Trope Bingo

[meridian_rose]

mind control	time travel	coming out (of the closet)	au: college / highschool	meet the parents / family
unexpected friendship	road trip	slavefic	twenty-four hours to live	matchmaker
bodyswap	curtainfic	FREE ★ SPACE	epistolary	against all odds
genderswap	deathfic	holidayfic	marriage	kidfic
sex pollen	power dynamics	au: apocalypse	hurt / comfort	metafiction

I'm disappointed by having "sex pollen" on my card since my veto was "fuck or die" and I see both of those tropes are being non-con in nature, taking away people's agency to refuse sex. The best I can come up with is "Lost Girl" because Bo's succubus nature generates sexual attraction in order for her to feed on the energy of a sexual act. This once included her somewhat apologetically seducing a self-confessed gay male security guard. So I could icon/picspam Bo, I think.

Comments

[meridian_rose]

True, but I could work with those tropes without the sexual aspect - vampire compulsion to forget an incident, icons from Gladiator or Spartacus for example. Whereas sex pollen really is about *sex*.

I started the show at 1x03 so I didn't know about that. Although I have strong feelings about rapist characters which are mostly that they pretty much deserve whatever they get, preferably ending in a gruesome death. (Unless that's also complicated, like Spartacus's Gannicus being forced to rape Melitta. He's a victim, with his owners Lucretia and Batiatus being the ones truly responsible for the rape. He didn't decide it would fun to grab an unwilling woman off the street and force her to have sex.)

Seducing a gay man or an asexual of any flavour disturbs me because the attraction they're feeling isn't real and it could cause problems later as they work through the aftermath. It's hard enough to be any flavour of queer without having your identity forcibly brought into confusion.
But then all vampire mind control has the same problem. It's complicated when the supernatural is involved.

Off the top of my head I can't think of any other occasions Bo has deliberately had sex with an unwilling person; she tends to be able to pick up bar patrons fairly easy without non-conning them, and Dyson is always ready to provide her with emergency energy when she's injured. When she's investigating, she tends to get people steamed up for information, but not to actually have sex with them.