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Okay but let’s break this down for a second. Because I know y’all probably think I’m about to start with his living room couch, right? But no. I actually think there are WAY more spots in Javi’s apartment where this man likes to fuck. And honestly not just in the apartment either.

Kitchen

I just KNOW Javier is the kind of man who’d invite you over for a drink. He pours it for you in the kitchen, hands you the glass… and you end up sitting on the counter because why the hell not. You’re talking, laughing, just hanging out while Javi slowly drinks from his own glass and watches you the whole time. The way you talk. The way you smile. And then suddenly you realize he’s really fucking close. Leaning toward you. Staring at your lips. You stop talking.

And he almost looks like he’s in a trance when he slowly slides one hand between your knees and gently pushes them apart. Still watching your reaction the entire time, making sure he’s not crossing a line because let’s be honest, that man isn’t a fucking creep and he absolutely cares about consent!

But then he notices the way your body reacts. The way you shake a little under his touch. The way you clearly don’t wanna stop at just talking anymore. So he moves even closer between your thighs. Pushes your dress up slightly and slips his hand into your panties. At first he just touches you. Slow. Feeling around, getting you worked up on purpose.

And by that point your breathing is already uneven, so you carefully put your half-finished drink farther down the counter before you accidentally knock it over. Then you lean toward him while he’s practically pressed against you and whisper in his ear that you want him.

And for Javi? That’s the signal. Especially when he can already feel how wet you are. So he slides his fingers into you and fuck, that man knows EXACTLY what he’s doing. Where to touch you. How much pressure to use. When to slow down and when to speed up. Like he’s fully aware of how easily he can make you fall apart under his hands.

And after he’s gotten you properly worked up with his fingers, then comes the part you’ve both been thinking about the whole damn time. Him. And his big cock. And trust me, Javier Peña is not gentle when he finally takes you right there on that kitchen counter. He doesn’t bother carrying you to the bedroom or moving this to the couch first. Nope. He just fucks you right there, hard enough to make the counter shake a little while he keeps one hand tangled in your hair. Not rough enough to hurt, just enough to tilt your head back so he can get at your neck because yes, that man is absolutely a neck biter. 

Shower

Yeah. Javi definitely likes shower sex. It’s wet everywhere, messy as hell, and hot. His hands keep slipping over your skin while he soaps you up, and trust me, that man does not miss a single inch of your body. He’s thorough. Especially when it comes to your tits. Pretty sure he suddenly finds it VERY important to make sure they’re properly covered in soap.

Of course, you don’t keep your hands to yourself either. You start washing him too. Running your hands over his neck, his chest… and when your palms slowly move lower across his stomach, you literally feel his breathing hitch under your touch. He looks down at you for a second, squeezes one of your breasts softly in his hand.

But you keep going lower. And the second your soapy hands wrap around his cock, you feel him get even harder in your grip. Not that you have to try very hard. Javier’s a visual man. He already likes the sight of you standing there naked and soaked in front of him, touching him, letting him touch you, so he’s been hard for a while already.

You stroke him a few times, slowly running your hand along him, thumb brushing over the exposed tip, and that man is completely fucked after that. He turns you around fast, pressing your back against his chest while he leans down close to your ear and quietly tells you to put your hands against the tiles.

And you do. You let him do whatever he wants with you.

His hands slide over your breasts, your stomach, before one arm pulls you tighter against him. You can feel his hard cock pressing against your ass while he fingers you slowly from behind.

And when you start squirming under his hands, he just quietly warns you: “Don’t move, princesa…” or something like that because yeah… Javi likes control. And in the shower, when you’re falling apart under his hands, he wants every bit of it.

But he’s not trying to make you come from his fingers tonight. So after a while he pulls them out, kisses your neck for a moment, palms all over your body, playing with your breasts while he keeps you there whining and desperate, not knowing if he’s actually gonna keep going or not.

