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Bulletproof kinks
3/12/11 20:09Since the very first novel I wrote when I was nineteen I have been writing stories where the older, wiser person in the OTP thinks or says "I love you, therefore we MUST NOT BE TOGETHER! Because (a) I am a bad person who has done bad things or (b) TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES."
Still doing it.
I should be annoyed by the paternalism of it all, and to an extent I am -- the ending of the first Spider-Man movie is infuriating, but I also kinda love the angst, I gotta say.
I think it's something to do with writing kind of unbalanced power dynamics, and being easily skeeved by them at the same time; when one person is older and wiser, I don't want them to take advantage of a more naive and trusting partner. I want them to realize they could take advantage of a more naive and trusting partner and then do the opposite of that.
Of course, whether it's calculated or not, "I love you, therefore we MUST NOT BE TOGETHER! Because I am a bad person!" often has the opposite effect.
Still doing it.
I should be annoyed by the paternalism of it all, and to an extent I am -- the ending of the first Spider-Man movie is infuriating, but I also kinda love the angst, I gotta say.
I think it's something to do with writing kind of unbalanced power dynamics, and being easily skeeved by them at the same time; when one person is older and wiser, I don't want them to take advantage of a more naive and trusting partner. I want them to realize they could take advantage of a more naive and trusting partner and then do the opposite of that.
Of course, whether it's calculated or not, "I love you, therefore we MUST NOT BE TOGETHER! Because I am a bad person!" often has the opposite effect.