[ SECRET POST #2133 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2133 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[kamino_neko]

Hmm. I can see what you mean, but I'm not sure prostitution is a great analogy for the Relinquishment Centres.

I'm not sure, of course, that there is a good real world analogy for them. Which is awesome - yay, running with science fictional ideas. (For those not reading the books, Relinquishment Centres are now-illegal places where poor bots could give up their bodies for a while, so that bots who could afford to pay for them could have the experience of riding around in a different alt-mode for a while. At least two spoilery aspects of the issue these panels come from involve the RCs, both of which play against the prostitution analogy, IMO.)

[(Anonymous)]

Look at what Drift says: He feels the only worth he has left is in his body. They're not giving up their bodies, they're selling them because they don't believe there is anything else for them.

It's not a perfect analogy, no, because they're robots and not human beings, but that's pretty close. I'd bet dollars to energon that's what the owners of the places say to anyone who wants to get out, too: "what else can you do? You're worthless except for your frame."

[kamino_neko]

Yes, but again, look at how the RCs are actually used in the plot.

Hijacking the donors' identities to create a cover for assassins, and as a front for a brainwashing operation.

The prostitution analogy breaks down hard when you hit that point, and even before that, the only thing that makes it closer to prostitution than, say, selling blood, or doing hard labour for half minimum wage in a sweatshop is the recreational use of your body - which your mind isn't even in, which weakens the analogy again.