think that Sasha, due to being extremely neglected, avoided and ignored as a child, added up to being exploited at a young age, not going outside a lot and also seeing his mother in that scenario, do you think that he developed extreme hypersexuality at a young age and nowadays he's trying to minimize it? I'm 100% sure his dad didnt teach him a single thing about more intimate stuff, and being neglected like that as a kid often makes them develop hypersexuality. This has been my headcanon for a long while (kind of a thing to confort me since i went through smt similar) and I never had anyone to talk about it but, now that im seeing your stuff, i really think youd understand.
I imagine Sasha ending up hurting himself a lot as a kid/teen due to touching himself in ways he didnt understand because his dad never taught him about any of it nor about... anything else other than making shoes... and all this neglect could very easily wake something in his head that made him desperately crave any sort of pleasure/attention, and the easiest one was hurting himself in sexual ways, i'd imagine he'd feel super gross later, but wouldnt be able to stop doing it, so i wanted to hear your thoughts on it!
The second thing i have to share questions about your works, what made your Sasha develop pedophilic tendencies? Was it the same reasons as why i headcanon him as hypersexual? Has it only awaken with Raz or has he had these intrusive thoughts with other kids? Do your Raz and your Sasha genuinely love eachother? Do you consider them to be codependent? Does Raz find confort in being in a relationship with older men? Is it also due to his experiences? Is your Sasha evil to Raz, as in he manipulates, hurts, grooms and abuses him, or does he treat him like a respecful and equal partner in a normal relationship? Does Sasha view Raz as a toy or a genuine lover? What about Raz? Does he view himself as a toy or as Sasha's genuine lover? Does Raz get more positive or negative feelings off of their relationship?
If the answer gets too long you can first answer the hypersexual thing then the questions, if you'd like! I really like your stuff, it's conforting, I know youre thinking about stopping but your art really helps people like me who went through similar stuff and find confort in art like these. Have a good day, i hope you can answer🫶
This is such a nice ask! Thanks a lot for sending me this, I will try to answer in the best of my possibilities because I have been quite braindead as for lately so, feel free to ask me again if something came out weird or incomplete.
I personally think that Sasha would have been institutionalized in some kind of out-of-home care institution after running away a couple of times, I won't dig too much in what I think about it because I could go on leeeeenghts on this piece of headcanon but to put it simple those institutions were very violent sexually wise, so I'd imagine him getting even more scared towards his father's memories, and I think that he indeed would resort to self-injuring in his alone time to say something because of part of my headcanon has something to do with punishment through cigarette burns from his father and other stuff relating to his fucked up perception of sexuality where he becomes obsessed with using it as psychological torture towards himself for feeling guilty and detached from a healthy relationship with sex.
As for pedophile Sasha, to be honest I have no idea, it started as just me looking thorough the dialogues they have in the first game and going "this dude is literally grooming this kid" and went from there but I've been trying to work on why he's like this, there was a post I made a long time ago on that, even though I didn't specify what I actually though on that because I was self-censoring.
But in general I think Sasha is really "fond" of the kid [or something bordering on fond, but screwed up] but he's genuinely too much of a control freak to experience in a normal romantic way, he feels like Raz is something he can guide and own, probably something satisfactory from his powerless situation throughout his life, Raz seems to complete the areas of life Sasha couldn't have, it's probably infuriating, maybe he wants to regain what he lost, a childhood he wasn't allowed to have even if Raz isn't in the best conditions anyway, his live is unhealthy but in a place where it's not baffling given Sasha's worst situation.
I will try to answer every question as they go:
Was it the same reasons as why i headcanon him as hypersexual? Not really, I think it's more about control.
Has it only awaken with Raz or has he had these intrusive thoughts with other kids? I think only Raz.
Do your Raz and your Sasha genuinely love eachother? Do you consider them to be codependent? I don't think they love eachother in a convencional way, maybe Raz had a little crush at the start but I think it's pretty obvious that he would end being scared to death about him and having complex feelings about it.
Does Raz find confort in being in a relationship with older men? Is it also due to his experiences? I don't really know, I think he compulsively tries to enter relationships [see Lili and that line of Milla calling his a flirt] possibly due to what he has seen during the world around being a circus kid, traveling with other companies and meeting weird individuals that could have been a bad influence to his development.
Is your Sasha evil to Raz, as in he manipulates, hurts, grooms and abuses him, or does he treat him like a respecful and equal partner in a normal relationship? I think he is abusive in the sense that in the first game he cares very little about his well-being, I know there are dialogues where he asks if he's doing well but they end up falling flat imo, he IS very manipulative, I don't know if he would hurt him too throughly but I do think he's kind of cruel in some ways.
Does Sasha view Raz as a toy or a genuine lover? What about Raz? Does he view himself as a toy or as Sasha's genuine lover? I think maybe at the start Raz would think of this as genuine love out of naivety but I'm sure Sasha treats him more as something symbolic rather than actual romantic feelings.
Does Raz get more positive or negative feelings off of their relationship? Negative feelings, in my opinion. He seems to be constantly pushed to do as Sasha says, as you can read in this post. Raz being such a free spirit and Sasha turning more obsessive would end up in him being genuinely scared and cornered.
Hopefully this is comprehensible enough! Feel free to DM me or continue sending asks [just try not to spam them, I try to keep this place mostly image-based than textposting.]
