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@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.

(It occurs to me that a bunch of people who don’t consume anime/manga might not know what yandere is… (oops on that last topic with it), so for a brief explanation: a yandere is a deeply possessive person who is ‘in love’ with someone, to the point of obsession, where they will actively do things to ruin their love interests life, isolate them from friends/family, kill off love interest, try to take away their independence by both physical, financial, and psychological means (lots and lots of gas lighting), all in the name of keeping the love interest theirs and only theirs. While the term itself is japanese, the idea clearly applies to stalkers seen in horror movies and crime dramas you’d see anywhere.)

Something I’ve realized is that yandere is a concept that is built of similar dynamics to size content: it’s about obtaining control over another person, by either gaining more power directly or, more often, taking away their power, thus leaving them either dependant on you or unable to resist you in a meaningful way. For obvious reasons, then, this is something that comes up with GTS, and to a lesser extent, GTs. But i’ve been wondering; how would a yandere sw work?

To a certain extent, for a GT/f relationship, the normal sized person is actually going to have some soft power over the bigger one because, no matter what most GTS stories seem to think, turning giant isn’t a magic ‘I Win’ button. Even assuming the military just doesn’t blow their ass up with some missiles if they go on a rampage, either because they’re accepted for some reason, or they have something else to explain why the military can’t pose a reasonable threat… society isn’t made for a giant person, and we are deeply dependant on society for a lot of things.

There’s no clothes, obviously, but there’s also no food, no shelter, no good place to use the bathroom… and while those, also, can be explained by a magical kind of biology… what about TV? Cell phones? A soft bed? All those modern luxuries we’ve all grown to enjoy? There’s a whole world of modern civilization that a giant can’t really access… but a normal person could. That’s something to hold over them, and considering how stuff like email and social media works and how a giant couldn’t even use a keyboard, easily control what they’d learn about.

Beyond that, I’ve been rolling around the idea of a rich normal person patroning a giant, and her wealth being the only reason they have, like, a bed. And good food. And clothes. And that being a sort of de facto tool to keep the giant under their control, because where else are you going to get underwear for the seventy foot man? Not from your old, normal ex, that’s for sure!

But it’s different with SW, because the ‘giant’ here is the normal one; they are the ones with control over the tools of civilization, they are the one with the technological and financial advantages.

I mean, you could jokingly do it with the guy just kind of ignoring their crazy because of how little (ha) he thinks of her, letting her hump his leg or finger whenever she gets in the mood and not really reacting to it, and just kind of flicking them away when they’re annoying, but that seems… a waste of the idea. Unless you make the SW the breadwinner/rich person (which is possible), I think the only way to do it is emotional manipulation. An sw constantly preying on their giant’s emotions; stuff like, ‘I’m afraid, don’t leave me alone!’, or, ‘don’t be so cruel to me’, ‘you can’t abandon me like this’, or maybe even, ‘you did this to me, so you need to take care of me now’, probably mixed with some hard-core seduction.

It’d be entirely dependant, in other words, on the guy putting up with the abusive tendencies, where in any other format there’s an actual danger the woman can pose, or threat they can use, to back up their crazy.

Any thoughts on this, or ideas?

@Nyx
Consistency like that is hard when we don’t have any good context for that in real life; even big animals are on all fours or the like. Artists, or hell, writers, don’t have a frame of reference for, ‘this is fifty feet tall, here’s what all the smaller bits would be’.

Even small it’s difficult, and at least then there’s stuff like Barbie to give a vague idea, but giant? Nothing.

I mean, while as in general I like the idea, in practice I’m pretty burned on F/m content, so if I was to write it, I wouldn’t want to do that, either.

There’s a couple of ways I think could get around it (well, outside of it being F/f, which while I’d like more for obvious reasons, probably isn’t what you’re going for): the first is simply… skipping over the F/m parts. Start after the guy is giant again, or as he’s grown back, and feed the SM backstory organically as they interact; Missletowe, back in the old forums, had a story done in that fashion, but that was a pure revenge trip where the guy had been abused until the shrinking machine got fucked up by lightning and flipped the script on his captors (one of who shrunk to nothing).

The other way is… well, don’t have the interaction at all. The guy is a little statue, or something: can’t move, can’t talk, but he can perceive the world around him, to some extent. It works really well in a magic setting, because then the woman thinks he’s a fairy or something, which is something she could naturally expect rather than him being something bigger and just compacted, and she coos over the ‘little guy’ all the time while trying to get him free, and giving him a good impression from his eternal prison… and then when she finally releases him, the giant demon lord sealed away millennia ago, or whatever, pops out, completely unexpected on her part, with neither of them having properly interacted before, but both with positive impressions of the other.

@Olo
Honestly, I feel like I never quite got over the guilt complex the U.S. slaps on everything sexual, so I have both of those things warring for dominance in me whenever this kind of idea comes up, even if intellectually I… kinda know better?

@Olo
I mean… yeah. That is the assumption. That you like it, so you want it, deep down. The fact that you, say, want to keep a woman as a pet, wearing only a dog collar, is the kind of thing that naturally breeds suspicion in people.

Theoretically? Maybe.

In practice? Far too much of it is tied up with oppression, basiclly. Giant women oppress tiny men (apparently, generally desired by men), while giant men oppress tiny women.

The thing is, GTS is acceptable, which is probably why most size content you see in commercials and the like is GTS, but GT/sw gets far too close to a lot of social issues to be acceptable.

Though, there’s also the fact that being openly furry in public is… easier, for lack of a better word. All you need to do is wear an (apparently expensive) suit to be a furry. If you want to be an SW, what are you going to do; wear a giant hand around you? If you’re a giant, do you need to attach Hot Wheels or tiny buildings to your shoes?

@SmolChlo
Bold words for someone who so very shaped like food.

@SmolChlo
…So you’re saying I get to eat you… again? Because SW ghosts sounds like calorie free meals to me.

@SmolChlo
Me? Scary? Never! Why, I’ve never scared anyone in my life, I’ll have you know!

Oh, I’ve startled my far share, of course, but it’s not my fault; I"m just a lot lighter on my feet that people would expect of man my size, that’s all. There’s nothing wrong with that.

Is that what you’ve been telling your friends? That I’m scary? Slander! I insist you invite a few of them over, just so I can undo the damage you’ve done to my reputation! We’ll have a nice chat, some drinks, and then they’ll see there’s nothing scary about me at all.

…By the way, how do your friends feel about Chinese? It’s just- I’ve recently discovered Mongolian Chicken, and I love it, I really do. I’ve found that there’s a bit too many peppers in the restaurants nearby for my taste, though, so I found a recipe I’ve been wanting to try. I’m not a great cook, don’t get me wrong, but I have cooked a mean dish or two in my time, and it’s a pretty simple recipe, really; I’m not sure how I could mess it up! And from what I’ve seen, it’s not just good with chicken. In fact, it seems to go well with just about anything!

Don’t worry. I’m sure your friends will love it.

@SmolChlo
Ooh, sorry, sweetie. I’m sure you’re funny, I really am, but you see the problem isn’t that I’m bored, but that I’m hungry.

…Hmm. I wonder. Do you have any friends? …Or enemies?

@SmolChlo
Oh, I’ll be getting my sprinkles one way or another, I think.

@SmolChlo
Let’s put you to bed, young lady.
puts you on a flat cupcake
And here’s your blanket.
covers your body in frosting
pauses
adds some sprinkles as well
Goodnight, sleep tight. I’m totally not going to eat you as a midnight snack while your in dreamland.