Jedao 2, D/s

he's more into bondage and masochism than he is into D/s proper or on it's own, but painplay definitely does/can him into subspace

it's one of those things that he mostly enjoys with like...The Right Person/Dynamic

if someone else isn't really into domming then he gets into his own head about being Humored and has a harder time enjoying it, and I don't think he's ever really had it without painplay

he would be really into it - kneeling, obeying, earning/being good, humiliation related Glove Stuff are all definitely buttons he has, but hasn't really explored because 'whip me until I'm high' is way easier to ask for

conversely he can absolutely get dom-y if he feels like his partner needs it

he would boss Eiffel around because it made him make the best noises; Zerxus is the one that high-key activates his prey drive

'oh this one NEEDS to get bossed around and hurt until he cries and I'm not waiting for anyone else to answer'

he's for sure a meaner dom than J1 tbh which is fascinating

feels vaguely related to J1 liking the idea of being a teacher but never being one for real, and being an officer for decades; whereas J2 has been an actual teacher way longer than he was a commander

Jedao and gender play

Jedao doesn't totally get Earth conceptions of gender; he enjoys experimenting with a little makeup and corsets just because they're pretty and fancy, but he doesn't associate them with women more then men

he's picked up a little bit by osmosis though and enjoys the occasional bit where he'll call Hakkai his wife instead of husband, or vice versa, but it doesn't have a huge emotional punch for him because ??

he genuinely feels like doing art and painting is more social-role-transgressive, because that's An Andan Thing and he's Not An Andan

he's also got a thing about wearing white, because that's the color of the long-declared-heretical faction of philosophers and ethicists, to whom he feels some professional loyalty

(interestingly, stuff like makeup and corsets he does also associate with the Andan to some degree, so it kind of circles back into genderplay on that level, but it's a weaker association)

J2, suspension?

hmmmm I think he'd feel a little silly with it at first, like...just self-conscious of his ability to float kind of negating it? so it wouldn't hit him as vulnerable/a power play the way it would most people

but if his partner told him he looked pretty like that he'd settle and enjoy it as like, a sensory and bondage thing

... you know, Jedao's positive response to Actual Communication has been so good for Hakkai

it's teaching him to actually just give the praise!

Talk to me about J2's hand fetish! and cuckolding for funsies

Also Kahl and primal play

J2 has a huge hand & glove fetish which is like, totally stereotypical for him lmao

Kel wear gloves all the time and only take them off for lovers or suicide missions

so even though other factions don't wear gloves, and he doesn't wear them often right now, he still very much processes being touched with or getting to touch bare hands as Probably Erotic

and hands are a key thing he notices on a man, and he really really likes receiving handjobs

somebody wearing gloves during sex would absolutely read to him as humiliation "you're not an equal/a lover worthy of honor, you're just a think for me to enjoy" and he'd be insanely into it

a dom who let him take their gloves after he'd Been Good Enough would blow his mind

and he does still have a bit of a ritual about giving Hakkai his own gloves to keep and care for while he's out with one of his lovers, because Hakkai holds his heart and his honor ;;

CUCKOLDING honestly he does not parse it as "erotic that HIS person is with someone else ooo", it's 100% voyeurism to him

he's shuos, the more eyes the better, watching is the position of power and being watched is the position of exposure/vulnerability

for him watching isn't even that kinky so much as like. fun and emotionally safe! little bit of gender euphoria

being watched feels very kinky to him and more like...intense, high-risk-high-reward kind of Fraught kink

he would have loved watching Hakkai and Eiffel together if they'd really had time to explore it - his two favorite beautiful people having so much fun and he gets to see the show!!!

he thinks watching Iago and CK would similarly be super beautiful and he might learn some other kink things lmao

Beautiful. Worldbuilding stuff affecting sexuality and gender expression is always so interesting

But yes, we definitely need to make this happen waningsunflower

Agreeeeeeeeed

i'm not a cuck i'm your FBI agent

KAHL is interesting because he's very...feels weird to apply a word like demi to him and I'm not sure it's totally accurate

it's less that he really needs intimacy for attraction and more that he's just really a late bloomer

but he's definitely...if not on the ace spectra then like....sex and romance are both very low priorities for him, emotionally & otherwise

he's only ever been attracted to one person and he did not realize it at the time

that said, there WAS a whole thing with an Island of Dr. Moreau port where he fell overboard and torture-mutilated his crush into being a razor-feathered bird thing and had a lot of feelings later about how Nokov should hurt him back but it was really beautiful ;;

so like. primal isn't NOT in there

tinwateringcan re: communication lmao, at a certain relationship level Jedao is truly 'validate me or i'll die'

meanwhile Hakkai's role in canon is "the guy who says things that are too emotionally intense and gets shut down by his more repressed buddies"

he appreciates being indulged

Hakkai: i want to carve my name on your ribs (oh no that was probably weird)

Jedao: already taking his pants off

Poor Hakkai so unhinged that all his not-very-hinged-themselves bffs consider him Sometimes Too Much.

(And it's never going to happen because of Reasons, but in an alternate universe, Sebastian could indulge that gloves kink something fierce.)

Jedao: i don't understand how nobody else has figured out that Hakkai is the perfect man but okay that's good for me I guess

CK would find the gloves thing genuinely fascinating.

it wouldn't hit as much with CK because he's so obviously Not A Soldier; from Iago it would hit hard

Oh, not necessarily to be the one to do it. But CK is interested in sexuality and kinks and enjoys learning what pushes people's buttons.