In one way, I kind of admire the acknowledgement that rape can be a behaviour, and not necessarily... an identity? So people can fall into mental traps of not labelling what they do as rape (she was asking for it/she was drunk/she said yes before) and a lot of people who come across as decent human beings in other ways are capable of those thought processes, and people totally definitely should be checking their assumptions/actions/behaviours, because that shit is evil. But that's more what I want to be reading rather than what is actually on the page.

I'm kind of hoping the GRRRRRAPEMONSTER is the effect of 'the parasite' rather than the mantle, because I would prefer it to be a malevolent agent hitting Harry's weak spots rather than the distillation of what it means to be Winter's agent. Or, hell, gross bits of Lloyd Slate's psyche that got stuck to the mantle, and that Harry can excorcise. *clings to made up fanon*

Erm. Sorry. This is a lot of My Thoughts on Rape. Go forth, read! *shoos*