#rolukas

i did a little dibble-dabble and wrote a few paragraphs but broke ‘em up into bullet points for different points and topics kinda! s4 roman is one of my fav psychological anomalies so i love talking about that freak in his darkest moments🤗🩶i have sfw (semi explicit but nothing actually happens) and then nsfw below!

SFW tidbits

⌖ i like the idea of you and roman in s4 being in a very tumultuous state. i imagine with the s3 finale, you help tom out a little, and therefore kind of betray the roy sibs to get a leg-up in the corporate atmosphere and garner logan’s attention — but also because the sibs didn’t have a fool-proof plan, and it’s the smart option to cover your ass and side with the whole ‘tom not going to jail’ and ‘logan staying right where the fuck he’s always been’ angle. so in s4, roman probably would be very forgiving of that one betrayal, but feel a little less bad about using you as an asset with mencken and/or matsson.

⌖ it’d be almost like sex work without the explicit sex. mencken calls roman to tell you two to come over — you, and roman. specifically ask for you to tag along. targets you, teases you, tries to trip you up on your words and arguments refuting his objectively cruel political rhetoric and how he believes it leads to a more ‘peaceful’, whitewashed, beige future.

⌖ mencken likes that you put up a fight, and he likes when you look all doe-eyed and hopeful about the world. maybe even asks roman to leave you alone with him, to talk — which is all that happens, but he gets too close, so close you consider shouting out for roman to come back, just in case. not that he’d save you from your discomfort (unless something really happened).

⌖ lukas is more of a direct guy. alexander skårsgard mentioned that when he was walking barefoot across the airfield to shiv’s private jet, he chose to wear what he wore, act how he acted, because it’s in direct opposition to the roy family brand. that is, he’s cosplaying normal, casual, carefree rather than the corporate stilt, power suits and luxurious, bland interior design (e.g., him insulting shiv’s jet interior, practically saying it’s boring).

⌖ he’d use you as entertainment, similar to mencken but not quite the same. instead of liking the nippy fighter style, i think he’d just enjoy your perspective. you’re not a billionaire by birth, you’re from a different world than both the roys and himself. he’s weird, he likes weird. the guy sends frozen blocks of his own blood and enjoys failure, he’s interested in most stuff he can’t predict, or get a good grip on.

⌖ i see him taunting you just a little, watching you follow roman along to meetings and asking, “What’s your opinion. You — follow along, to all of these meetings, you’ve heard everything they have. Do you…not have one?” he’d laugh a little. “Come on. All friends here. Right? Friends with incentive to steal each other’s money. Sell me!”

⌖ roman lets it all happen. worst part is, he doesn’t save you, doesn’t deflect the attention from you to the executives like he normally would. you’d get home after a long day of feeling like a ball of yarn between two catnip-fueled kittens and he’d just roll you back up and throw you back out to them the next morning. it would feel like he’s trying to be a new version of his dad, using leverages, but worse.

⌖ he’s trying to play papa in season 4 — be like logan — but it doesn’t really work, because he has the gut instinct but doesn’t have the balls to refuse his siblings or make decisions by himself (e.g., him wanting to pass on PGM due to the 10B cost and his plans to start The Hundred instead — fresh and new — but caving because his siblings wanted tom and logan to take a hit). but with you, he doesn’t feel so bad about letting you be tossed around by potential business partners, almost like loaning you out to gain their trust, respect, loyalty.

NSFW

⌖ it seeps into your personal life with him. you ride him and he’s sad, he’s manic, he’s trying to fix up quickies in closets in his father’s house and random places, trying to almost guilt you into sucking his dick until the minute you show you’re not interested, even playfully. then he’s all frazzled and fucked up, breathy, freaking out, unlike himself. sometimes you make comments that you could fuck mencken or matsson if you wanted. sometimes it makes him like it more, sometimes he completely detaches; needs a strong hand tugging him down on the bed to take a nap, receive a kiss, give a hug.

⌖ there’s a deleted scene in season 4 with tabitha (rest in manhattan) that i think really shows roman’s sexuality in the few days leading up to his father’s funeral. she presses a bit — emotionally — and he asks in a wholly immature way, to do the naughty thing grown-ups do or something. they kind of technically fuck, but she mentions by the end that she’s not sure it counts since neither of them came, but it’s progress. i think he avoids the whole ‘my dad is dead and i’m a sort of interim arranged co-ceo’ schtick (and all of the other bad, horrible shit happening) by trying to get off. deflecting via sexual provocation.

⌖ which, on that note. i think he gets freakier. sort of like when your mind is so fucked that it fucks up your body along with it, so you have to dig deeper and deeper to get off and get some good hormones flowing. he makes it hurt more and not just — letting you talk shit, or bring the idea of lukas and mencken into your private “love-making” (he’s still a romantic, so of course despite the cringe, he calls it that).

⌖ he leaves more often afterwards. a good session — a lot of bad stuff said, a lot of ideas being passed back and forth before and during, a lot of ‘he said, she said’ about both how much people are starting to see you as a slut, and how revolting it is that he’s just sitting back and letting better men be seen with you in that way. a lot of gross ideas about what they want to do with you, what they would if they could — and they probably, kind of, can to an extent. he’ll get off, whatever, and sort of retract, go to the ensuite bathroom, take a beat to get it together, wash his face, hold back from freaking out. he needs no-touchy time on occasion.

⌖ also thinking about how casually roman refers to willa as ‘whore’ in season one — ‘that’s his whore’, as if that’s a normal thing to say, as if he’s saying ‘that’s his new pet, she’s a labrador’. as if the roys just happen to have whores, the way average people have pets.

⌖ at first it’s a joke, and no one else can say it — just the two of you. “Yeah, brought my little whore along for the ride. Didn’t wanna leave her home alone, she’d trash my room again trying to find her toys. Mmmright, honey?” he’d giggle out, cooing mockingly, wrapping an arm around your shoulders and giving a sloppy, wet kiss to your temple. then it spreads to tom, who sort of looks oddly on, but not surprised? kind of like he did when connor said roman was threatening to tell the psychiatrist he tried to molest him. “…and did you?”, except sort of like, “oh. oh!”

⌖ it spreads to shiv, who is quippy and kind of flirtatious, which makes roman even more upset and mean. she asks where her brother’s dog is — ha, how funny he has a dog, who would’ve thought? even a worm will turn. ken tries to calm her down because he knows rome will make it harder on you in the end, but he’s entertained — ro calls it out. “What are you acting like Mother Teresa for? We know you’re just gonna whip your dick out from all this — tension. You’re just trying to act nice. Show-man.”

⌖ the whole schtick lasts most prominently between the few days he gets back with his siblings, really gets bad as soon as his dad dies, and kinda fades slowly after the funeral. but in those few days after his dad dies and before the funeral, when he’s so busy and fucking around with all the big shit, he feels all too privileged to do whatever. just grabbing you and making you walk to the bathroom in front of him, maybe election night in tom and shiv’s own home, and pulls down your slacks, or your hose, no prep. pushing you down to the ground maybe, shoving you all the way down. someone knocking on the bathroom door just hearing you yelp and try to pull back — he shoves your head back down and just, “Uh — occupied! What, you got something to say? You wanna talk? Noooo, no-no. I don’t think you’re really in the right state of mind. You’re kind in the cocked-up state of mind, literally.”