Dear Consent Issues '23 Author

[robberbaroness]

Thank you for offering one of my choice fandoms, and thank you to this year’s Consent Issues exchange for going super gothic with the fandoms and original works pairings! I’m open to both non and dubcon for most of these, and have tried to provide some prompts for both where I can.



General likes: Bondage, love interest forced to watch, heavy melodrama, 'I have you now my pretty' scenarios', abduction and captivity, forced kissing, manhandling, obsessive villains, hurt/comfort, dialogue-heavy foreplay, posessiveness, impact play, defiant victims, threats, praise, bodice rippers, revenge tragedies, gothic horror, fairy tales.

General dislikes: Comeplay, golden showers or scat, ugly aggressors, victims under 16, victim death, victim blaming, daddy kink, mindbreak, race-based humiliation.

Red Eye
Jackson Rippner xcons Lisa Reisert

Aftermath - Xcon to Break Victim's Will/Spirit Fails to Do So
Alternate Universe - Dark Fantasy
Alternate Universe - Pirate
Alternate Universe - Vampire
Attitude - Defiant Victim
Arousal - Unwilling
Attitude - Victim Fights Back
Bondage
Bondage - Gagged and Bound
Captivity - Xcon during captivity
Captivity - Kidnapping
Captivity - Sex Slavery
Coercion - Into Confessing Love
Coercion - Scarpia Ultimatum
Dynamic - Yandere
Impact Play - Face Slapping
Intimacy - Forced Kissing
Intimacy - Falsely Gentle Threatening Touches
Motive - Obsessive Love
Praise - Condescending

This was THE movie for awful villain/heroine ships! Sexual tension turns dangerous, and danger turns into sexual tension. I was extremely happy when he said “I may have to steal you!” You could follow up on that, with him taking Lisa away as a prisoner, or set things during the events of the movie (the airplane bathroom scene would make sense, or when he follows her home.) My DNW for this movie is dwelling on the fate of the politician and his family- even if this is a version where Jackson wins, I don’t need the details. Or maybe Lisa still saves them, but Jackson decides to keep her rather than kill her for it? Or could she make some kind of bargain where she offers herself to her infatuated foe in exchange for their or her father’s life? The story can end with either Jackson or Lisa winning, or ambiguously, I’m fine with whatever.

As for the alternate universe tags, they looked fun! What if it was historical and Jackson was a pirate who abducted Lisa? Or what if she was a little too into this, to the point of making him nervous? Or vampires were involved? I’d be happy to see what you come up with!

The Invitation (2022)
Walter De Ville xcons Evelyn "Evie" Jackson Alexander (Invitation 2022)

Arousal - Aroused Victim
Arousal - Victim Aroused by Vampire Aggressor Feeding on Them
Attitude - Defiant Victim
Arousal - Unwilling
Attitude - Victim Unsure of Own Consent
Bondage
Character(s) Wanted It But Not Like This
Clothing - Forced to Wear Opulent Clothing/Lingerie
Dynamic - Aggressor and Victim Have Romantic Feelings For Each Other
Dynamic - Laughter During Xcon
Dynamic - Yandere
Intimacy - Forced Kissing
Intimacy - Victim Treated Like Lover
Intimacy - Tender Aggressor
Intimacy - Falsely Gentle Threatening Touches
Motive - Possessiveness
Motive - Obsessive Love
Motive - To Permanently Claim Victim
Scenario - Bathe them and bring them to me
Scenario - Forced to Live Out Darkest Fantasy

Nobody ever needs to make another sexy Dracula movie again after this one, they’ll never top it! I watched Evie with the simultaneous thoughts “Get out of there!” and “Hell yeah, get it!” Can you make me feel both those things in a fic? In the period where she’s his captive bride, he could try very hard to persuade her that her new life will be an enjoyable one, and between the fear and any vampiric magic at work, Evie could find herself confused about what she wants, even though she opposes him. If you set it after the wedding, she could be playing nice in order to get his guard down and free the maids or destroy the castle. Either way, his seduction should be forceful and her response should be complex! (I'm fine with all the grossness of vampire society being snobby towards Evie in canon, but please don't go into race-based humiliation or anything.) Special bonus points for references to the novel Dracula (or even things like historical AUs or time travel if it lets Evie save or be saved by the original heroes!)

Midsommar (2019)
Ingemar xcons Connie (Midsommar)

Altered States - Nonconsensual Drugging
Altered States - Taking Advantage of Helpless Victim
Arousal - Aroused Victim
Arousal - Forced Orgasm
Anal - Aggressor Rims Victim
Attitude - Aggressor is totally nonchalant about xcon
Bondage
Captivity - Xcon during captivity
Dynamic - Yandere
Intimacy - Aggressor Comforts Victim During Xcon
Intimacy - Forced Kissing
Intimacy - Victim Treated Like Lover
Intimacy - Tender Aggressor
Intimacy - Falsely Gentle Threatening Touches
Marriage - Bedding Ceremony
Motive - Aggressor In Love With Victim
Motive - Aggressor tells themself they are doing it out of love
Motive - Possessiveness
Motive - To Permanently Claim Victim

I really thought this was where the movie was going! Obviously not, but I think adding more “new blood” in the form of a captive bride would have been a creepy but intriguing reason he invited his ex-girlfriend to the farm. Connie isn’t in quite as vulnerable a psychological state as Danni, but Ingemar might still believe she’ll ultimately come around. The Harga’s passive-aggressive seduction, drugging and brainwashing could come into play here, along with more aggressive captivity. For a more dubcon direction, Connie could be heavily under the sway of all the drugs and everyone’s displays of affection until things progress farther and faster than she’d planned; for a more noncon direction, she could be actively arguing and resisting while confined on the farm, Ingemar emphasizing all the while that this will work out for the best. I’d rather you not emphasize the implied racism of the cult, though that’s probably obvious from the pairing!

