(Guy who thinks about this a lot voice) Hmm this is hard because I think you could make arguments for all of these but I guess āswitchā encapsulates my thoughts on this the most. I donāt disagree with him being uninterested, I think the sex he has with Sachiko is probably very vanilla and even if they were interested in a dynamic like that I imagine they wouldnāt act on it on account of being too repressed (at least Soichiro is. I donāt have as good of a grasp on Sachikoās character so idk but even if she was willing to entertain it I think sheās too... nice?? to push it with him any further than an offhand suggestion). I mean technically speaking this is probably the correct answer. However āļø like ninety percent of my thoughts on Soichiro and sex come from my thoughts on soichello and like. Thatās a dynamic that sort of requires sub Soichiro?? In the beginning at least. Like for anything to happen Mello needs to actively persue and coerce Soichiro into it in a way that forces him into a submissive role by default. And putting aside everything that makes this fucked up I think this works for him in a way?? Like heās usually good at following orders even if heās hesitant and I think that sort of lack of agency and control (or at least perceived lack of it) albeit humiliating I feel like alleviates some of his responsibility and I guess makes him feel ever so slightly less like a deranged evil pervert than being dominant would (because it would give him more (perceived) control and therefore make him (feel) more responsible for acting on it) (heād still feel terrible about it though obviously lol). (1/3)
HOWEVER āļø (x2 combo) dom Soichiro also just makes a lot of sense to me. Like I think if you could manage to convince him to try it heād be good at it... adhsfhghdj would it be messed up to use the mock execution as evidence for this. I just think that if he could pretend he was going to kill his son and then himself that convincingly then heād be awesome to roleplay with if you could get him to commit to it somehow. Heād be even more hesitant here but maybe you could speed it up if youāre a skilled enough ragebaiter?? He tends to sort of lash out and exert force when upset/angry (pulling a gun on Demegawa and threatening him when he wouldnāt comply in chapter twenty four, rushing over and gripping Lightās shoulders in chapter thirty four + doing the same to John McEnroe in chapter sixty, there are probably more or better examples but this is just off the top of my head) but that is a very spur of the moment thing so I guess youād have to push his buttons very strategically. Also heād feel even more terrible about it THOUGH I could see it being kind of satisfying in the moment (which would also make him feel even worse and so the cycle repeats) (honestly this is maybe my favourite. It is always morally correct to give Soichiro more to feel guilty over). (2/3)
So I guess basically: not something he actively considers normally (could stop here but thatās boring) ā> dynamic brought into play by someone very persistent, ends up taking on a more submissive role, hates it a little less than he feels he should (could also stop here) ā> sort of gets used to the dynamic, doesnāt necessarily feel CONFIDENT in taking the reins but absolutely can pretend to be if the other person, again, is really persistent about it. Also maybe hates it less than he should. And so I suppose all of this adds up to switch for me buttttt idk I think it just depends on the other person which I guess you could take in the other direction and vote uninterested but I do think itās fun if he is actually into it... he would maybe actually kill himself for real over it but thatās okay. Itās fun. (3/3) Oh my god okay Iāll shut up now I did not mean to write this much šš hit the character limit twice for this I had to move this to my drafts to type out the whole thing
@theoldworldsrunnerup i am dragging this true and real and beautiful argument out of the reply section for belated soichiro birthday purposes
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