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Ivan is scrawny, scrappy, caught up in his own head. His main form of abuse is psychological and emotional before physicality comes into it directly. Its never a focus on sheer force with Ivan, its always through tools (the axe, emotional, housing situation) that he exerts will. Also semi-because Ivan believes himself incapable of direct acts and always projects those away from himself (Shadowed Ivan + The Tumor).

Andrew- while I guess by word-of-god is stated to be twink-ish, is commonly shown on the bigger end and that makes way more sense to me. He has a history of getting into fights and being hotheaded. It makes sense that once he escapes his parental-abuse situation, he’d want to move past that, he doesn’t have to prove himself anymore or do stupid things to get control of his life. He doesn’t want to be a stereotype, he doesn’t need to give people more reasons to hate him. And y’know Ivan saw him for more than all of that, Ivan saw him for a good kind person, and he stuck with Andrew through all of his worst. That matters a lot. Andrew didn’t need to worry about any of that assumption or expectation or pressure with Ivan.

And if you keep in mind that the story of “Bad Things” is already not the stereotypical abuse case (Not explicitly romantic, between two men, emotional before physical), the upheaval of predator to prey role feels natural. If you placed this in a real world scummy situation, you’d get people asking Andrew why didn’t he just fight back, because hes a wolf. Hes strong, he’s capable, he can be independent, why didn’t he just leave? And Ivan, scrawny, dependent, only a rabbit, can only be blamed for being allowed to do what he did.

Andrew felt safe, he was supposed to feel safe. There was a brief period where those two were together and happy before it got worse. There is no world where Andrew wanted to hurt Ivan more than out of frustration or retaliation or fear- because anything else, or even from those emotions, is proof he is a wolf. And everyone was right.