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[brigdh]

Happy Mardi Gras!

Since flinging beads and sharing King Cake is much less satisfying virtually, how about a meme?

1. Comment with any character you know I've written.
2. Receive three bits of trivia about their sexuality: practices, preferences, experiences, fantasies, kinks, etc.
3. Profit!

(Stolen from an old post of laeria)

Comments

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

I'd love your insights into all of the above re: Alex, in just the first few months with Richard. And, if you'd like, in the first few months without Richard. A "compare and contrast" kind of thing.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Early Alec/Richard

1. The first time they almost had sex, Alec offered to sleep with Richard in exchange for a place to stay and dinner. Richard refused, Alec took offense at that, and they both spent the next few weeks feeling awkward and vaguely dissatisfied.

2. Alec had had a fairly vast amount of experience with sex but relatively little with relationships, so figuring out how to treat someone when you actually intend to continue interacting with them took a while. It tending to involve a lot of leaving immediately after sex and not returning for days, or deliberately trying to find and then break boundaries.

3. The thing that most surprised him about Richard was Richard's refusal to take advantage of how Alec deliberately made himself vulnerable.

After Richard leaves:

1. Alec never entirely stopped having sex with other people; it's just that he preferred Richard. When Richard isn't there, this is still true.

2. The drugs are more effective at forgetting Richard. Hurting other people, though– that convinces him he doesn't deserve Richard, and it lasts much longer.

3. But he won't hurt people who are entirely defenseless, which is why his relationship with the Black Rose lasts for so long. She grew up in Riverside, and knows his tricks already.

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you! For some reason I always think of Alec as being pretty inexperienced when they met (which I'm not really able to reconcile with University, societal mores, etc). But there is this:

Alec breathed out in a feathery sigh as Richard sought out his pleasure, always careful not to startle him with anything sudden or unexpected.

But then, how did he become so debauched later? Did he, like, rush to catch up when Richard left? Or, as you suggest, did he do lots of exploring even while Richard was still around? Did they explore together?

Oh,my. What a pleasant conundrum to ponder today.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I tend to prefer character with more sexual and romantic experience rather than less, but that's obviously just personal taste and a lot of people prefer the opposite. But I always read that line less as Alec being new to sex and more him having unpleasant memories or expectations.

I am very open to the idea of them exploring together! Though I see Richard as more inclined to monogamy than Alec is, but hey: threesomes.

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

less as Alec being new to sex and more him having unpleasant memories or expectations.

I...never thought of it that way. More with the pleasant pondering!

[egelantier.livejournal.com]

Hurting other people, though– that convinces him he doesn't deserve Richard, and it lasts much longer.

oh alec, you poor psychotic cat.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hahahaa, best description.