@littlest-lily I must admit I chuckled at Evie’s misinterpretation of Aiden’s proposal. Unwanted little tiny, ready to hit the pavement and find new digs on her own. 
Too cute.
Much more encouraging is Evie’s determination to adapt to her new circumstances. Many tinies would not only despair but also pretend to be happy for their keepers’ sake. Good on Aiden for being honest with his feelings, too.
@BryTheGuy Well, first of all, we have no reason to believe that the tiny woman in the trailer will be a recurring character. We’ll have to keep an eye on the characters’ names when they are released (although the credits may just give their civilian identities).
As much as we all might like it, I would be surprised if they just did a female version of Termite: a supe who can shrink at will. There has to be something new and different, or it would seem repetitive. She could be permanently tiny, but that would make all of her appearances rather expensive (and therefore probably infrequent).
If I knew nothing about the universe of The Boys, I’d guess that the tiny girl is a victim of someone with the power to shrink others. That doesn’t seem to be the kind of power that Compound V has produced so far, but who knows. If such a shrinker were a recurring character, I’d expect to see more tiny people in the trailer. I therefore think any such shrinker would be a short-term (heh) villain and not a major character.
Setting the trailer aside, I’d like to see a female supe who can shrink, but she has to stay shrunken for a minimum period of time. Even more fun: anyone she is touching when she is using this power also shrinks with her.
@Mrgoblinging7 I have complicated thoughts and feelings about this. My formative years occurred before the Internet, so I thought I was the only size perv on the planet. Mainstream size content was all I had. I developed a keen sense for determining what sort of TV shows, movies, books, and comics might feature size content, and how likely such content might contain risqué hints. The best you could realistically hope for was a lingering handheld, a little unaware contact, or some lewd innuendo. Since no one acknowledged size as a fetish, any such scenario would most likely occur in a humorous or horrific context. Cartoons in adult magazines were the best bet, but even there it was very slim pickings.
The other aspect of being reliant on mainstream size content was knowing that if a given TV show or comic series ever did feature a size scenario, it would almost certainly be the last time it did, because the normies would become bored if the show kept returning to the size well. This made those rare size episodes even more fraught, as I knew this was the only chance I might ever get to see, say, a tiny Mork in the same frame with a normal-sized Mindy or a shrunken Diana Rigg crawling about on a giant desktop. Children’s shows were more frequent in their use of size themes because they didn’t expect their audiences either to remember the last time or to care if they repeated themselves, but they were also much less likely to even hint at sizey sexytimes.
In recent decades, however, the Internet has revealed us size pervs to each other and, so-very-slightly, to popular culture. There’s also simply more entertainment content out there (including previously-inaccessible foreign sources), and size content has increased commensurately. There are therefore many more opportunities to encounter mainstream size content, and just as many opportunities for it to be more embarrassing than arousing.
Perhaps because I “imprinted” on mainstream size content, I am still often satisfied when a size encounter keeps the sexual possibilities as subtext. As the volume of size content grows and special effects become cheaper, there will always be opportunities for lascivious leering, indecent proposals, and inappropriate handling. It’s a fine line for mainstream content producers to walk, and I share the Goblin King’s worry that explicit sizey sexytimes can come across as mockery.
The Boys surprised me with Termite. They retconned his character to include a throwaway sight gag from the first season opener, and I was certain that the big splash he made in the third season opener would be the last we would see of him. That they brought him back for “Herogasm” made me worry that either a) mainstream fans would (justly) complain that the show was running out of ideas or b) they were making fun of size pervs. Fortunately, his appearance was just decorative and didn’t derail the plot.
This was also a worry with Downsizing. An R-rated movie from a director with a history of shooting comical nude scenes had the potential to be either miraculous or catastrophic in its presentation of size sexytimes. An early draft of the screenplay had a brief sex scene between different-size characters, mostly off-screen but leaving no doubt about what was happening. I suppose we should be grateful that the finished film ignored the possibilities of giant-tiny sex altogether.
@littlest-lily As part of the narrative, I might share Aiden’s speculations about the cop showing him around the lab, but in my experience cops really are just that dumb.
I’m really enjoying both Evie and Aiden individually renegotiating their new reality. They didn’t really know each other before the accident, so they don’t have much history together as peers. The size discrepancy is therefore an important part of the foundation of their relationship, which is probably good considering how permanent it seems it will be. If they’d known each other for a while before Evie got shrunk, one or both of them might find that history too much of an obstacle to a size-difference relationship and reject it altogether. Then we’d have to find a new custodian for Evie.
@Mrgoblinging7 Tinies so incarcerated smell and taste wonderful. 
@littlest-lily Be warned: The Boys is notorious for graphic violence and explicit sex, and judging from the trailer we can expect the same from Gen V.
Gen V is an Amazon Video spinoff series from The Boys featuring college-age superheroes, premiering in 2023. Check out the trailer at 0m42s for a tiny girl getting trapped under a plastic cup.
@littlest-lily Slow burn is perfect. We want to get to know these two better.
As demeaning as it might appear at first, I’ve always thought tinies would prefer to sleep in a drawer or a similar enclosure in order not to feel so exposed.
I’m looking forward to Evie working up the nerve to ask Aiden to curl his fingers around her.
