Awww married name.
Have to agree. I really, really wish Berna would take off that collar
Really, it makes no sense for her to wear one - it will just cause misunderstandings. And it's not even tight-fitting, removing it will only take a single movement with a boltcutter!
and stop liking the idea of being a slave so much. She's both traumatized and has horrible memories of slavery... yet she's happy to be one. It just doesn't fit right to me.
I don't think it's her enjoying the idea of being a slave as much as her internalizing the behaviour typical for her former station. It's like, if you've been taught your whole life to address your elders with a polite honorific, it might be weird calling them without one if you move somewhere with a different culture. Similarly, it might feel strange for her to stay in a dirty room when she has free time and nothing better to do.