//( tw sexual abuse ) GOOD MORNING. On today’s episode of ’ Ash can’t, won’t, and doesn’t want to stop and process his trauma’, we look into how Ash weaponizes his beauty in order to give him control of the awful sexual abusive situations he frequently finds himself in. While it is he fortunately turns the situation around before they head extremely south and Ash himself controls the circumstances, it does deter from the fact Ash has numbed himself enough to sexual abuse to be able to say ’ hey I can blatantly walk into this abusive situations and get out because I’ve handled it so many times. ’
And thus scenes like him seducing Marvin and the candy bar scene, while a power move, are still horrifying because Ash has experienced enough how to get in and out of these situation. And these are the best case scenarios where he can safely get out. Think about his rape in prison – while he got what he was aiming for, it was at the cost of his safety…