Himself.
His true self. Buried under those layers of social selves, family selves, expected selves. Under it all, his true desires - his true authentic self.
And what if the true authentic self he finally found was the self desperately wanting to express his true submissive slave desires?
He had lived so long with those deeply buried desires. So long, even though he was barely 23, those desires had seemingly been calling up from the depth to him for his entire life.
He had been with "his" therapist for five years now, the one his family had found to help him since he turned eighteen.
And only now, having himself discovered that discrete add for "Submissive Slave Desires, Inc" and following its seemingly innocuous suggestions - to see one of their suggested therapists in addition to "his" own, to get one of their suggested lawyers in addition to "his" own, to carefully consult "his" therapist and "his" lawyers about what theirs were suggesting. Only now, "his" therapist and "his" lawyers had to admit, despite their strenuous objections, that it was truly his choice, and perhaps his submissive slave desires were as sane and safe as anything "his" own advisors had ever been able to suggest for him.
And so, despite the immense fears shouted frenetically at him by his social selves and family selves and expected selves, he took the plunge, and signed those documents the therapist and lawyer from Submissive Slave Desires had urged on him, and it was finally done:
On paper, he was now penniless and in immense debt; debt to the trust that now possessed all his former immense wealth - the trust that was initially completely under his control, but which he had just turned over to the committee of "his" therapist and lawyers and their therapists and lawyers, a committee whose sole guiding document was his own impassioned and detailed expression of his deep desires.
Submissive Slave Desires, Inc, now controlled his life, with the restraining influence of "his" old advisors keeping him safe enough, but not so "safe" that his true self was prevented from emerging.
*******
The first day of his new life felt amazing, as if an immense weight that had been crushing him was finally lifted.
He was left on the side of a country road, in the middle of nowhere. He was practically naked, wearing a brief ragged loincloth that barely covered his private parts - leaving him in a way more exposed than if he were completely naked. He had been instructed to proceed down the road in his bare feet till he found the rural farm, and then beg to be allowed to work there for just food and shelter. (His immense debt to the trust obligated him to follow such instructions.) Those at the farm were expecting him, had already agreed with Submissive Slave Desire, Inc, to take him in for a substantial monthly fee from his trust, and to earn that fee by treating him as the lowest work slave his own imagination had imagined. ("His" old therapist and lawyers on the committee could not object, that imagination had already been repeatedly documented in that committee's sole guiding document.)
And so his primordial desire, to freely choose to become the lowest of slaves, was at last to be fulfilled.
"What do you you want?" The woman standing near the barn asked as he walked towards her.