Okay, now the rambling considerations behind that, lol. This is much less coherent than the first part :P
The most important question would be - is he having sex with people against his will or not? That's sort of the basic question. Is this a sex slave fic. If the answer's yes, then you can still work with a sort of 'treated well so long as you behave' thing and say he's long since stopped fighting.
If not, you're dealing with a whole different kettle of fish (like, a whole let less angst, for a start :P). I'm not sure how that would work with the whole buying him for a night thing, though. That pretty much suggests he's a prostitute. Which almost has to be in an enslaved, unwilling way...unless you write like a crazy Stockholm Syndrome thing, which could be interesting, but really, really hard. An option, though. A really, really complicated option XD
Assuming he is having sex with people, though (that is to say, to get it clear, being repeatedly raped on a regular basis), since that seems to be where it's going...? Then given that slavery's not legal, he has to be kept there by either violence, the threat of it, or the threat of *something* else. It doesn't have to exist in the timeframe Brendon comes into; you can just make it there's a bunch of big burly guards, so Ryan could *try* to escape, sure, but there's no point, so he's stopped trying. You still need the threat of *something* to make him do the sex slave thing, though. He's not going to have sex with these people unless he's being made to in some way. If you want to avoid violence/past violence...I don't know. Food deprivation's an option, but is kind of just as bad...there has to be *something*. Otherwise you've got Ryan voluntarily up and becoming a prostitute, which kind of kills your dramatic plot :P So. Treated well, yes, but there has to be some kind of privation he was put through when he was first taken and refused to do it, and it's the threat of that that keeps him in line.
The above is why casting fic characters as the 'master' figure makes me nervous, lol. If you're happy for Pete to be the 'bad guy', then it's cool, easy. If you don't want him to be the bad guy, you're going to have to do something weird with the power structure/info flow for Pete to be in charge and not be a villain enslaving Ryan and forcing him to have sex with people for money. But yeah, casting Pete as the bad guy is fine, you just need to be aware you're doing it and actually write him as the antagonist, or you end up with the 'but he's really an awesome cool person who other characters adore even though he's selling rape and that's all good' that makes a lot of slavefic soooo cringeworthy.
- I LOVE THAT BRENDON GETS CAPTURED TOO XD I have no idea how it'll work, but it sounds hilarious XD Even though it's probably not, lol :P
- Oh, that has to be taken into account with the 'nature of the establishment' as well. If Brendon's being captured, then this is going to have to be considerably black market and shady beneath the veneer of the stage show - it's not just buying existing slaves, it's kidnapping wealthy young guys who piss them off and forcing them into slavery. That adds another element to the dynamic.
I think I've repeated myself like 13 times now, but 'what Ryan is' is a really important element to have down, 'cause it'll shape everything else about the story from when he's taken on. You need to know exactly what he's being made to do, and how he's been made to do it.
I hope I don't sound really negative :S I don't mean any of it negatively, I think this is going to be completely madcore. It's just *so* easy to screw slavefic up. And I really want this to be awesome XD Hehehe. But yeah. Main thoughts up top, lol. One day I'll learn to be succinct :S
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The most important question would be - is he having sex with people against his will or not? That's sort of the basic question. Is this a sex slave fic. If the answer's yes, then you can still work with a sort of 'treated well so long as you behave' thing and say he's long since stopped fighting.
If not, you're dealing with a whole different kettle of fish (like, a whole let less angst, for a start :P). I'm not sure how that would work with the whole buying him for a night thing, though. That pretty much suggests he's a prostitute. Which almost has to be in an enslaved, unwilling way...unless you write like a crazy Stockholm Syndrome thing, which could be interesting, but really, really hard. An option, though. A really, really complicated option XD
Assuming he is having sex with people, though (that is to say, to get it clear, being repeatedly raped on a regular basis), since that seems to be where it's going...? Then given that slavery's not legal, he has to be kept there by either violence, the threat of it, or the threat of *something* else. It doesn't have to exist in the timeframe Brendon comes into; you can just make it there's a bunch of big burly guards, so Ryan could *try* to escape, sure, but there's no point, so he's stopped trying. You still need the threat of *something* to make him do the sex slave thing, though. He's not going to have sex with these people unless he's being made to in some way. If you want to avoid violence/past violence...I don't know. Food deprivation's an option, but is kind of just as bad...there has to be *something*. Otherwise you've got Ryan voluntarily up and becoming a prostitute, which kind of kills your dramatic plot :P So. Treated well, yes, but there has to be some kind of privation he was put through when he was first taken and refused to do it, and it's the threat of that that keeps him in line.
The above is why casting fic characters as the 'master' figure makes me nervous, lol. If you're happy for Pete to be the 'bad guy', then it's cool, easy. If you don't want him to be the bad guy, you're going to have to do something weird with the power structure/info flow for Pete to be in charge and not be a villain enslaving Ryan and forcing him to have sex with people for money. But yeah, casting Pete as the bad guy is fine, you just need to be aware you're doing it and actually write him as the antagonist, or you end up with the 'but he's really an awesome cool person who other characters adore even though he's selling rape and that's all good' that makes a lot of slavefic soooo cringeworthy.
- I LOVE THAT BRENDON GETS CAPTURED TOO XD I have no idea how it'll work, but it sounds hilarious XD Even though it's probably not, lol :P
- Oh, that has to be taken into account with the 'nature of the establishment' as well. If Brendon's being captured, then this is going to have to be considerably black market and shady beneath the veneer of the stage show - it's not just buying existing slaves, it's kidnapping wealthy young guys who piss them off and forcing them into slavery. That adds another element to the dynamic.
I think I've repeated myself like 13 times now, but 'what Ryan is'
is a really important element to have down, 'cause it'll shape everything else about the story from when he's taken on. You need to know exactly what he's being made to do, and how he's been made to do it.
I hope I don't sound really negative :S I don't mean any of it negatively, I think this is going to be completely madcore. It's just *so* easy to screw slavefic up. And I really want this to be awesome XD Hehehe. But yeah. Main thoughts up top, lol. One day I'll learn to be succinct :S