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anonymous · 11mo

idk if I would equate being infantilized and submissive as the same? Takedown is good example of that or at least I have thought Jungkook being young but not inexperienced in a way that is more or less common in age gap fics is a conscious choice from your part.

no you're very right, i could've made a better word choice there! and you're also right that with takedown i did make a conscious decision to write jungkook with as much agency as i could, like he's not sexually inexperienced and he's very assertive in a way that i don't think is typical for the trope. i do sometimes wonder if i'm tricking people with takedown lmao, bc i'm writing this trope that i think people will probably click on looking for like, domineering aggressive older man namjoon and innocent nubile twink jk and then i'm... not delivering that! but i knew what i wanted out of it, and what i wanted is a jungkook who has all that hero worship and sort of desire to be consumed and dominated by a partner, but also has a really strong sense of self. i'm not sure if it comes through in the fic itself, but i tried to put in some hints earlier on that like, what jungkook had fantasized about and wanted from the relationship before he actually met namjoon was kind of more of what you might typically envision from the age gap trope. like he does kinda wish he were the innocent nubile twink who gets to be ravished and swept off his feet, but then it turns out namjoon's too considerate and gentle-natured to be that big strong alpha guy he'd fantasized about him being, and jungkook's also too stubborn and strong-willed for them to actually have that dynamic. and even though takedown is fictional, those characterizations are also closer to like, how i see them as people. i don't think they fit very well into those neat little boxes.

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