PORNATHON.

[puella_nerdii]

Have been Thinking Thinky Thoughts about Things, thanks to Mith's post, and now I'm formulating ideas on gender and sexuality and how I view and use both in my work that might become an essay at some point.

Of course, lots of thinking along those lines also makes me think of porn. And when laylah puts up a pornmeme just as I'm thinking about all that.

Comments

Re: Vayne is still a teenager, I think.

[puella_nerdii]

Oh, Vayne is completely in love with his own cleverness. I wrote a fic of him a while back -- Gallows Tree -- where it was a Wild West AU, but still all about Vayne swaggering and making a crowd at a lynching fall head-over-heels in love with him. And he gets a kick out of that. So yes, I can see the thrill he'd get in winning someone to his cause.

On the other hand, he's efficient. He's perfectly willing to kill people who get in his way, if it's the most efficient solution. So nuking Rabanastre in the beginning of the game is right out, because he's trying not to prove himself a tyrant, but getting rid of Drace, who's supposed to be part of his House's personal guard and yet appears quite ready to arrest and execute him? Yeah. Granted, he might not have the power to off a Judge Magister until he's Emperor, but I guess my point is that eventually Vayne will, in Archadian fashion, find out to get rid of the people who are proving themselves problematic. I think he did try to charm Drace at first, but I think she never bought it. I think she's very aware of who he is and what he's capable of doing, and while I think that makes for a very interesting dynamic -- as you do -- I don't see it as a sexual one. (Partially because I can't see Vayne-in-gametime having any kind of sexual congress where he's not in control, and he wouldn't be in control with Drace unless we really got into unpleasantness there, which - yeah, no.)

I think it's just something that stems from our different readings of the characters. *grin* But hey, as long as we're both having fun, no worries.