The Oocyte Mother

He was the chosen vessel.

From the age of eighteen, his body was forced to learn "how to ovulate."

He loathes the eggs that emerge from his own body, yet cannot escape the tides of fate.

Even without being impregnated, he begins to produce them.

In his dreams, he hears whispers from within his body, calling him "the womb," again and again.

All he wants to ask is:

--"If I'm just a shell made to lay eggs, will you still hold me?"

Theme: Set against a fantastical backdrop, this work explores the deprivation of bodily autonomy, reproductive fate, and the conflict with individual will through the process of "male bodies being turned into vessels." The protagonist experiences humiliation, fear, and awakening as he is repeatedly impregnated and made to ovulate. Gradually, he breaks free of the label of "a vessel forced to lay eggs," searching for a sense of self and a sliver of possibility in his fate. Focusing on body literature, institutional oppression, relational dependence, and spiritual redemption, the work aims to show that even in a body one cannot escape, it is possible to "hold on to oneself."