Sorry was off this for so long ... these are such wonderful discussions, but I get days when I can't get online at all, or aonly long enough to download new e-mail. And I always want to make such long, complete answers here, too.
I sometimes think that Sanzo is afraid that if he lets himself go for an instant, he'll lose all his hard-won toughness and never get it back. (I went into it a little in my angsty Hakkai/Sanzo fic for the kink meme, Down Came the Rain.) Hakkai is easier for him because his own natural reserve doesn't impinge on Sanzo's boundaries as much. Goku and Gojyo are much tougher for him to withstand.
I guess I could deal with it in 585 if I were certain Hakkai wouldn't try it again. And I just went back and re-read it and wasn't qite as flipped out by it this time - it was probably my own mood as much as anything.
I still can't see Hakkai punishing Sanzo with anything but iciness and silence - you're right about that. He's very conscious of both Sanzo and Gojy as his saviors, but the relationship with Gojyo is intimate enough that I can almost see some of the Hakkai/Gojyo sex-as-punishment scenarios, even though I don't like them - Hakkai does get angry, and Gojyo will take abuse he shouldn't.
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Re: Smut and Sexuality (makes it easier to find ;D)
Date: 2008-05-26 04:20 am (UTC)Sorry was off this for so long ... these are such wonderful discussions, but I get days when I can't get online at all, or aonly long enough to download new e-mail. And I always want to make such long, complete answers here, too.
I sometimes think that Sanzo is afraid that if he lets himself go for an instant, he'll lose all his hard-won toughness and never get it back. (I went into it a little in my angsty Hakkai/Sanzo fic for the kink meme, Down Came the Rain.) Hakkai is easier for him because his own natural reserve doesn't impinge on Sanzo's boundaries as much. Goku and Gojyo are much tougher for him to withstand.
I guess I could deal with it in 585 if I were certain Hakkai wouldn't try it again. And I just went back and re-read it and wasn't qite as flipped out by it this time - it was probably my own mood as much as anything.
I still can't see Hakkai punishing Sanzo with anything but iciness and silence - you're right about that. He's very conscious of both Sanzo and Gojy as his saviors, but the relationship with Gojyo is intimate enough that I can almost see some of the Hakkai/Gojyo sex-as-punishment scenarios, even though I don't like them - Hakkai does get angry, and Gojyo will take abuse he shouldn't.