gods every time i think about sanitization in octo expansion i just get unsettled, it is an intensely horrifying prospect the way it is described even aside from the obvious fascism of kamabo co
to have your body filled with something so overwhelming it changes your form irrevocably and to have your mind overwhelmed to accept the change, identity lost in whatever wants to destroy it and replace you... it's horrifying as a trans person.
i've had a ffxiv-playing partner draw analogy to something that happens in one of the expansions, something something filled with light something something, and... that's just a common sort of horror, huh?
even beyond fictive experiences it's no wonder trans people find these stories so intensely appealing in their horror, mapping the visible visceral destruction of who you are onto the conversion therapy the world already wants to subject us to.

