Permissions/Anti Permissions Post
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tinybitmadFighting: Alec has absolutely no physical skills with which to defend himself. Wipe the floor with him. (Richard will take care of you later.)
Mind control, telepathy: Situational. Again, Alec has no actual immunities to this kind of attack, other than an extremely strong (and disagreeable) personality.
Sex: Alec is enthusiastically pansexual. He especially enjoys novelty, so go ahead and try to shock him.
Yes: Bondage, toys, forced oral, double penetration, rimming, sensory dep, temperature play, group play, slave play, hard and soft impact, dubcon, sharing partners, size play, manhandling, domination, submission, blood play.
Negotiable: Non-con, and anything else not explicitly stated her.
No: Vore, gore, scat, urine/watersports, menstruation, lactation, children/child play, infantalization, pregnancy, lactaion, furry, bestiality.
Anti-Permissions: Please read!
The short version is here:
Threads with Alec may include discussions of or references to triggering subjects, including:
Casual racism or classism
Child abuse
Mental illness, self-harm, and attempted suicide
Addiction
Rape
If there is a subject you don't wish Alec to discuss with your muse, or if you wish to avoid Alec entirely in-game, please let me know here. I will always do my best to keep potentially triggering material locked and cut, but I don't want to throw Alec at people who would rather avoid him.
The long version, or rather, why Alec is the way he is. (TW: Everything listed above, as well as Spoilers)
Alec comes from a time where women are essentially property, the lower classes are also essentially property, and anyone Other is classified as a savage. This leads to a lot of deeply ingrained racism, sexism, classism, and any other ism you can think of. While Alec himself does no share these believes (he's the closest thing to enlightened the series offers) he is a bastard. That means, if he finds out he can get a reaction with misogynistic comments or racial slurs, he will keep making them.
Alec suffers from mental illness and lack of treatment. Because his world has no diagnostic criteria, it's never clearly spelled out in canon. It's explicitly stated that he (and several other members of his family) suffers from depression, which he self-medicates and self-harms to alleviate. He has an addictive personality, which makes his attempts to self-medicate more destructive. He shows varying levels of addiction to drugs, alcohol, gambling, and sex throughout the series. Fanon theories have also suggested that he may be suffering from Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and some kind of Impulse Control disorder. Both books allude to a history of mental illness from both sides of his mother's family.
Canon explicitly states that Alec (and his sister) were neglected and beaten as children. It is also tacitly stated in Swordspoint that he was raped (as an adult) by Lord Horn. Privilege, especially, deals with Alec's thoughts on rape, arranged marriage, and child abuse, all of which he speaks out against and views as equal evils. However, while he takes a modern view on assault and abuse, he still uses problematic speech when discussing the subjects. For instance, at one point he refers to rape as 'sampling the wares before purchase,'. So even when Alec is operating with decent morals, he can still manage to be offensive and disgusting.
Mind control, telepathy: Situational. Again, Alec has no actual immunities to this kind of attack, other than an extremely strong (and disagreeable) personality.
Sex: Alec is enthusiastically pansexual. He especially enjoys novelty, so go ahead and try to shock him.
Yes: Bondage, toys, forced oral, double penetration, rimming, sensory dep, temperature play, group play, slave play, hard and soft impact, dubcon, sharing partners, size play, manhandling, domination, submission, blood play.
Negotiable: Non-con, and anything else not explicitly stated her.
No: Vore, gore, scat, urine/watersports, menstruation, lactation, children/child play, infantalization, pregnancy, lactaion, furry, bestiality.
Anti-Permissions: Please read!
The short version is here:
Threads with Alec may include discussions of or references to triggering subjects, including:
Casual racism or classism
Child abuse
Mental illness, self-harm, and attempted suicide
Addiction
Rape
If there is a subject you don't wish Alec to discuss with your muse, or if you wish to avoid Alec entirely in-game, please let me know here. I will always do my best to keep potentially triggering material locked and cut, but I don't want to throw Alec at people who would rather avoid him.
The long version, or rather, why Alec is the way he is. (TW: Everything listed above, as well as Spoilers)
Alec comes from a time where women are essentially property, the lower classes are also essentially property, and anyone Other is classified as a savage. This leads to a lot of deeply ingrained racism, sexism, classism, and any other ism you can think of. While Alec himself does no share these believes (he's the closest thing to enlightened the series offers) he is a bastard. That means, if he finds out he can get a reaction with misogynistic comments or racial slurs, he will keep making them.
Alec suffers from mental illness and lack of treatment. Because his world has no diagnostic criteria, it's never clearly spelled out in canon. It's explicitly stated that he (and several other members of his family) suffers from depression, which he self-medicates and self-harms to alleviate. He has an addictive personality, which makes his attempts to self-medicate more destructive. He shows varying levels of addiction to drugs, alcohol, gambling, and sex throughout the series. Fanon theories have also suggested that he may be suffering from Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and some kind of Impulse Control disorder. Both books allude to a history of mental illness from both sides of his mother's family.
Canon explicitly states that Alec (and his sister) were neglected and beaten as children. It is also tacitly stated in Swordspoint that he was raped (as an adult) by Lord Horn. Privilege, especially, deals with Alec's thoughts on rape, arranged marriage, and child abuse, all of which he speaks out against and views as equal evils. However, while he takes a modern view on assault and abuse, he still uses problematic speech when discussing the subjects. For instance, at one point he refers to rape as 'sampling the wares before purchase,'. So even when Alec is operating with decent morals, he can still manage to be offensive and disgusting.
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Date: 2013-05-03 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-03 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-15 03:33 am (UTC)Or he might just try to poison Alec's food.
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Date: 2013-05-15 08:00 pm (UTC)Actually, Alec is strangely protective of his own servants. He tends to address most of his vitriol to the people in power, so if he said anything about Riff, it would be in the wink-wink-we-know-better way.
...Which wouldn't stop him from saying it. And he's much more likely to make scathing remarks about Cain.
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Date: 2013-05-15 10:04 pm (UTC)If you want humiliation and degredation, though? Insulting Riff might be a good way to get him good and angry. Grinding Alec into the dirt because he'll never be half the man Riff is, etc.
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Date: 2013-05-16 12:25 pm (UTC)Dont worry, if there's a sore spot there, he'll find it. It's what he does.
and he's got his own riff.