And when you finally beg him because you can’t fucking take it anymore, arching your ass back against him to give him better access, he mutters a quiet curse in Spanish before finally pushing his cock into your pussy. His hands grip your hips while he fucks you under the hot water. Hard. Fast. But every now and then he slows down just enough to drag it out. Because tonight? He wants to hear you beg for him.

Couch

And yes, we finally got to the couch. Honestly there’s not even that much to say here. The couch is just one of Javi’s favorite convenient options. Like… imagine you’re watching a movie together or just laying there talking. And obviously it turns into sex. Because movie night with Javier Peña is NEVER just movie night. It always somehow turns into fucking too.

At first it starts innocent. Him pulling you closer against him little by little. His hand resting on your thigh before slowly sliding higher and higher between them. Testing you a little. Seeing if you’re into it too, if you want him just as much. Not that Javi’s some desperate sex pest, oh god NO. That man loves sex. Loves having a lot of sex too, yes. But he’s still respectful about it. Always paying attention to you first. But let’s be honest here… Javier Peña is really fucking hard to resist. Living with that man would probably feel like permanent ovulation that never ends. Actually no, it gets WORSE the more he’s around, so eventually you probably end up needing the sex more than he does.

Anyway. The couch is comfortable for him. He’s got his favorite afghan blanket there, yes, the S1E2 afghan blanket, and he likes fucking there because it can be both rough and comfortable at the same time. Sometimes exactly like we saw with Helena in Narcos. But honestly? I think he likes it even more when he’s sitting down and you’re riding him.

Not because he’s lazy. Not because it’s easier. But because then you control the pace. And he gets to just sit there and watch you bounce on his cock, watch the way you take him, the way your body reacts to him. And he’s deep too. Javi LOVES being deep inside you. Plus he gets to look right into your eyes the whole time. Hands all over your back, your waist, your thighs. It feels more intimate to him that way.

And honestly? I don’t think he’d fuck just anybody like that. With Helena or random hookups it’d probably stay more like the Narcos couch scene. Hot, messy, fast. But softer, more domestic Javi? That man LOVES when you climb into his lap and ride him with his hands all over you. And when he finally comes with those loud groans slipping out of him, he’s got perfect access to your neck and collarbones so he can bite and kiss all over the spots he’s obsessed with.

Car

Yeah, you heard me right. The car. And not because Javi’s some horny teenager who can’t fuck anywhere else. But because sometimes neither of you can wait that long. You or him. Or honestly both of you. Like after a bar or dinner where, according to Javi, the waiter was looking at you a little too obviously for his liking.

And sure, ideally he’d wanna “punish” you for it later in bed or maybe in the shower like I already said above… but let’s be honest. Just imagining it already has him half hard behind the steering wheel, so at that point there’s really no saving either of you anymore.

Yeah, climbing into the backseat feels kinda ridiculous at first. Knees everywhere, awkward positioning for two seconds. But then Javi just casually pushes your panties aside like he’s done this a hundred times before, pulls you onto his lap and doesn’t waste a second before guiding you down on his cock. And fuck… the second you sink down onto him, you can already feel his hips pushing back up against you. He doesn’t wanna give you full control now. Not completely. Javi likes being active too much for that. But there’s only so many positions you can manage in the backseat of a car before somebody breaks a fucking leg. Still… it works! Especially because once you’re both moving together, sweaty and desperate in the cramped backseat, it honestly just makes it hotter.

And let’s be real here… I lowkey think part of Javi likes the risk too. Not in a reckless way, but the thought that someone could catch you? The tinted windows fogging up while he’s fucking you in the backseat? Yeah. That definitely does something to him. Especially when you start trying to stay quiet and fail miserably.

At some point he slides one hand between your bodies, finds your clit with his fingers while his cock keeps thrusting deep inside you, and suddenly it’s way too much all at once. And after a while, once he’s got you shaking and coming around him from both his cock and his fingers, you’re practically falling apart in his lap while you clamp down hard around him just as he groans and comes inside you.

And honestly? You both already know this was only round one. Round two’s waiting at home. Probably in that shower.

