I know that characteristically it won’t happen much, if ever, but hey a girl can be curious. Headcannons of mark being the dominant one in bed
okay, so, i know mark cohen SEEMS like a subby sub who subs… because he’s just. you know, a nervous, stammering people-pleaser who wants everyone to be happy and is still completely wrapped around maureen’s little finger months after they broke up.
i think we can all agree that he’d look so damn pretty spread out and shackled to a headboard, covered in bruises and begging for it. you know. voice cracking, whimpering, tugging at the restraints.
but i would like to also argue that, being so highly-strung, mark likely has a WICKED dominant streak buried under his awkward veneer.
roger is, naturally, the only person who knows this. he probably would have been comfortable enough with maureen to let loose, except maureen is like a fucking femme fatale dominatrix, she just… she’s overwhelming, in a good, good, oh so good way, but it doesn’t leave a lot of room for mark to flip things around, shake it up. maureen is too busy domming the hell out of him, sitting on his face, and he leaves that relationship feeling rather like he’s been tossed around in a hurricane, like he never quite caught his balance while they were together. so. maureen doesn’t know. but roger, well.
roger is pretty dominant with him, too, from the get-go, never hesitating to grab and manhandle him and force him down on his knees, and mark is totally a-ok with this, obviously. because mark is, mainly, a sub, has always been mainly a sub (and by always, i mean that maureen makes up about 90% of his sexual history pre-roger), and he likes being jerked around and told to take it. he genuinely just gets off on that so fucking hard, of COURSE he’s wanted roger from the start. roger is a domineering bastard, most of the time. mark knows, the walls in the loft are paper thin and he’s heard enough of roger’s sex life to have a solid grasp on what he’s like in bed. loud, filthy, commanding, and not afraid to get rough. mark has fantasized about being on the receiving end of that for so long that he almost comes in his pants the first time roger fists his hand in his hair. and wouldn’t that be horribly telling?
but roger also has a persistent little submissive streak, one that mark is reasonably certain he’s only shown to a small handful of people ever, ever, and that’s both impressive and a little sad, considering how many people roger has been with. it’s a trust thing, though. being… vulnerable, losing himself in it, he can only do that with certain people, and roger’s not the kind of guy who lets you get to know him just like that.
so once he’s done choking on his tongue and using a wad of fast-food napkins to mop up the sorry remnants of his tea from both his pants and the hardwood, mark is actually kind of honored the first time roger comes into the kitchen and asks mark if he’ll bend him over the couch and spank him. it’s shocking, but it kind of makes sense. especially when he’s actually doing it, feeling the sting on his palm, the heat rising off of roger’s pinkening skin, the way the breath punches out of him in choked whines and sobs each time mark’s hand connects, and then the noises he makes when mark crowds in against him, how he reaches backwards in desperation to pull mark close, digs his chipped-polished fingernails in and begs, fucking begs for him to fuck him. yeah. mark… could definitely get used to that.
he does get used to it. and he enjoys it, frankly, about 1000% more than he ever thought was even fucking POSSIBLE.
up until then it was all fantasies. just… the idea of it, of tying some faceless body up, of saying filthy things in that low voice he’s too embarrassed to use in real life, in case it doesn’t sound as sexy as it does in his head. the first time he uses that voice on roger - “on your knees” he says, fighting to keep the mortification off of his face even as he says it, but roger goes down like a stone and his eyes are glazed over with awed lust and mark’s suddenly too busy having his dick sucked to regret it - is an epic success.
which makes him… curious. and mark is, as we know, an obsessive little fuck, and after they start, he just. can’t. stop thinking about it.
sorry for all of the backstory, i just, i made a sub!roger post a while back and i couldn’t stop thinking about how well that would tie in with this. so. here are the headcanons you asked for, anyway!
mark can get shockingly rough when he feels like he’s allowed. it’s no secret that he likes being roughed up, himself, but he can give as good as he likes to get. (you wouldn’t think it, looking at him. his thighs have got a bit of muscle to them - not a lot, but he does walk or bike practically everywhere, he can’t very well get interesting footage if he only ever takes the subway.)
he has a weird fetish for fucking on non-bed surfaces. maybe it’s just the thrill of doing something “wrong”, or the idea that they were too desperate to wait until they got to the bedroom. which is not untrue, and actually happens… a lot. mostly because roger engineers it that way.
this translates to them having very aggressive, you-have-to-be-fucking-quiet-i-mean-it-roger sex against the bathroom counter in mark’s mom’s house at least once. roger is such a fucking tease, and mark just cannot let it go without consequence.
come marking is one of his biggest weaknesses. mark is fastidiously neat in most areas of his life, but when it comes to sex, he’s… he’s a little ashamed to admit it, but he loves it messy. and when he’s feeling dominant he gets POSSESSIVE. which he’s also a little ashamed of, but roger goes fucking nuts when he pulls out and comes all across the backs of his thighs, or on his face, that one time. so it’s probably okay. it takes him a while to feel confident asking for it, or, well, telling roger he’s going to do it without asking, but holy shit… it’s so hot.
he likes to hold roger’s throat gently between his fingers while he sucks him off. likes to feel it working, every swallow and moan, especially when roger takes him all the way down and gags on it.