Dracula - Bram Stoker
Dracula xcons Mina Harker
Dracula xcons Lucy Westenra

Aftermath - Aggressor reveals xcon details to victim's loved ones in order to taunt them
Aftermath - Victim's Loved Ones Take Revenge
Aftermath - Xcon to Break Victim's Will/Spirit Fails to Do So
Attitude - Defiant Victim
Arousal - Unwilling
Bondage
Bondage - Gagged and Bound
Captivity - Xcon during captivity
Clothing - Forced to Wear Revealing Clothes
Captivity - Kidnapping
Clothing - Forced to Wear Opulent Clothing/Lingerie
Coercion - Scarpia Ultimatum
Dynamic - Yandere
Forced to Watch - Love Interest
Intimacy - Forced Kissing
Intimacy - Falsely Gentle Threatening Touches
Marriage - Droit du Seigneur
Motive - Possessiveness
Praise - Condescending
Praise - Degrading

Dracula xcons Mina Harker

Ah, Dracula, the original sexy-scary vampire! (Well, his sexiness isn’t totally textual, but I think we all imagine him as at least a little bit sexy.) He canonically attacks Mina in a scene that reads very much like a rape, so for this challenge let’s make that explicit. I’m fine with borrowing the movie convention where he saw a picture Jonathan carried of her and was entranced with her beauty, in addition to simply taking revenge on the group of heroes through her, but please no reincarnated wife plot! You can write a more sexual version of the attack/blood exchange scene from the book, or veer off the written plotline and have him abduct her. Mina is a very brave and resourceful woman, so this could give her a chance to fight back through unconventional means (leaving a trail of clues for potential rescuers to follow, trying to delay him until sunrise ala Nosferatu.) I don’t want her to be in love with him- Jonathan is her true love!- but she can certainly be attracted and horrified by her own attraction. And since she canonically expresses sympathy for him, she might even feel some of that in her darkest hour, wondering how long he has had to live as a cold and eternally hungry ghost.

In the book, Dracula holds Jonathan’s life in pawn for Mina not to scream, so that’s absolutely something you can use! Jonathan might even be conscious and forced to watch, unable to help, which would certainly explain why the night was so traumatic it turned his hair white. Don’t kill him, and don’t make him think any less of Mina for what happens to her (something very similar happened to him, after all!) I could also see him being forced to participate in some way, in a (failed!) attempt on Dracula’s part to kill Mina’s love for him. Jonathan and Mina have a strong bond, but unfortunately that doesn’t mean bad things don’t happen to them.

Dracula xcons Lucy Westenra

Poor Lucy suffers a long ordeal of sickness and bad dreams before her death. What’s been happening to her that she’s afraid to tell anyone except Van Helsing about? Lucy is often interpreted as Dracula’s willing victim, but that isn’t how I read the book and that obviously isn’t what I’m looking to see here! You could go into her agonizing nights where an inhuman predator visits her again and again, or show him establishing his dominance of her on her first night as a real vampire. If you’d rather write something more dubcon-y, lean into the dreams and mind control. In this case, Lucy is having erotic dreams that both please her and frighten her in her inability to stop them. Why is she letting him in when she wants to keep him out? Why can’t she stop herself from opening the collar of her nightgown? Why does she find her body doing things that her mind is horrified by?

If you want to diverge from canon, you could have him carry her off to Carfax Abbey before she is entirely turned, and maybe even allow her to escape or be rescued rather than meet her death. It would be a good chance to revel in the spooky atmosphere, crumbling stones and moonless (or full moon) nights, Lucy shivering in her filmy white nightgown and pressed down with her back against the dirt. What’s more goth than that?

Inuyasha
Sesshoumaru xcons Kagome (Inuyasha)

Aftermath - Aggressor Feels Guilty
Aftermath - Aggressor reveals xcon details to victim's loved ones in order to taunt them
Aftermath - Xcon to Break Victim's Will/Spirit Fails to Do So
Attitude - Defiant Victim
Arousal - Unwilling
Attitude - Victim Mocks Aggressor(s)
Bondage - Gagged and Bound
Bondage - Stocks & Pillories
Captivity - Xcon during captivity
Captivity - Kidnapping
Clothing - Collars
Coercion - Scarpia Ultimatum
Forced to Watch - Love Interest
Inexperience - Victim Is In Over Their Head
Intimacy - Forced Kissing
Intimacy - Falsely Gentle Threatening Touches
Marriage - Droit du Seigneur
Motive - Possessiveness
Motive - To Permanently Claim Victim
Praise - Condescending
Scenario - Character's Beauty Makes Them A Frequent Target

Sesshoumaru was definitely the sexiest villain on the show, and I was always a little bit disappointed that he barely interacted with our heroine. So let's change that, shall we? He must have some interest in human girls, no matter how much he denies it, given the events of the sequel series. What if things had gone differently the first time around? What if he grew interested in Kagome, maybe at first just to steal something from Inuyasha, but then because her spirit intrigues him? Kagome is always getting kidnapped and menaced by bad guys on the show, so Sesshoumaru should get his turn! One last note: I don't know how old Kagome is supposed to be during the show's timeline, so either make her at least 16 or just don't bring it up.