Bed

Classic. But for Javi? Definitely not boring. The thing is, he doesn’t fuck just anybody in his bed. Hookups stay on the couch. Maybe the kitchen if things get heated enough. But the bed? That’s for the more domestic kind of sex. The kind that only happens once he trusts you enough to actually be vulnerable around you. That’s where the more intimate positions come in. Classic missionary. Spooning sex too, and honestly that one feels VERY personal with Javi.

Sometimes when he really wants to get deep, he’ll throw your legs over his shoulders during missionary and pull your ass up toward him so he can fuck into you deeper. And he LOVES it like that. Deep inside you, full view of your body underneath him, while his fingers are still rubbing your clit at the same time. Honestly that combination is heaven for him. The visual part of it. The sounds you make. Feeling your body react under him while he watches you completely fall apart.

And I fully believe Javier LOVES late night sex too. Like waking up in the middle of the night while the fan hums softly somewhere in the room and he can feel your body beside him under the sheets. At first he doesn’t even mean to wake you up. He just wants the closeness. So he starts moving against you a little. Touching you. Sleepy kisses against your shoulder, your neck, your back. Hands slowly wandering over your body until eventually you wake up anyway because there’s absolutely no way you’d sleep through Javier Peña touching you like that. And because it’s him, resisting never really lasts long. So either he slowly rolls you onto your back and settles himself between your thighs again… or you climb on top of him yourself and sink down onto his cock like this was your idea all along and not exactly what he wanted from the second he woke up hard next to you.

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Motivations, Goals, and Backstory: All Bear wants to do is ask out his childhood friend Nikki, but he lacks the courage to do so. To that end, he uses a One Wish Willow to make her obsessed with him and only him. It’s a very simple motivation with a very simple solution, but it’s not this simple start that’s important; it is the lengths Bear goes to to ignore everything that is wrong so that he can enjoy the fruits of said solution. At every twist and turn he makes sure to ignore anything that might help him in his situation if it jeopardizes what he has with Nikki. It ends up being equal parts pathetic, idiot, and truly disturbing for reasons that will soon become clear.

Performance: Bear would not work as a character at all if there wasn’t an exceptionally strong performance behind him, and Michael Johnston doesn’t disappoint. He manages to inject just the right level of pathetic wet puppy charm into Bear that it’s easy to get sucked in and least have a tiny bit of pity for him, and even when that pity evaporates Johnston still manages to make Bear chillingly compelling. People have rightfully been praising Inde Navarette for her performance as Nikki, but I don’t think that performance would hit quite as hard if she didn’t have such an excellent partner to bounce off of. Her phenomenal acting would just not land if Bear wasn’t holding his own, you know?

Evilness: Bear is quite literally the reason women choose the bear.

While he at first comes off like a pathetic, insecure, desperate manchild who is just incapable of having a spine and spitting out his true feelings, he pretty quickly grabs a sled and starts sliding down the slippery slope. He’s put off by Freaky Nikki at first, but he pretty quickly gets over it and then continuously has sex with her and does so little to actually solve the obvious problems that it’s genuinely callous. And then comes a moment where everything is explicitly laid out to him in terms he couldn’t possibly ignore, and the response he gives…

This guy is a fucking 5/5. He might be one of the single biggest pieces of shit in modern horror. Just a wholly selfish, vile, and irredeemable chud.

Final Fate: After getting all his friends killed and Freaky Nikki has completely lost it, Bear decides the only thing left to do is kill himself and end the wish. In a moment of true selflessness, a moment of self-reflection that shows that these horrific experiences have finally made him realize what a cunt he was, he downs an entire bottle of his pills so he can free Nikki from her tor—HAHAHA oh my god I can’t keep going with a straight face, of course Bear pussies out and tries to save himself by vomiting up the pills, because he is a fucking irredeemable asshole.

Too bad he didn’t count on Freaky Nikki using the One Wish Willow to make him love her with all his heart… his heart which is now in the process of stopping, since he’s so in love he forgot to vomit them up. He drops dead, Nikki is freed, and now all she can do is scream at the carnage as she is surrounded by the corpses of her most cherished friends. What a happy ending!