if he comes in roger’s mouth, he always pulls out and demands to see the evidence. roger learns pretty quickly not to swallow right away. learns to open wide and push it up onto his tongue for mark to see. he doesn’t want to disappoint mark, and mark always loses his mind at the sight of it, usually shoves him down and fingers him into a blinding, sobbing orgasm on the nearest horizontal surface, so roger’s sure as shit not going to complain about the taste.
mark is the biggest fan of foreplay you will ever meet. seriously, this boy could spend fucking hours fingering his partner open. sometimes he does, if roger will let him. just. fucks him with his fingers, takes his time playing with the angle and the pressure and the pace, rubs up against his prostate all absently like he’s not rock hard and leaking with want, like he’s thinking about the weather and not fucking roger straight through the mattress.
he’s got an excellent poker face in bed, when he’s feeling dominant, which roger maintains is patently unfair. and stupidly hot.
it takes him a while to warm up to dirty talk. he’s a nervous stammerer and it shows if he tries to start too early; he’s got to give himself time to get into it, loosen up, get himself all hot and hard until he doesn’t care anymore, can’t even bring himself to be embarrassed.
when he DOES get warmed up, mark has an even filthier mouth than roger, which is just. mmmm.
he gets carried away, a lot. says a lot of things that are frankly impossible, sometimes illegal, just fantasies but the sheer fact that mark is saying them, promising them, in that low dark voice never fails to set roger off like a fucking geyser when he’s close. one time he told roger he was going to fuck him onstage in front of every single one of his fans and make him beg for it right into his mic.
he spends a lot of time post-session feeling weird and skittish and guilty, guilty, guilty, about the marks he left on roger, about the shit he said while they were in the middle of it, high on endorphins.
i don’t know if he’d ever necessarily learn the term but what he’s dealing with is called dom drop, or top drop, and admittedly it does take roger a while to get that telling him to stop being fucking ridiculous isn’t good enough aftercare. he gets it eventually, though.
mark dedicates himself thoroughly to the task of learning how to tie a decent knot, which is good, excellent, because when roger’s feeling subby he becomes a complete rope bunny and mark is DETERMINED to do it right - he will not hurt roger in any way that they haven’t talked about, in any way that roger’s not explicitly asking for or expecting. he’s scarily serious about it. he knows how to do all kinds of fancy shit even though they barely ever get past wrists and ankles before roger has goaded him into fucking him so hard he’ll be limping tomorrow.
not to say he doesn’t have any sadism in him at all… because he does, he does, fuck, roger is so pretty when he whines and cries and arches into the pain. but there’s a lot of guilt to work through, there. and it will take him time to get there.
(when he does get there, he acquires a flogger and they become best friends.)
mark is fucking amazing at aftercare, because he’s a sensitive little mouse at heart, even when he’s all fired up and possessive. he knows intimately what it’s like to have to come out of subspace and whenever roger’s been down he takes extra special care bringing him back up and out of it, slow and gentle. tells him how good he is, how gorgeous he was. mark is normally such a mess when he’s trying to express things like this but when they’ve just ended a scene, and roger is the vulnerable one, mark has no problem waxing poetic about the lovely little details of his handprints still lingering on roger’s ass or the way his face had twisted up when he came, just minutes ago. he’s totally willing to spend hours pampering roger after a scene. prefers it, really. it helps with his own drop, which he gets more often than he admits.
when he’s bringing roger back up, he’s hands on the whole time, never stops touching him if he can help it. if they need a shower (they do) they get in together, and mark spends extra time washing his hair, so gentle, and between his legs, which roger complains about, but mark insists is necessary. partly, he just loves to make roger squirm, but he’s also always paranoid that he’s been too rough with him. he’ll kiss every inch of roger three times over until he’s satisfied that he’s unhurt and satisfied. his fingertips and toe knuckles and the backs of his knees. his eyelids. his palms. the shells of his ears. his jaw and his neck and his sternum, and his inner thighs, even when roger groans and tries to kick him away. mark is too thorough to let any little bit of roger go unkissed. that would be criminal. and roger is his, anyway, on these sorts of days, so he can shut his damn mouth and take it.
also, this one is it’s own separate note because it is IMPORTANT:
mark loves topping from the bottom!!!!
he loves fucking roger, but he also just. loves. riding roger’s cock while he’s bound up and can’t do anything about it. loves torturing him like that, even though his own thighs are shaking, his own back is covered in sweat from the strain of holding back. sometimes he’ll get himself off on roger’s cock and still not let him come until he’s cleaned himself up and untied him, and by then roger is so worked up that it barely takes three strokes before he’s thrashing and coming apart.
more rarely, mark will tell roger exactly how he’s allowed to fuck him, walk him all the way through it until he loses it. but roger is terrible as a service top because he’s just… too damn defiant. needs to be tied down. so it usually devolves into sexy, sexy wrestling if mark even tries, and then he ends up giving in and fucking roger anyway, too wound up to make a second attempt the other way around. eventually he figures out that if he fucks roger well into subspace first, he’s a lot more likely to be docile enough to take orders, but like i said… rare. birthday sex levels of rare. mark likes to take his time but even his patience is tested by the sheer amount of effort it takes to get roger THAT agreeable.
