Drabble (Ficlet?) a Day #17

[beckerbell]

Wasn't TFP2 supposed to be out today? After yesterday's scare, I DEMAND IT NOW. WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT?

Also, you know what's stupid? I'm looking at the themes for this month's 31_days and thinking, "Maybe that wouldn't be so difficult since I technically have all 30 of my ficlets done already..." and ad;slfkjaslkj I blame

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....this was probably better saved for in the morning anyway. ;__;

[beckerbell]

I can't find the interview offhand, of course, but I remember the story from somewhere and it makes sense to me because, to my mind, Sho is always the accidental perv. Like, he's not constantly thinking about it like I could believe certain other members are, but he's got a perverted streak to him. Every so often he comes out with something totally ecchi-minded, so I can totally just see him spending an evening watching a porn marathon.

The image of everyone else wandering in and commenting that, oh, he's still at it or Aiba cheerfully plopping down onto the sofa to watch as well until Sho grinds out that could he please leave is kind of totally cracking me up, ILUSM.

I could buy the whole "not knowing what to do"/"afraid of it" thing if it were explained with the fact that it's their first time having sex with someone from their band;

Yeah, same here. You'd have to be careful with it because they're not nervous pre-teens about to have sex for the first time, they know how things go, but... I imagine it something a little like the pre-concert energy/jumpiness that goes on? Once you're in the middle of it, it's fine, you know what to do, you're still focused on not messing up, but it's something you love. Beforehand, you're nervous and edgey and trying to mentally prepare yourself. (I keep thinking of that post on sex & flirting in Japan and trying to factor that into my characterizations.) It's just... that's completely not the same thing as being afraid of it, you know?

Nino... yes, he'd be the one to bottom simply because he wants to feel protected and cuddled and loved.

And, of course, there's a really big difference between wanting someone to pay attention to him/cuddle him than being emotionally fragile and needing it. Nino does like attention and does get lonely without the others, but he's not crying on the inside or emo about it. I think he would bottom more than not just because he wants that person's full attention and it's easier to focus on it from that position.

Interestingly enough, I go back and forth on Sho and Nino, because Sho confuses me with his passiveness and how easily he lets the others roll right over him. It's so easy to imagine any of them pushing Sho down and doing what they want with him and Sho loves his bandmates enough (and tolerates them enough XD) to let them.

When I first got into fandom, I went with the (seeming?) general consensus that Sho was probably the one who topped most often, because that's the kind of person he seemed like. But the more I watch him (and the way he interacts with the other members) and the more I think about it, the less sense that makes to me. Like, with the latest Shukudai-kun episode and the dilatancy scene where they make Sho agree to have holes cut into his shirt--he folds after the other members eith +_+ or >:D or .___. at him for a few minutes. And then they ALL start manhandling him--Jun holds his shoulders, Aiba cuts into his shirt, Ohno holds his arms, Nino helps tug on his shirt, etc. Sho doesn't even seem to twitch during all of this, he just lets them all do what they want, like he's used to it/that's his natural reaction.

It's all too easy to translate that into imaginging what he's like in bed with them. (....this is really starting to sound like I'm trying to convert you, but I'm not! Honest! XD Half of the reason this gets so long is that I'm sounding out my own views and opinions, putting them into words to make my own view clearer.)

[....*sigh*]

We just can't win this fight, I guess.

[kegom]

“Sho the accidental perv” is so much love, because I hardly know anyone of this age-group (male or female) who is not a bit perverted - but the nicest people I know are usually the accidental pervs! XD

And really, they’re guys who are friends and work together in a group, so it would be rather strange if they didn’t make perverted comments! ^____^

Actually, that’s something I often find weird about certain characterizations, because I might love passive!Ohno to pieces - but if he’s passive because he’s such an innocent, insecure little bunny, then (unless it’s a AU that explains those characteristics somehow) I just go “…what?”, because passive or not, Ohno is still a 27 year old guy, so even if he for some reason didn’t have any practical knowledge about sex, he’d sure as hell have a vast theoretical knowledge. XD
Though actually, now that I think of it, it would be kind of cool to have an AU that has one of the guys being brought up in a remote cloister - possibly nun-cloister for the additional crack - and coming to the city as a young adult to “learn about worldly ways” and meeting the rest of Arashi along the way…

S-so yes. I love me some perverted!Arashi. …Which might possibly be the reason why, after our conversation about it, my brain just wouldn’t leave me alone until I wrote fic about Sho and the hotel room porn. (Or at least Arashi and Sho’s hotel room porn. Oh, btw, there’s another Arashi story above that one, in case you should happen to be like me and wonder why the bar on the side is so far down…^^”)

You'd have to be careful with it because they're not nervous pre-teens about to have sex for the first time, they know how things go, but... I imagine it something a little like the pre-concert energy/jumpiness that goes on?

If the fic had the right circumstances, I could also imagine a bit of fear. Like, they’re sure they’re in love with each other, they have decided that they want to have sex with each other - but there’s still this lingering fear that somehow, actually having sex might change everything, including the group dynamics. I could totally believe a certain “Oh God, will everything turn out alright when we’re doing this?!” panic. (I could most easily imagine that with Jun and Sho, actually, because they’re the kind of people who could be 100% sure that they’re in love and nothing bad will happen and still worry.)

I keep thinking of that post on sex & flirting in Japan and trying to factor that into my characterizations.

Me too! XD
It’s really fascinating to see Arashi’s relationships in the light of that…^^” (Though only theoretically, because I do feel kind of weird for thinking about this so hard… :/) Especially Nino’s and Ohno’s on-stage/on-air relationship, because now I can’t help but wonder whether Nino is trying to imply something when he touches Ohno all the time, but very emphatically forbids him to touch him back…

M-my thoughts on Sho come in reply to the other comment, because this is getting too long, too. ^^"