I think I need some help and people I've been asking are giving me mixed advice and you look more blunt about it. You write more Reiji, Laito, Shu and Ayato sooo I don't know if I came to the right place to ask for advice on how to write Subaru ?? Some people write him too gentle others are too rough and there's some that have themes that look too farfetched for him. Sorry if this question puts you off or anything but I've seen you talk about Subaru sometimes and I thought to ask you.
Don't worry about it, lol. I have played ALL the Sakamakis without my bias getting in the way so I don't see a problem in asking me.Okay where to start...
I guess I'll start with the wrongful information spread about Subaru.
1. He's actually quite rough, he does have his gentle moments, but let's never forget that he can also be quite violent.Let's not confuse this for him actually beating a girl up. He's capable of pushing you up against a wall, punching the wall next to your head to make you jump, throwing you on a table, accidentally hurting you (like when he pushed Yui on the bed and there was glass that embedded on her back. That kind of 'accidental hurting'), cursing and just saying offensive things (he yells quite a bit when pissed but he's not ALWAYS yelling), biting roughly (though there will be occasions in which his bites aren't so rough but if he's punishing you, he'll make sure those bites hurt), threatening you (bluffing), breaking stuff in front of you to intimidate you etc.,
The reason why I listed this is because some people have headcanoned him as BEATING up his bride as a punishment, which is absolute bullshit. He can do all those things I mentioned above but using his fists and just going at a girl is too much. I write my dark shit but seriously if I wrote Subaru you wouldn't see me ever writing him doing that crap to a girl.
2. Dubcon and noncon themes... Subaru might be rough in biting you, ripping your clothes to do it etc, HOWEVER, he only has sex with the heroine after he's assured she's willing and consenting to it. He's not the sort that will hunt a bride down, beat her and then have sex with her willing or not (which I've seen some writers actually do with him and I cringed. Like if you want a Diaboy to do that crap, Subaru is NOT the guy for it and if he does it'll have to be special circumstances)
If someone wants a rough sex scene with him, to be IC they'd have to maintain that his partner is willing for it so Subaru would go through with it.(This consensual theme I feel is highly connected to his mother and father's relationship)So yeah, Subaru with those themes is pushing it.3. People that can't write Christa...
Now let's get down to business. ALL the Sakamakis have childhood traumas that influenced how they developed until the present day.How you write the influence of both the mother's and father will determine if you understand why the boys behave the way they do.Some people barely can get Christa accurately and because of this, in some fanfictions, you might end up thinking that Subaru has no reason whatsoever to act like he does when his mother is inaccurately written.While some write her as a sweet and completely mentally stable parent, others write her as insane all the time.Christa is unbalanced.
She does have her mood swings that upset Subaru as a child, yet she does have moments of sanity in which she cares for him.Subaru grew up with someone that could change moods like this, as well as someone that begged him to kill her, or considered him dirty or as something that tainted her (hinting at Subaru being a rape baby). If I keep going I'll write a whole essay on this, but once you look at his early years and his mother you can see why he has behaves that way.
4. Another inaccuracy is him being shy about sex like a little virgin which literally has annoyed me.Subaru might get flustered by holding your hand or being fluffy, but he might be smirking like a knowledgeable pervert when grabbing your tits.The boy is not precisely shy about sex and even offers sex. The times I recall seeing him blushy is when emotions are talked about, something affectionate is going on or his dere-dere side is exposed, but not really for sex.He's centuries old despite looking like a sixteen year old and from the way he offers it, he's obviously got experience and isn't a damned virgin.
5. His tsun moments. There will be moments in which he'll do things which you might consider kind that he'll get annoyed into covering up with some excuse to seem callous to you. That's all I can think up at the moment, lmao. But I hope this helps and doesn't confuse you more.