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I think Baelor is definitely very self-assured, which also translates into self-confidence in the bedroom. He does not second guess the things he does, and his aim with sex is always pleasure. As long as both him and his partner are having fun and feeling satisfied, then that is all that matters.

That being said, Baelor is def a dom. Like he is giving orders in the bedroom, or he is on top, or even if he's not on top, he's still giving orders when he is being ridden.

He's just an innate leader, it's in his bones, and he has grown up with authority in the palm of his hand, so he expects it in all aspects of his life, so I do not think it would be any different in the bedroom.

He is definitely an experienced lover. He gives me the vibes of someone who def had his fun when he was younger, and he never had issues finding a willing partner because he's handsome and confident and that's more than enough for a lot of people (AKA me...)

I don't know if I would describe him as very "free" because even though he is Dornish, he is also the crown prince of the seven kingdoms and hand of the king, and that comes with a certain amount of restraint, particularly a restraint built into your personality. So, I think in his youth he would have been a lot more free, but the Baelor we see in AKOTSK has grown a lot since then, has a lot more restraint, and I think younger Baelor is a very different person to DILF!Baelor.

I def think he's a munch. He will happily go down on reader, no questions asked, and I think he has a very methodical approach to it. Like he knows what makes reader feel good, and he is sticking to those things to make sure you always feel good in that scenario.

I def see him happy with pretty much any position for sex. Like he probably prefers simplicity because he cannot be putting too much thought into another thing in his life, especially a thing that is supposed to be fun and easy, but he's not very picky. Like, top 3 positions for him are missionary, doggy style/bent over, and reader riding him. He's a simple man.

If Baelor has time though, like let's say he's on vacay to Dorne or Summerhall or wherever a Targaryen goes for a vacay in Westeros, he is going multiple rounds. It's a little slow because he gives time to recover between rounds, but him and reader are spending hours in bed doing the deed in every position, just feeling each other and feeling the pleasure.

I think it probably subsided a little as he got older, but I def think he took/takes pride in seeing his lover very invested in sex with him, and very tired out and satisfied after sex with him.

Ok, I'll address the different readers I have paired him with so far and what I think their sex lives are like, because I would def characterise the situations a little differently for each of them.

Wife!reader from The Joust and Baelor are soft and sweet. She is not very experienced or confident, so he takes the reigns with everything. He initiates mostly (it's rare that she initiates but she's always happy to have him initiate) and then he's usually the one on top. I think they would just be quite slow and vanilla and enjoy it that way.

TMM!Baelor and Reader from The Marriage Mart are mostly classic as well. I think they have really intense and loving sex, like full-on eye contact as they moan into each other's mouths type shit. Again, she is very inexperienced and relies on him for a lot of guidance, so it is a lot of missionary. BUT for TMM!reader, I see her gaining a lot of confidence with Baelor. He hypes her up and she feels so safe and comfortable with him that I can def see her gaining confidence in the bedroom too. She rides him and lets him go down on her but I don't see much past that.

Ok, now is where it starts to get more intense. My niece!readers from these fics:

On My Knees, Begging Please (Baelor x Niece!reader)

On My Knees, Moaning Please (Baelor x Niece!reader P2)

Sorely Mistaken (Baelor x Niece!reader)

The Unrelenting Shadow (Baelor x Niece!reader)

Her and Baelor are getting friskyyyy. Niece!reader from on my knees is already playing with fire with Baelor. He loves seeing her on her knees, and she's promiscuous and confident enough to want to get dirty with him. They're being risky and having sex in his study all the time, going down on each other all the time, getting rough and rowdy. On My Knees!reader is also inexperienced (I try to have my reader be accurate to that era and I just always think of Daphne Bridgerton not knowing anything - ik she's not that era but still) but she's confident in herself and very willing to do whatever Baelor wants. I def see some spanking going on over there...

Sorely Mistaken!reader and Baelor are also getting nasty, but I think it's in a more fun and playful way. They're having giggly sex and just being all over each other, and maybe there's intense eye contact, but I don't necessarily see them getting toooo kinky (other than the incest lol...)

And finallyyyyy, my fav two freaks: D-I-L!reader and Baelor from Patience Testing (Baelor x Reader). These two menaces are down and dirty, and usually it's her fault.

I mean, what don't I see with them? I def think there's spanking, like Baelor putting her over his lap and smacking her ass to hell. I see a lil bit of choking, like hand on her throat as he fucks her over the desk and so on. I think I mentioned it in the fic itself but she is sucking his fingers like she's a dog with a chew toy. I def think they are being riskyyyy as well. Fucking in his study, in alcoves in hallways, a balcony at night??? the gardens at midday???

Like I can just imagine him pulling her into an alcove, slips the front of her dress up so he can have access, and just fingers her right there in the middle of the day, no questions asked.

I mean, there's a lot these two freaks would do. He's just obsessed with her and wants her in every way, and she's obsessed with him and wants him in every way. It's a not-match made in heaven.

