Reading conversations about Hazbin Hotel's Angel elsewhere on the Internet makes me very glad for all of you here.
When I wrote Kauri, I worried a little after his freedom that he would be misunderstood, not connect with readers as much, because he dealt with abuse and rape by becoming hypersexual and self-destructive, taking control back over his body in the only way he knew how to do at the time.
With Angel, who does the same thing, I see people complaining that it's unrealistic or "sexualizing trauma" and I just...
I appreciate you guys here so much. You got it, with Kauri, right from the start, that sex can exist alongside or within a tragedy and sex can just as much be one of the ways someone rebuilds their foundation after it crumbles. That no one has to be the perfect pure and noble victim, some people fuck up because it can feel like if you hurt yourself first, other people can't hurt you that way any longer. It's a shield, a form of protection, just one with spikes on the inside that cut you even as they keep everyone else from getting the chance.
Seriously, as a writer I would like to thank my Kauri readers for getting what he needed to do and who he was so well so fast and following with me as he figured it all out.
Just having the thinky thoughts today.
