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Ruined Man

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It wasn't much. It was sore, for a while. But I got over it. Nobody needed to know. And it's not like I was sleeping with women anyways. This was just... a precaution.

Against accidents.

Mistakes.

Abominations.

Monsters.

Like me.

This was to make sure there would be no more of me. To be sure my bloodline ended with me. My father's bloodline, sure, that would go on. I had more than a dozen half-siblings. Enough of them survived to breed. But my bloodline... My mother's children, we were all doomed from the start.

Unwanted.

Unholy.

Unable to escape the way Mother had.

She wasn't supposed to be born. Grandmother had thought Grandfather too old to be fertile. Mother was allowed to be born because nobody realized what she was. But Mother wasn't supposed to breed. She should have been cut out as soon as she was old enough.

She was their "lesson" on why such things were to be enforced. And my siblings and I, we were their example.

My sister had her uterus taken from her on the island. Our society is a primitive one, so the surgery was equally primitive. But she's strong. She dealt with it. My brother is old enough that he should have had his surgery by now, but he's shown no interest in sex, so they've let him be, for now.

I had my surgery when I was a little older than he is now. They let me postpone it because I'm gay, but eventually they demanded it.

Because of what I am. Because of who my mother was.

They won't let me breed.



I just want a child to care for.
Zyyr stamp by CassidyPeterson

Prompt: Write a story based on song lyrics

It's me who's been eternally damned, trapped inside this cage, a ruined man
Yoko Kanno & Scott Matthew - Beauty Is Within Us
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

My anthro echidna character Zyyr, whose society deemed him an abomination for his mixed heritage (1/4 raccoon) and forbade him from ever breeding. He's actually very bitter about it and feels like "less of a man" because the decision was made for him, but refuses to admit it to anyone but himself. However, he's very open about wanting children some day, specifically daughters.

The group I originally wrote this for has since been deleted.
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