Overall Fic Outlining Process:

Whenever I start a fic, I have a base idea and (usually) a list of scenes in my head that I want to happen (which is only a fraction of the final scenes, I'll give examples in Tab 2). Outlining the entire fic (mentally or in writing) is rare. Usually when I do write down an outline for a whole chapter/fic, it's for one of two reasons: 1) I'm trying to figure out the path to get the story/characters where I plan to go, or 2) I need to figure out the arrangement of scenes leading up to a scene I have in my head so I land on the correct POV for it (since I use alternating POV).

If I don't have a need for either of those, I don't outline the chapter, so I don't use outlines for every fic and I might not outline every chapter even within fics where I am using outlines.

For individual scenes, I will outline them as I think of them sometimes, but that's still only half of the time! The other half it stays in my head until I'm writing the final version on the page. I'll talk about this further down.

I do all my written outlining in Scrivener (or my phone to paste into Scrivener later if I'm on the go). I have a single Scrivener project I outline all my fics in. Each fic has a folder and inside it will have stub files for: 1) the title document where I brainstorm (Title = "Patchwork [Soulmarks AU]", 2) the fic notes (separate fic extra posts are nested underneath this file), 3) the backstory (if it's significant enough to have in writing instead of just my head AND separate from the title doc), 4) the overall (chapter-by-chapter) outline (if needed), 5) the timeline (if needed), 6) individual files for any scenes I've done a significant amount of outlining for, 7) a folder for any cut scenes (more on this in the Ellipsus doc!)

I have two stages of outlining:

Outlining/Planning Stage 1) Scattered notes for specific scenes and ideas

Every fic starts here and only expands into full outlining if needed. This is better described as brainstorming, but it does include outlining some scenes. It happens in the title file named after the fic - and in my head.

I start the title file with a rough summary of the fic universe/the base idea for the fic I had.

I throw all my ideas that I want to note down as they occur to me, using whitespace (3-5 blank lines) to separate each idea or chunk of scene outlines. I don't write down everything I've come up with, just things I want to remember.

I arrange the ideas roughly chronologically (it might change).

I delete each idea/outline after I have put it in the fic. Anything unused gets left in the file until I've decided I'm not going to use it. Sometimes I move ideas to other fics if I like them and think they could be applicable.

Examples: Patchwork

I don't have any of these saved anymore for anything I've posted, so here's some rough recreations from memory

Example rough summary:

Catra doesn't have a soulmark and she's fiercely jealous of anyone who could be Adora's soulmate, when glimmer first meets her she's like "who's this angry bitch" because catra is aggressive with her and then catra relaxes as soon as she sees her soulmark and glimmer's like oh the clowns are on parade alright I'll watch this show. Adora's mark is gold. colored soulmarks are really rare so it's supposed to mean she has a really special love with her soulmate. she doesn't understand how catra couldn't be hers but shes jealous of all of catra's girlfriends.

This is recreated to the best of my memory and I'm omitting two big spoiler sentences. I mostly remember the clown thing and (now non-canon) colored soulmarks stuff from my original fic summary.

Example story idea:

oh catra has a heat in this AU and fucks her way through the school during it trying to avoid her feelings

There's usually scene outlines scattered throughout this document, but specific examples of those are shown in Part 2 on Ellipsus. You can see how this file is mostly brainstorming. When I do outline a significant amount for a single scene, I'll give that scene its own stub document.

All my fics start with this kind of planning even when there's barely anything written down. Most of them stay here for the most part (except for adding more scene stubs). Any more in-depth outline is usually just in my head (which I'll cover later). Some fics do get a written chapter-by-chapter outline and move onto stage two, though.

Outlining Stage 2) Written Chapter-by-Chapter Outline

This is where that outline file actually gets used. I'll have chapter headings and write down a general outline for each, using one or both of these components (color-coded for clarity): 1) a rough list of the scenes and POVs with a few words/sentences describing each (purple below), or 2) a few sentence summary of the chapter's narative focus (blue below).

Example 1:

Chapter 8: [catra’s heat coming] [adora something] [brushies] [fuck]*

*this scene actually had its own outline, so I just wrote one word here as a placeholder and knew to switch to that scene's stub document when I reached it. The rest I mostly wrote off the cuff.

Example 2:

Chapter 3: exploring more about soulmates and ways they can blow up relationships with seamista. [catra reflecting on the difference for magicats in the past and going to cuddle adora for comfort] [adora waking up with catra in her arms] [catra hanging out with mermista and showing soulmates who had a bad first meeting and somehow still got together despite other dating people. An active example of soulmates pulling apart two more couples in front of her and shes crashing out about it. Catra asks if she ever would have gotten with sea hawk otherwise and mermista pauses and says yes. Catra is surprised and aodra looks even moreso. Yeah its shocking] [adora pov hanging out with mermista alone, asking why she lied. Mermista scoffs and plays it off but admits she knew catra needed her to say it. Adora feels so bad and thinks catra needs some who can just be there for her, sowing the seeds of their relationship later] [catra overhears]

Yes I'm preserving my typos for all of these.

