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Because this is stuck in my brain (and because a more complicated dynamic is something my mind craves in stories and so hyper-focuses on for ideas, which means I’ve thought about this a lot), let me point out a more mild example than most presented: the hyper competent assistant.

It’s something you see all the time in normal media, where the (usually male) executive is really, really good at something, but is correspondingly bad at everything else. He’s a genius at building, or investing, or whatnot… but that genius that flung him into leadership didn’t equip him to actually lead, at least in the day to day minutia of a company.

And that’s where the assistant comes in: usually female, she is good at what she does, and from the chaos her boss creates, she imposes order. She gets everyone payed, she sets the scheduled, she communicates with… at times, literally everyone.

(The ur-example of this being Tony Stark and Pepper Potts’s dynamic, for the record)

All of this is to say, while this topic was originally about size/power not not meaning your in charge, this post about how being in charge doesn’t mean you’re in charge. Because, sure, The Big Boss may direct the whole organization, and be the only reason it’s around, but the assistant is the one actually runs it. Depending on the boss, she may be the one arranging his schedule, setting up his meetings, determining what papers or proposals he looks at or does not, and in doing so is controlling what he does and how he acts.

And this isn’t just a modern, ‘leader of a company’ thing. Let’s say a knight is promoted to a lord for some great deed, for example, killing a dragon (which could help bring size back into this scenario, since I drifted away for awhile). Well… he’s a knight. He knows how to fight, to kill; the fuck does he know about how to run a territory? Problem is, ignorant or not, he is in charge of it now, and all the people who live there, and if anything goes wrong it will be his fault.

Cue the assistant: a competent maid, a low ranking noble trained for management, or a fallen high ranking noble, perhaps someone who was meant to rule the very land he now ‘runs’. She knows how to do things, what needs to happen; she knows the people, and they know her. The knight? He’s a big guy who can kill a really big lizard. Scary, and they respect his ability to fight things, sure, but not him a leader. And so he’s forced to turn to her for guidance, and through that, she gains control… with suggestions at first. But over time? Her suggestions could easily become commands:

‘You do it like this’, and, ‘May I suggest you wear this’ becomes ‘Do this’, and ‘Wear this’, and a dynamic where she constantly belittles him for being helpless (or, ‘helpless’, depending), and how he should just leave everything to her; she’ll take care of it. Just listen to her, trust her, and everything will turn out fine.

Some other ideas: the lab experiment. Giant is being held by military or secret lab, and is trapped by their captors, lead scientist or whatever is a woman. She controls so much of his life he controls him, even if she’s achingly careful about how dangerous he is.

Relatedly, a setting where a giant is, defacto, treated as a sub-human, and has a boss or supervisor in charge of him. There’s little no no actual controls over him, but he has to obey anyways because she’s in charge.

And, something expanded from one of my earlier ideas, a relationship built off a previous relationship a couple had before they grew/shrunk, where the man is more passive and the woman more dominating or controlling. And she shrunk, or he grew (or both), perhaps slowly over time, and they just… kept to that dynamic. Maybe she needs to placed on the table, but she’s the one with the finances on lock and a better picture on what needs to be done, and the fact she needs to keep directing him so much helps cement a sense of ‘being in charge’ in place.

Maybe he can casually lift a car, but she has to be the one do so much of the normal stuff because he’s too big to, so he’s having to sit and wait somewhere (where he can’t break anything important) while she does all the important adult things, goes out into the town or whatever, and basiclly just had a life with friends and stuff, which leads them both to get a sense that he’s useless or too destructive, and just gives him the sort of dynamic of a big, dangerous pet rather than a human being.

The question here, I think, depends on the (theoretical) person: who are they? What are they into? How much are they even aware of it? How brave are they?

I’m not into the tiny end, but I’ve heard enough from the tiny section to know they’ve gotten into for reasons that range from ‘wanting to explore big things while small’ to ‘wanting to understand their dolls’. Sometimes they want to be taken care of, like a favored doll, sometimes they want to be used like a doll. Maybe they just like big guys and didn’t realize just how big they liked them.

So much of this kind of thing is personalized that the reaction is going to depend on that perspective, how much they’ve thought of it (someone into it, who has thought about being shrunk, is going to take being shrunk a lot better than someone who didn’t realize they were into it, and that fact implies they’ve fantasized about it, maybe done some research on the internet…), so ultimately, you either need to make a reaction around a character and how she would act (someone proud of their authority or power, for example, would take being shrunk badly at first even if they were into it), or figure out how you want her to act, and build her personality/background around that reaction.

@Nyx
One of my older ideas is a princess and her long-suffering knight. Maybe there’s some romantic tension, but mostly it’s him going, ‘Yes, your highness’ while he follows her around and whatnot, with some teasing on her end.

Portal pops up, knight is all valiant, maybe some kind of bloodline… and the princess and the knight come out the other end, nowhere they’ve ever heard of, or any idea how to figure out where they are compared to where they used to live…

And Sir Knight is now sixty feet tall. And naked, because clothes don’t really fit after massive growth spirts.

The princess promptly starts ordering him around like normal, and when they find native cities, tell him to conquer them in her name. If she can’t have her old empire, she’ll just make a new one! His response?

