There’s a peculiar kind of ballsiness in using a deadname at EU. A birth name, a legal name, a name the bearer wore and bled for and killed either firmly and unflinchingly or nervously, slowly, strangling it bit by bit over the course of years- it’s not True, and cannot be used as such, but there’s power and presence in that sort of name, should someone be willing to take the carcass of their unself and wear it as protection.
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