Needs Met, page 04

[erinptah]

Title: Needs Met, page 04
Rating: PG (post-coital cuddling)
Characters/Pairings: "Stephen"/Jon, l!"Stephen"/Jon, l!"Stephen"/"Stephen"
Disclaimer: This is a work of parody. Although reference is made to real persons, the dialogue, actions, and content are products of the artist's imagination only.

For some reason LJ insists on displaying the strips at something like 90% size. Not a big deal, but if the text is ever hard to read or anything, try the DA link for the full-size version.

This is supposed to be a couple of weeks later, thus the changes in clothing.




Also here on DA, with links to the rest.

Comments

[sarcasticsra]

Also, can you imagine the ramifications of "Stephen" actually having a happy marriage, and, more than that, a support system other than Jon? The possibilities are simply delicious.

[sirdrakesheir.livejournal.com]

Why did they get married, then? I assume he did it to preserve the illusion*~*~* that he was a vagina-loving heterosexual he-man, but what was in it for her? And did she know at the time or did he come out later only to have her announce that hey, that's cool, he was lousy in the sack anyways.

I only ask because I was about to type "Aw, his kids wouldn't even be emotionally scarred!" and then I wondered if/how they would factor into the equation.

[sarcasticsra]

It was to preserve the illusion, yes, but also, you know, love. I mean, I think that "Stephen" at least cares about his wife even though he's not in love with her. In my head, something happens at some point, maybe she gets actual proof of his cheating or there's something else that provokes her, and they have a big, explosive argument, where she's like, "No! You will sit there and you will not say another word while I talk!" or something similar and he kind of immediately obeys to her, almost on instinct. It surprises them both. And then they talk, and she realizes he's much closer to gay than straight, and instead of divorcing, they come up with this arrangement.

I haven't figured out how their children factor in, if they even have any yet. It's still sitting half-formed in my mind.

[sirdrakesheir.livejournal.com]

Oh, he definitely loves her. If this were my story, they'd get married even though she knew he was gay, because she does love him, if maybe not in the way most wives love their husbands, and this would be a way for him to live the life he wants to live without having to sacrifice his family to get it.

IDK, at any rate, I have a thing for people of incompatible sexual orientations living together in happy sham marriages so I expect that this fic will make me :DDDDD when you get around to it.

[nelleellen.livejournal.com]

IDK. I tried that with my gay best friend after I came out, so that I could provide a (quasi) two parent homelife for my kids after I divorced the ex-husband. It turned into a situation waaay beyond angsty, since he turned out to be so damaged that he sabotoged any loving relationships in his life, including friendships. I've been tempted to try to write a fic about it, but I'm afraid it would just turn into therapy that nobody else needs to read. Maybe it would work as a plot bunny for someone who wasn't so close to it.

TMI?

[nelleellen.livejournal.com]

To clarify...we weren't married or sleeping together, just sharing a home and living family-style. We dated people appropriate to our given orientations. :)

[erinptah]

Oh, wow. Sorry to hear that crashed and burned for you.

[nelleellen.livejournal.com]

It's still not a bad idea in theory, with the right people, doing it for the right reasons. He just wasn't the man I believed him to be. Sadly enough for him. Life's better now, though.