"Yes, your highness.’

I’ve seen a few stories on this topic, but the easiest way is just… the giant is just into that. Maybe it’s actually a healthy relation with boundaries and stuff, maybe the tiny would be abusive in any other context but the giant just can’t view her as a threat…

Hell. You could make a scenario where the big is just going, ‘you choose’, over and over, forcing her to make (big) decisions until she’s used to taking charge.

At the moment, I’ve been pondering an idea around that kind of concept, where the giant is big and strong and has a lot of powers and shit, but just… is really lazy. Like. The motivation is ‘nap’ more often than not. The tiny he likes, though, has ideas, so he keeps getting her toys to play with on demand, and helps her take revenge and shit.

Beyond that, I’m fond of the ‘sealed evil’ kind of idea: giant is a sealed (dragon, god, demon, war machine, etc), who the tiny accidently springs loose. Thankfully for her, though, she also gets rights to the collar he’s stuck with, and so gets to command him. That kind thing generally dissolves into, ‘I’m waiting for you to fuck up so I can make you suffer for it’, balanced against, ‘I’ll make you actually admit (as opposed to magic forcing) my worth’, or some such.

@Olo
I think they like boobs too much to not have the giant feature them.

Which. Is understandable. Honestly I’m just grateful that this super great artist, at least, is sw focused for once.

@Olo
Eskoz is great; they release maybe four videos a year, but they’re free and always great, and pretty much always F/f. There’s few F/m, but it’s usually as a variation on a theme kind of thing. I highly recommend looking at more of their stuff.

@tiny-ivy
Alternatively? Flip the script.

You are into this being tiny thing. You love being in Brodigan or whatever. You are, perhaps, unhealthily into it… and it concerns your giant owner. That is, in fact, the reason why she picked up in the first place: you were running full tilt towards the nearest person you could find, never mind things like cars or stomping feet.

She knows that madness would only get worse if you finally meet her boyfriend, and she’s deeply worried about your increasingly determined escape attempts. She’s slowly escalating her efforts to keep you safe in her room, without just locking you in a box or something, because she’s nice like that, and meanwhile the boyfriend is starting to notice her efforts and increased worries.

But consider this: what if the woman has the SW, from her days of stomping around Lilliput or whatever, and she’s trying to hide you from her man?

I mean, you’re hardly the only one; I know there’s that one big fetish author who seems to specialize in that kind of thing, though they seem to prefer futanaris.

I think it probably comes from the implicit smallness of it, that the person is so damn small that you can drown them in sex, along with… how to I put this? How… gang-rape-y it can be, where you can also just outnumber them, and so casually?

Plus, what probably boils down to something like dehumanization as well.

I like it as part of a wider view kind of thing, where you zoom in on a small part of what the bigger person is doing, and that implicit smallness it brings, rather than just the sperm; that bigger picture really makes those for me.

I mean, if you’re losing your SWs because they bit you, I just gotta shake my head a little, just saying.

Anyways, if you’re trying to avoid that, a simple way is to position your hand under their head so they…, you know, can’t. Depending on the size and how gentle you want to be (the smaller they get, the more difficult it is to grab your SWs safely, though after a certain point they can no longer even cause minor pain with a bite), you can either have a finger directly under their jaw (which would also keep them from talking, if you’re into that), or just have the top of your hand end up near the neck area; that way, they won’t be able to bend their head down enough to take a nip.

…The fact this means you are firmly grasping their chest is, of course, completely unrelated to this advice.

@SmolChlo
Of course, that’s a dangerous game, because most things with yanderes end with the person noticing they’re being obsessed over… and the giant is the one holding the cards. You need to balance your stick usage with your carrots, otherwise your giant horse is going to walk off to do whatever he wants, with you stuck for the ride whether you like it or not.

…

‘You’re saddled up; there’s no recourse
It’s, “Hi-yo, silver!”
Signed: Bad Horse.’

I never thought Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog would feel topical to SWs, lol.

@Olo
“Where are you going? Are just going to leave me here, trapped on this table? I thought you were going to protect me. Don’t you love me?”

@littlest-lily
A lot of gentle SW scenarios, where the SW is a stranger, is often built around something like Nightingale Syndrome, where they devote time to caring for them and get attached, and the SW in turn gets used to being cared for and grows attached in turn.

Rather than her being nuts right away… you could play it as a sort of… slide, since he is her world, honestly. Food? Water? Safety? Comfort? All of them come from the Friendly Giant. It becomes common sense for her to rely on him for everything, to call him for every worry. At the same time, the fact she has nothing else, no real way to spend her time, no others to talk to (or, if there’s other SWs, they’re only competition for the FG’s time), the fact that the FG has other options than her grates at her, even as the sheer helplessness of her situation eats away at her sanity; people aren’t made to be so helpless, after all.

And so, more and more, she demands more and more from the Friendly Giant, growing slowly crueler and more abusive, until on some level she starts thinking that she owns him, and isn’t afraid to throw a fit if he breaks that world view.

@Olo
The SW sneaking into your clothes, into your bags, into your food, constantly stalking you, but she’s on you; no privacy in your home, no matter how hard you try. Threatening to reveal herself to friends and claim abuse unless you spoil her constantly.