Keep in mind that Bear could have avoided all this if he had paid attention at numerous points instead of continuing to selflessly exploit a woman for his emotional and sexual gratification. Dude ruined half a dozen lives because of how much he sucks and he couldn’t even die properly, with even an ounce of dignity.

Standout Scene: It’s hard to single out just one moment, but I think the entire opening sequence that establishes his character and then sets him up to be sympathetic so all the rug pulls later hit harder is what I’m going to go with. We some him flubbing a practice date, establish he’s a complete pussy who can’t ask out his dream girl, and then on top of everything else he comes home to find his cat dead. You can’t help but feel bad for the guy… and that’s what makes how evil he ends up being even more disturbing.

Best Quote: For most of the movie, there is a level of plausible deniability Bear can be granted. He’s stuck in a bizarre supernatural situation he doesn’t understand, and while that doesn’t make his actions any less gross, pathetic, and creepy I could at least see a few shreds of sympathy afforded to him since he radiates such a pathetic, hopeless energy.

And then comes the scene where Nikki lays it all out for him. Freaky Nikki is asleep, which gives her a brief moment of control that allows her to explain her situation and how she is essentially a prisoner in her own body, that Bear isn’t with her and is loving a shadow, and then begs him to kill her to free her from the suffering. His response?

Coldly replying, “What’s so bad about being with me?”

Let’s be clear: Before this, he was at best a massive scumbag. From the point of view of his friends he has been taking advantage of an emotionally unstable woman going through an emotional breakdown, and he has been pretty placid and unquestioning with regards to the morality of his wish. He had sex with Nikki a lot, and even if he’s too stupid to realize it at first we as the audience can understand he is raping her. But this right here? This single line fully and completely erased any shred of sympathy I had for Bear. This is where he fully and completely embraces his role as a villain protagonist, and it makes every ounce of suffering that occurs after entirely his fault.

It’s also the most blatant, glaring sign that tells the audience that Bear doesn’t actually care about Nikki. He coveted her, lusted after her, and was fine enjoying her stripped of agency and obsessed with him until she started killing his friends. The fact he is so utterly cowardly that even with the numerous instances of disturbing behavior exhibited prior to this moment, and he still says that… he’s a true bastard.

Final Thoughts & Score: Bear is one of the single best villain protagonists in recent memory, and is a big part as to why Obsession is as good as it is. I mean, a story like this can’t work if half of the main characters

I like how at the start, it’s actually easy to be sympathetic towards him. His cat dies tragically, he has an unrequited crush on a girl, he lacks the confidence to say anything to her, and his friend gives him awful advice… He’s trying, but he’s pathetic to an almost endearing degree. And then he gets the One Wish Willow and in a fit of irritation due to his own cowardice, he magically roofies his crush and despite all the red flags pretty quickly enters a “romantic” relationship with her, complete with lots and lots of sex (read: rape). And despite the numerous points in which he is confronted with how awful what he’s doing is, he steadfastly refuses to grow and change, selfishly clinging to his disturbing relationship. In fact, he practically embraces being evil, and even in his final moments his cowardice and selfishness rear their heads and ensure the ending is black as coal.

In terms of vileness, I actually think he’s comparable to Humbert Humbert, the villain protagonist pedophile narrator of Lolita. Both of them are completely deluded into believing their actions are right, and that their constant rape of their victims is not only not rape but also better than any alternative for them. I mean, should they not love this? Is death or harm truly worse than their love? While I wouldn’t say Bear is quite as bad as a serial child rapist, being someone who strips a woman of her autonomy so he can fuck her repeatedly and then just ignore her pleas isn’t too many steps down from that if I’m being honest.

I’ve seen multiple people at this point, usually responding to someone else’s post emphasizing how insidious Bear’s behavior is, talking about how “actually Bear was set up to fail!”, or “he could never have known the wish would work so it’s not his fault!”, or that “he never intended to hurt Nikki so he’s just as much of a victim as she is!”

