Alright, so usually in a Chucker ship the roles are kinda switchable. Church and Tucker arenāt really a permanent Dom or Sub and they switch off. In a Tuckington ship the roles can change from fan to fan. They can switch, or have a set role. Either way, youāve got three roles that are decently exercised in this relationship. Even in the few (very few actuallyā¦) Churchington ships Iāve read, theyāre more switches than set Dom or Sub
Now, thereās only been one Chuckington ship Iāve read and that was a smut fic, but still. In all of this however, Wash and Tucker would usually be the set Dom or Sub and Church is kinda set as the āmeh Iām too prideful to let that happen to me.ā
If you like him that way and wanna keep him that way then go ahead! You do you dudes- I donāt judge and itās not my place to tell you how to interpret a character- especially a fictional one.
But that also gives me the freedom to want an openly sub Church. Not quite the āstutter and be shy and cute in front of all our friendsā Sub. We still have our Church. The ālol I hate everything but not rllyā Church, just moreā¦ ātrustingā in relationships.
The reason I titled this Chuckington was because the idea for this post first came to me when thinking about the ship.
I see fics where Tucker is with Church and Wash and Church are fighting over him, or Tuckerās with Wash and theyāre still fighting over him, or everyone just wants to baby Wash because yes he should be babied he deserves all the cats and everything good in the world after all the shit heās been through.
Butā¦ Church has been through shit too. It doesnāt matter what AU you put him in, if you base it off even the general structure of the RvB plot, then Church has been through HELL. And from what Iāve seen (not necessarily whatās actually happened) itās gotten to a point where nobody even thinks to have him ask for the kind of love and support Wash and Tucker are willing to give to each other because heās so fucked up thereās no use in even trying. Not to mention his pride gets in the way. He may want nothing more than to bury his face into Washās chest and sob until he canāt feel his face anymore, but instead he just rolls his eyes and tells the other to fuck off and leave him alone. And Wash does. Because Church has convinced both his loverās and himself that he doesnāt need the same affection his partners show each other no matter how badly he craves it.
But people CRACK. And I can see it in some fics that Church wishes for MORE.
ā¦But heās not the one thatās hurting is he? He doesnāt wake up screaming from nightmares like Wash. He doesnāt have the stress that Tucker has about whether or not heāll get custody over his own kid.
Now Iām no psychiatrist, but I can tell you from experience that this mentality is pretty much a guaranteed downward spiral. What I donāt understand is why itās always just brushed off as another āChurch thingā which he never gets comfort for simply because he never asks for it.
Which is why I think having a Sub!Church is so important. I feel it gives him the chance to relax. Of course thatās not always an easy skill to learn, but I do think that after a while a Dom persona would be pretty hard to keep up. A glass bottle is strong, but keep pressurizing the liquid inside of it and itāll explode sooner or later.
And once heās learned itās safe to be a Sub then he can go back and forth whenever heād like. A permanent Dom or Sub Church really doesnāt fit with me. Because I feel that with Church, despite the way he acts and talk, he wants more love than heās letting on to. And he gives back thrice as much. Then it just makes sense for Tucker and Wash to be fighting for HIS attention XD
All these boys need love and protection. I just feel that some donāt get as much as they should.
