Basic Trope: A character who is dominant and aggressive in their sexual advances but is tender and submissive when it comes to sex and affection.
- Straight: Sam is both The Tease and a very possessive and domineering of their love interest, the more friendly and quiet Blake. When Blake reciprocates and takes them to bed, Sam becomes meek and coy, insisting that Blake takes the lead.
- Exaggerated: Sam is an absurdly Hot-Blooded Boisterous Bruiser who waxes rhapsodic about how much they love sex and being on top, and yet is reduced to a babbling mess as soon as Blake so much as suggests they sneak away and kiss.
- Downplayed: Sam is The Stoic, and is a flirty Deadpan Snarker, who nerveless becomes a little less flirty and a little more submissive during the leadup to the act.
- Justified:
- Sam is a Type-A Tsundere, and their tender side happens to be the side they’re on during sex.
- Sam is a masochist who enjoys the role-reversal from their normal self.
- It’s Their First Time and Sam is very nervous, throwing off their normal attitude.
- Sam is a Human Alien who is superhumanly strong or otherwise physically dangerous to have sex with-they don’t dare act aggressive during the act due to being worried about hurting their lover.
- Sam subjects themself to Best Them To Bed Them and considers their body, by right, as the property of the victor...regardless of what said victor thinks about the situation.
- Inverted: Blake is the very picture of the submissive Yamato Nadeshiko most of the time…who is an absolute cackling fiend in the bedroom.
- Subverted:
- Sam seems to be recalcitrant and meek at first, but as they get into the mood more they slowly becomes more aggressive and domineering.
- Blake muses about Sam being submissive in bed, then there is a Gilligan Cut to Sam throwing Blake on the bed then straddling them.
- Sam is immensely aggressive and overexcited to a comical, bumbling degree...
- Double Subverted:
- Blake tells Sam to knock it off, and Sam immediately blushes, smiles, and returns to being a bottom.
- ...and Sam becomes immensely relived when Blake offers to take charge as they're clearly trying too hard.
- Parodied:
- Sam is a dominatrix by trade, who is very, very bad at the “dominating” part of their job.
- Both Sam and Blake are Aggressive Submissive Tsunderes, who get into an incredibly quiet war of Politeness Judo over who will make the first move in the bedroom as they're BOTH too shy to get started.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Sam is a “power-bottom” who is submissive in a very aggressive, demanding manner.
- Sam's a Switcher who tends to change role depending on the lover in question, even if their personality is always the aggressive flirt outside of sex.
- Averted: Sam is as aggressive in bed as they are is in daily life.
- Enforced: It’s a hentai doujin and the fan-artist is uninterested in drawing Sam as dominant.
- Lampshaded:Blake: ‘‘…Alright, lowkey, did not expect this night to end with me on top…’’Sam: ‘‘M-me either!’’
- Invoked: Sam deliberate plays up their more submissive side in order to win over Blake, who found their more blatant come-ons intimidating.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: “What, you think I’m going to roll over easy just because I called you to bed? You’re going to EARN my affection!"
- Discussed:Blake: I guess the smallest dogs bark the loudest...or moan the loudest, in this case. Isn't that right, puppy?Sam: ...If you tell anyone I'll kill you, ok? Particularly the part about me being your little puppy!Blake: No promises.
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Blake ends up turn Sam down after they show themselves as submissive, being turned off from the change in personality and worrying if they actually have Sam's consent.
- Blake themself is also a sub, and since neither really knows how to be a dom, the whole experience winds up being awkward, uncomfortable, and unpleasant for both of them.
- Reconstructed: Eventually, Sam manages to explain that their submissiveness is not to reluctance but preference, and they get together with Blake together in the end despite-rather than because- of Sam's kink.
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