Oof another one of these tropes. Yknow I see quite a lot of side stories where the antagonist top turns into a bottom. And that’s fine an all if that’s what they’re into. But I don’t know how to feel whenever it’s made that way as a form of punishment. It’s like “woo! Bad guy gets topped against his will, he gets his pride hurt! Yay!!” And it always feels so odd to me. Of course nine times out of ten the antagonist did terrible things to warrant that. But it feels wrong to both payback with more SA and make it seem like being a bottom is a shameful punishment. It kinda makes you see how authors and certain readers REALLY view how a bottom position is.
Rather than using sex and position as punishment, I’d much rather see the punishment be hitting the antagonist at a more emotional level. Like having to struggle from losing everything and going through the hardship of being broke and working multiple jobs. Learning to be a better person as the antagonist experiences and witnesses that this is how others struggle in life. Or maybe the antagonist falls deeply in love but grovels and suffers from their lover finding out about their past actions. Or their bad deeds coming back to haunt them by their enemies coming to get revenge, etc. I feel like this route would be SO MUCH more interesting and deeper but I hardly ever see it happen as most authors wanna get down to the sex and romance bit.
Oof another one of these tropes. Yknow I see quite a lot of side stories where the antagonist top turns into a bottom. And that’s fine an all if that’s what they’re into. But I don’t know how to feel whenever it’s made that way as a form of punishment. It’s like “woo! Bad guy gets topped against his will, he gets his pride hurt! Yay!!” And it always feels so odd to me. Of course nine times out of ten the antagonist did terrible things to warrant that. But it feels wrong to both payback with more SA and make it seem like being a bottom is a shameful punishment. It kinda makes you see how authors and certain readers REALLY view how a bottom position is.
Rather than using sex and position as punishment, I’d much rather see the punishment be hitting the antagonist at a more emotional level. Like having to struggle from losing everything and going through the hardship of being broke and working multiple jobs. Learning to be a better person as the antagonist experiences and witnesses that this is how others struggle in life. Or maybe the antagonist falls deeply in love but grovels and suffers from their lover finding out about their past actions. Or their bad deeds coming back to haunt them by their enemies coming to get revenge, etc. I feel like this route would be SO MUCH more interesting and deeper but I hardly ever see it happen as most authors wanna get down to the sex and romance bit.