🔗 What was their first experience sexual assault? How did it shape their later actions?
❌️ What was their worst sexual experience?
⭕️ What was their best sexual experience?
for Peyton 🥰
- sara / @justplainwhump
oooooooohhh. oh peyton, my sometimes-horrible son
🔗 in peyton's social circles, having a Romantic or two wasn't uncommon, but they would have generally been kept to adult-only or near-adult-only settings. i'm sure at some point during peyton's childhood at least one person brought their Romantic as a plus-one to a friend's kid's birthday party, but it would have been considered a social faux pas. so peyton wouldn't have officially met any Romantics till his teens, but he would have been aware of them generally before then. it was a naughty and thrilling topic to talk about among his friend group as they got to the ages where they began to be interested in sex.
along those lines, his parents arranged a sixteenth birthday present for him with a local WRU branch that catered to such "rites of passage" for their ultra-wealthy clientele. (it makes good business sense: if you introduce your future customers to your product young, they're more likely to remain lifelong customers). anyway, peyton grew up being taught that, like humanity, consent was conditional and, like everything else in life, based on how much capital one owns. it later influences his treatment of valerian; after their father losing the family fortune, valerian becomes something less than they were, less "real". and the less real someone is, the less people like peyton (the real people) need to care about what they think or feel.
❌ when peyton was first kidnapped by WRU, there was a specific set of instructions in place for his first few hours in the facility he was taken to. he doesn't remember it anymore; it was repressed by WRU's menory drugs, aided by his own trauma, but a recording was made and given to his owner. it was the first step in reducing Peyton Montgomery, proud CFO of one of the country's wealthiest privately-owned companies, to something less than real.
⭕ peyton (pre-wru) would have said that he's had so many amazing experiences that he couldn't possibly pick one, but there was this one time with two beautiful people he'd just met that day and hasn't seen again on a golden summer's beach in italy....
post-wru, he hasn't had one he'd classify as good yet :) except in the polycule au with @angst-after-dark, there was probably a day with wick and dami where they did not get out of bed at all, and that was pretty great 🥰
