R
Names Stay contains recurring intense science-fiction violence and body-horror imagery, including forced physical transformations, injuries, corpses, experimentation, captivity, and death; some transformation scenes include disturbing physical detail. The manuscript also contains occasional explicit profanity and mature psychological themes involving trauma, coercion, loss of bodily autonomy, and a character’s past self-inflicted injuries, described as pain used for control rather than primarily as a suicide attempt. Romantic content is limited and non-explicit, and the material reviewed does not warrant SC or DA labels; the R rating is primarily driven by the sustained violence/body horror and mature sensitive themes.