ok, so i need more than "May wanted to get Tommy pregnant" 😅🤣
what r u intending to explore in this dynamic? or is it just for funsies? either way i'd love to read it
The entire MayTommy dynamic is fascinating to me. This post is probably a good introduction to my thoughts on them. There is a sharp class difference. There is a misgendering. There is sense of Tommy as something of an exotic conquest to May. There is also a sense one gets that to a degree, she sees Tommy as something she can own, something that can be bought—from the moment she first lays eyes on him and starts bidding on a horse as a way of bidding on him.
At the auction, she saw Tommy and wanted him and started trying to get his attention by bidding against him, and intentionally misgendered the horse when discussing the horse Tommy with her father. "He's beautiful". "It's a filly".
May canonically REPEATEDLY compares Tommy to his horses (Grace's Secret and Dangerous who she trains for him and compares to him are also both female horses) and uses horses as a euphemism for getting Tommy in her bed and keeping him there... and it starts out in season 2 with her clearly establishing that SHE is the stud (the male horse) and Tommy is the filly (the female horse). She is implying she wants to sleep with him AND simultaneously making it clear who is "on top" in a metaphorical sense.
CARELTON STUD right there on her business card that she handed Tommy right after telling him, "I was looking for a filly for my stud". Makes it VERY clear who the STUD is and who the FILLY is in this situationship... and that she is interested in a transaction. She wants to buy him.
She wanted to BREED him, and Tommy slept with her in part to get laid and probably a little trying to get over Grace, but also in part to get something. At the auction when Arthur and John are snickering about May's obvious interest in Tommy, Tommy notes, "She has good contacts in the racing world." When he shows up at her gigantic estate, they actually subtly negotiate the payment for his body. Tommy says he assumes May has some influence over the board (that decides if Grace's Secret is good enough for the Derby) and May says yes, and then they make it clear what they intend to do with each other that night... then at the end of the season, May strengthens those implications surrounding buying Tommy by saying she will "win" him and then, when posturing in front of Grace, telling her she will make sure that Tommy gets all the betting licenses when Sabini's are burned and that will secure his place in her bed. She is always angling to buy him, and she actually makes the same implications again in season 4 when she writes Tommy a blank check in front of Lizzie. She lashes out at him resentfully when he tries to end things in season 2 by saying it'll be backwards at the derby with her down below with the horses and him up above with the toffs... and this bothers her because Tommy is supposed to be the one below her.
What I'm saying is... there is a strong subtext that really lends itself to a lot of common tropes in the ABO genre in terms of gender, hierarchy, prejudice, male omegas often being "rare" and both abhorred and desired, and that can complement a lot of the stuff about May misgendering Tommy and trying to assert a certain hierarchy through euphemisms, comparing him to a horse, wanting to breed him, and class and ethnic barbs in their relationship... as well as the intrigue of a canon divergence where maybe Tommy extends his tendency to use his body to get things, to using a marriage to get things (and probably becoming fucking miserable, because her house is too fucking much and she to an extent does not really see him as a person and also I think if Tommy was pregnant he could be very Unwell about it).
