wash does actually turn to look at him, again. watching with some interest as he fiddles with the rope. its clearly a nervous gesture more than anything else, something to do with idle hands. there is a moment where it almost looks like he's going to reach out to take it from him -- but he relents, stays where he is, his body twisted around slightly where he's sitting to face pietro, now. ]
People [ and he is quite specific, he means people not just pietro ] find it difficult to let go as much as they want. The body, the mind, they might all give way before you really want it to. You can learn to lock down instincts, to control some aspects of it. But that comes with time, patience, practice -- and sometimes the point is that you want to give in to instinct. To not have to think.
Safeword means someone can scream, struggle, and say no. But I'll keep going until I hear a specific word, or see a signal.
[ pietro's smart enough to put things together to see how that applies to him, so wash won't be specific. purposeful, to give him -- plausible deniability. wash isn't lying, after all. he's not speaking to his specific experience with pietro and pietro alone, but to other people he's been with in the past. willing submissives or stubborn little shits, just like him or ten times worse, that deep down maybe wanted to be held down and used just as much as they wanted to bite his face off for even trying. but he could fight and thrash and spit in wash's face all he wants, and wash would be unrelenting -- until he genuinely wants it to stop. ]
Negotiations and hard limits are clarity, too. Without any lines, I have to be careful with everything I do. But a hard line means that as long as what I do isn't that, just about everything's possible. [ a shrug. a simplification: a level of care is always needed. but the tools enable things to go further. ] You don't have to know your limits yet. Most people don't. Running into them face-first and messily is sometimes the only way to find them.
[ a tip of his head. ]
You want to know mine?
[ there's some dryness in his tone, as he's very much expecting pietro to tell him off for being an old man giving a lecture, but the offer is genuine. pietro is clearly uncomfortable at the vulnerability of this, for him. he can offer some of his own. make it a little less one-sided. ]
no subject
wash does actually turn to look at him, again. watching with some interest as he fiddles with the rope. its clearly a nervous gesture more than anything else, something to do with idle hands. there is a moment where it almost looks like he's going to reach out to take it from him -- but he relents, stays where he is, his body twisted around slightly where he's sitting to face pietro, now. ]
People [ and he is quite specific, he means people not just pietro ] find it difficult to let go as much as they want. The body, the mind, they might all give way before you really want it to. You can learn to lock down instincts, to control some aspects of it. But that comes with time, patience, practice -- and sometimes the point is that you want to give in to instinct. To not have to think.
Safeword means someone can scream, struggle, and say no. But I'll keep going until I hear a specific word, or see a signal.
[ pietro's smart enough to put things together to see how that applies to him, so wash won't be specific. purposeful, to give him -- plausible deniability. wash isn't lying, after all. he's not speaking to his specific experience with pietro and pietro alone, but to other people he's been with in the past. willing submissives or stubborn little shits, just like him or ten times worse, that deep down maybe wanted to be held down and used just as much as they wanted to bite his face off for even trying. but he could fight and thrash and spit in wash's face all he wants, and wash would be unrelenting -- until he genuinely wants it to stop. ]
Negotiations and hard limits are clarity, too. Without any lines, I have to be careful with everything I do. But a hard line means that as long as what I do isn't that, just about everything's possible. [ a shrug. a simplification: a level of care is always needed. but the tools enable things to go further. ] You don't have to know your limits yet. Most people don't. Running into them face-first and messily is sometimes the only way to find them.
[ a tip of his head. ]
You want to know mine?
[ there's some dryness in his tone, as he's very much expecting pietro to tell him off for being an old man giving a lecture, but the offer is genuine. pietro is clearly uncomfortable at the vulnerability of this, for him. he can offer some of his own. make it a little less one-sided. ]