Most fics that reach Stage 2 use just the first style. As I go through the outlined scenes/chapters, I'll strike out the parts I used and leave the ones I didn't so I know they're still available for use or need to be covered. How thorough the scene descriptions are ranges a lot. I start each scene's description with either the name of the POV character or their initial ("[C: adora has been acting weirdly]").

This is how 99% of my fics that get chapter-by-chapter outlines (which isn't all of them) are done, and usually I'll stop doing it at a certain point in the fic because I don't need to pace things out or am writing entirely off the cuff as I go. Sometimes, however, I'm handling a more complicated story, and I need to tackle it a different way. This where I use a third method:

3) Arc Coordination

I almost never use this style and it's extremely difficult to convey since it's situational, so I'll be brief with it. This is where I have to thoroughly break down ideas. Individual story arcs will get their own file, I'll think through what I need to get where I'm going and approach each problem individually, and then mentally work back and find how they connect.

This is the style I used for In The Great Beyond. I had a file breaking down the Crucible arc, the Primavera arc, etc, and I don't think I even compiled it into one overarching outline, but I knew how they interconnected. I had to break down CotC too, but that was far enough back I only remember I had multiple files for outlining. The focus for this is not scene-by-scene outlining, though, it's for the entire story arc. My understanding is that this is, uh, what people usually consider outlining to actually be? And I almost never use it, lol. I mean I almost never utilize a written outline beyond individual scenes, but this my general outlining process.

Okay, that's it for big overview outlines. Let get to the map in my head and specific scenes!

Going From Mental Outline to Written Fic:

My mental outline for a fic, whether or not I have a written one, consists of a list of scene ideas and a loose order for them. I'm calling each of these scenes waypoints to make describing this easier.

For Patchwork, I think I had like… 4-5 prior to writing Ch1 (in the final fic, these were placed spanning from Ch3 to Ch11). Yeah, there's a reason I always underestimate the length of my fics. The amount of scene ideas I have vary a lot by the fic, but they're usually sparse and more fill in as I write.

As I reach each chapter, I mentally map out a general flow of the things that need to happen to get to the next waypoint on my outline. That might not mean mapping specific scenes, but rather figuring out how much time needs to pass and what character realizations need to happen to get to that waypoint, and then I'll write those one scene at a time.

Waypoints:

Waypoints are scene ideas that I'm working towards. They're ideas I've known I wanted to do for at least a few chapters in advance. A lot of the time, I don't actually write these down. The scene comes to me in a maladaptive daydream and I watch it, like the idea, and either build a fic around it or add it to the existing mental outline (depending what stage it's at).

While plotting/daydreaming, I might come up with multiple waypoints at the same point in a fic that conflict - a scene results in them not talking for weeks in one waypoint, and it results in them getting together in the other. Usually I pick the version that leads to plot progression and character growth lol. It's not unusual for me to picture a waypoint multiple times, each one a bit different, but it's all a refinement process, and a way for me to get dead-end story ideas out of my system by the time I'm actually writing it.

For people who have followed me a loooooong time, you might remember I used to talk about the concept of The Scene™️. The Scene™️ is a waypoint, specifically the most intriguing one(s) to me that made me go, "I want to write that fic", and that kept me excited and motivated as I worked.

I use written chapter-by-chapter outlines to figure out what scene arrangements I need to reach my mental waypoints, so you usually wouldn't even know the waypoint existed from looking at my notes until I'm ironing out its chapter in prepartion for writing it.

While waypoints may not be on the chapter-by-chapter outline until the last minute, sometimes I do have the waypoints outlined (usually just partially) on a scene level, though this will vary a lot (for Patchwork I had only two outlined as an individual scene), and sometimes the outlining I have written down does nothing to convey the waypoint's plot beat because it's just a snippet of its dialogue.

Individual Scene Outlines:

When I outline a scene, 99% of the time I don't outline it start-to-finish. Usually I'm writing a middle chunk of the scene, or just the start of it, and I flesh out the rest of it when I get to actually writing it in the fic.

For scenes I outline ahead of time, they're usually skeleton outlines, just containing the dialogue, a few "action tags", and occasional sentences from the internal monologue (examples later). I write these on my computer and on my phone. I pictured the whole scene in my head, but I know there will be changes by the time I write it, so I don't try to fully write a scene outside of chronological order. I'll do this

Since I don't write ahead, usually fleshed-out outlines only happen for the very next/current scene I'm writing. These are almost exclusively written on my phone when I'm supposed to have stopped writing (usually to sleep) but the ideas wouldn't stop. They might have 20-70% of the text in the written version of the scene before editing.

Regardless of how fleshed out the outline is, it's pretty common for me to keep mentally writing - and thus outlining some on my phone - scenes after I finish writing for the night, and I'll flesh them out into full scenes in the morning.