And I think these sorts of reactions are really indicative of how we are taught societally to value men’s feelings and image over the safety and wellbeing of women.

There are people who see how Bear behaves initially, and empathize with him so deeply that they either ignore, or apparently just literally choose not to acknowledge the harmful choices that Bear actively makes throughout the film.

They see Bear ignore that Nikki is *very*.**CLEARLY** behaving erratically and NOT acting anything like herself, they see him choose to continue his “relationship” with Nikki after it becomes literally undeniable that she is not in control of herself, that she has lost her autonomy, and they’re able to excuse his behavior because they’re more willing to believe in the initial image they are shown of Bear, than they are to believe in Bear’s capacity to do horrific things.

In a previous post I talked about how Bear is not in love with Nikki, but is obsessed with the image of her he’s created in his head. For some audience members, it seems that they have done the same thing with Bear as a character.

They’ve fallen for the image of Bear they have in their heads after seeing him at the beginning of the film, and believe so strongly in that image that they can just ignore ALL of his wrong-doings and the ways in which he hurts Nikki.

What disturbs me about this is how much of an art-imitates-life/life-imitates-art situation this is.

The biggest most recent example I can think of is the Depp v. Heard trial. That was a clear, real-life example of society valuing the reputation and the public image of a very beloved man over his alleged* mistreatment of a woman (regardless of her being an “imperfect victim”).

There are countless more examples. I think of the People v. Turner case, and how there were people lamenting over the “loss” of a rapist’s “bright future” and how he had “such a promising career in swimming” or whatever the fuck.

Both tragically and horrifically, I could go on.

Fuck, the movie itself also touches on this in-universe with the character of Sarah. Sarah is aware of how Bear is taking advantage of Nikki, but due to her perception of him as a “nice guy” and due to her feelings for him, she’s convinced herself that Bear is the one being victimized by Nikki. The nice image she has of Bear blinds her to the horrific nature of his behavior, and this ultimately costs her her life.

In interviews writer/director Curry Barker has been very explicit about how Bear is the antagonist of the film and his behavior is inexcusable, but there are still people who are trying to interpret Bear as being a “good guy”, who are grasping at whatever straws they can to absolve Bear as a character.

Like. Someone replied to a comment I made on a video about Bear not knowing or loving the real Nikki and they actually said that Bear was trying to break through to the real Nikki with his inaction:

(Never mind that when Bear first called the service line he did NOT want to cancel the wish, only to alter it to make Nikki love him on his terms**)

It’s shocking to me that there are people who see what happens to Nikki, who see how she is treated by Bear throughout the film, who see what his actions lead to for his ENTIRE friend group, and STILL think Bear deserves to be defended in some way.

Anyway, that’s my new “very disturbing and deeply horrific thing Obsession has given me to mull over” this week.

Obsession is definitely going to be a cultural phenomenon for a long time and I think it’s largely because of how intensely disturbing it is on so many different levels. There are layers to this movie that speak very deeply to people’s fears surrounding autonomy, sexual assault and rape, and relationships. It’s about the objectification of women and abusive relationships, it’s about how personal perception distorts reality, how people are willing to ignore red flags if a situation benefits them, it’s about desire, about taking responsibility for your actions, about how the people you trust the most may hurt and betray you. This movie has everything.

Thanks, Curry Barker!

*because of the ruling of the defamation case I am putting “allegedly”. I can’t claim to ever know what Depp and Heard’s relationship was like, but I can’t ignore the fact that there was an indisputable power-imbalance between them in Depp’s favor.

**A point that was made on the very fun “Too Scary Didn’t Watch” podcast episode for Obsession—the hosts mentioned specifically that Bear calling the help line was upsetting to them because even after making his wish for Nikki to love him MORE THAN ANYONE, he’s still not satisfied and wants her to love him on his own terms—granted yes, her behavior was frightening, but it speaks more to how Bear, after literally stripping away Nikki’s autonomy and making her choice for her regarding her feelings towards him, he’s still not satisfied.