I think he'd do more than an adequate job of it, and I wouldn't be surprised if he had a vicious streak a mile wide to boot.
I think some of it depends on whether he's really enjoying it as a rape, or if there are complicating factors. Cut With Diamonds!Peter likes to fantasize that Ron is a willing participant, though it's painfully obvious that he isn't. What I actually said in the fic is that he "can't get comfortable" to penetrate Ron, which I wanted to have a double meaning: physical and emotional discomfort.
You're quite right, Peter is intelligent, competent, and merciless. But he doesn't know he is. That pathetic lack of self-confidence is what makes him behave as he does in canon. He "gets the job done" all right, but it's the way in which he does it -- crying, trembling, cringing, begging, etc. I think that may be what I and other writers are responding to.
Frankly, I wonder if a lot of these perceptions of Peter as a bumbling, practically asexual character have to do with his weight.
I do think that contributes to it, but what he actually does and says in canon, and what is said about him, doesn't help either. Myself, I don't find fatness unattractive (quite the opposite, frequently).
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Date: 2004-06-08 11:46 am (UTC)I think some of it depends on whether he's really enjoying it as a rape, or if there are complicating factors. Cut With Diamonds!Peter likes to fantasize that Ron is a willing participant, though it's painfully obvious that he isn't. What I actually said in the fic is that he "can't get comfortable" to penetrate Ron, which I wanted to have a double meaning: physical and emotional discomfort.
You're quite right, Peter is intelligent, competent, and merciless. But he doesn't know he is. That pathetic lack of self-confidence is what makes him behave as he does in canon. He "gets the job done" all right, but it's the way in which he does it -- crying, trembling, cringing, begging, etc. I think that may be what I and other writers are responding to.
Frankly, I wonder if a lot of these perceptions of Peter as a bumbling, practically asexual character have to do with his weight.
I do think that contributes to it, but what he actually does and says in canon, and what is said about him, doesn't help either. Myself, I don't find fatness unattractive (quite the opposite, frequently).