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So so so.
I want to write a fic about sex slaves. Like I have this REALLY SAD fic in my head and I want it. I don't necessarily want to write this sad fic that is sad, but the idea in my head is really sad. Like it starts with Cobb and Mal getting married, and as a gift, her mother gives her two young slaves that will eventually grow up to be Arthur and Ariadne. It's pretty clear that they're intended to be sex slaves, but they're kind of uncomfortably young. I think Miles teaches them how to frame dreams for Mal and Cobb's entertainment, and eventually I think there is a relationship formed there, like they do care for each other and Ariadne and Arthur are very treasured.
Except Mal and Cobb never think that Ariadne and Arthur would want their freedom. It just does not occur to them. Ariadne never talks about her life before, and Arthur was born a slave. They love them; Ariadne and Arthur love them and only talk about freedom with each other. They're afraid to ask, really, because they don't know if they've earned their board and there's a fear that Cobb and Mal may not love them enough to let them go.
But then Mal dies, and the property clause on Ariadne and Arthur reverts to Cobb's mother in law. I think just before her death there had been a lot of tension and maybe her mother is just hurt and angry but she calls to settle all of Mal's accounts, which are higher than Cobb can pay in a moment's notice and keep everything. :( So his MiL is like "sell the slaves." And Cobb is like D: like he comes up with enough money to keep one of them, but they won't be separated. They're fucking devastated, though, because it's standard that when an owner dies, their beloved slaves go free. And they're not. They're being sold
...and then other stuff happens, but Eames--who was a Gladiator and was owned by a man who rewarded him handsomely for his wins, enough that he fought as a free man long before he was through--steps it to buy them as a favor to Cobb, and they're so skittish of him because of what happened while they were in slave galleries. :( I feel like Ariadne offers herself to Eames to keep him from beating Arthur and he's like D: "no, no, that's--No." and he tells arthur about it, later, when he thinks he has their trust, that he couldn't have done it because it would have felt like rape.
And Arthur gives him this cold look and pulls away and hisses, "Make no mistake, Sir. It will always be rape as long as one of the people can't say no. And we can't truly refuse you, not when we know what we have to look forward to."
\o? And then there is fixing.
I want to write a fic about sex slaves. Like I have this REALLY SAD fic in my head and I want it. I don't necessarily want to write this sad fic that is sad, but the idea in my head is really sad. Like it starts with Cobb and Mal getting married, and as a gift, her mother gives her two young slaves that will eventually grow up to be Arthur and Ariadne. It's pretty clear that they're intended to be sex slaves, but they're kind of uncomfortably young. I think Miles teaches them how to frame dreams for Mal and Cobb's entertainment, and eventually I think there is a relationship formed there, like they do care for each other and Ariadne and Arthur are very treasured.
Except Mal and Cobb never think that Ariadne and Arthur would want their freedom. It just does not occur to them. Ariadne never talks about her life before, and Arthur was born a slave. They love them; Ariadne and Arthur love them and only talk about freedom with each other. They're afraid to ask, really, because they don't know if they've earned their board and there's a fear that Cobb and Mal may not love them enough to let them go.
But then Mal dies, and the property clause on Ariadne and Arthur reverts to Cobb's mother in law. I think just before her death there had been a lot of tension and maybe her mother is just hurt and angry but she calls to settle all of Mal's accounts, which are higher than Cobb can pay in a moment's notice and keep everything. :( So his MiL is like "sell the slaves." And Cobb is like D: like he comes up with enough money to keep one of them, but they won't be separated. They're fucking devastated, though, because it's standard that when an owner dies, their beloved slaves go free. And they're not. They're being sold
...and then other stuff happens, but Eames--who was a Gladiator and was owned by a man who rewarded him handsomely for his wins, enough that he fought as a free man long before he was through--steps it to buy them as a favor to Cobb, and they're so skittish of him because of what happened while they were in slave galleries. :( I feel like Ariadne offers herself to Eames to keep him from beating Arthur and he's like D: "no, no, that's--No." and he tells arthur about it, later, when he thinks he has their trust, that he couldn't have done it because it would have felt like rape.
And Arthur gives him this cold look and pulls away and hisses, "Make no mistake, Sir. It will always be rape as long as one of the people can't say no. And we can't truly refuse you, not when we know what we have to look forward to."
\o? And then there is fixing.