Possible analysis on the Harley/Crocker family tradition?

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Saturday, August 30th, 2025, 2:00 PM1 day ago

A few years ago I saw this post. I can't recall who made it, as I saw it a long time ago, but it was an analysis on how the family tradition of taxidermy-ing your dead loved ones happened to exclusively the male members of the family, with the exception of Dream Jade, who got revived in the future. All the older women in the family were cremated.


I think the post I saw was theorizing about how the tradition possibly started by the Condense, and how it could be a reflection on her views on men?

Like I said, I saw this post years ago on Tumblr. If anyone knows who made it, I would love to read it. If not, then anyone commenting their own analysis is good too! I think you guys in this forum are very intelligent and offer very interesting insight, so I would love to read any possible speculation on the "Family Tradition."

— matpat

matthew
Saturday, August 30th, 2025, 2:12 PM1 day ago

Adding my own speculation in the comments, it could be a gendered inversion of the phrase "trophy wife?" Taxidermy is also referred to trophies. So when Colonel Sassacre was taxidermied, maybe it reflected on the Condense's view of only seeing him as a trophy husband, or object? She does have a previous instance of treating a man as an object: the Psiioniic.


I can see an innocent young Jake Harley or John Crocker not seeing how insidious the origins of this tradition is, and just thinking that thats what you do to the people you love. So they continued the Condense's actions.

— matpat

matthew
Topic: Possible analysis on the Harley/Crocker family tradition?