The truth is I don’t recall from Buffy, Friends, Game of Thrones, and Roseanne any instance where a character who had been sexually assaulted in a relationship with a more powerful individual who turned around and entered into a relationship where that character was the more powerful one and it was portrayed as a good thing. // What about Daenerys?
What about her? Are you talking about Daario Naharis, the warrior with his own mercenary company, The Second Sons, of 2000 soldiers who only took control of the company by killing his fellow commander and then infiltrated Daenerys’ camp with their bleeding heads in a bag, without being caught, who defeated the Mereenese champion without breaking a sweat, who infiltrated Vaes Dothrak? He may not be a queen, but he’s not defenseless either.
Whether it was a good relationship or not, depends on your point of view. She did dump his ass.
Or are you talking about Jon Snow, former King in the North, former Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, now Warden of the North and a Surprise Targaryen who survived the Great Ranging by infiltrating Mance Rayder’s camp, who survived Hardhome and the Battle of the Bastards. He may not be a queen, but he’s not defenseless either.
Now, the unknowing incest is problematic for me and now that it’s out in the open, I’m eager to see how it gets resolved, but before hand, when neither of them knew? Not an imbalance.
It’s certainly far less of a power imbalance than the one between an adult millionaire werewolf with a prestigious family name and impressive combat skills and an adolescent teenage boy with ADHD, PTSD, with no job, canonical family money problems, and sarcasm as his only defense.
