I usually get a feeling for whether someone is a dom or sub on a TV show and Rodney, for me, is such a through and through sub that it makes no sense that he’d dom. Like I said, i don’t begrudge people enjoying it that way around, but in terms of what Rodney IS, in character and essence, he’s a complete sub. He’s not one who needs to be ordered around though – which is why John works perfectly as his dom as he’s not interested in being that kind of dom. Gibbs, for example, wouldn’t work at all with Rodney! Just as John would be completely wrong for Tony – there’s no way Tony would submit to a dom like John. Tony needs the gruff, no nonsense kind of dom – he’d just view John as more of a friend to hang out with and go drinking with, and John would always know he was only getting Tony’s lip service submission – Gibbs is the only one who’s ever gotten Tony’s REAL submission – ever.
But Rodney does need someone who’ll occasionally get firm to him and stand up to him – and it has to be someone he respects. What I like about John as his dom is that he has the soldier skills Rodney doesn’t possess but also Rodney can respect him because he ALSO has a good math brain and is clearly very smart – Rodney couldn’t respect him if he wasn’t. I don’t think Rodney would make a very good dom – he could play with it in a sex game but I don’t think it’s a role he’d take to naturally. And if he had a good idea for something in his lab, he’d just leave his sub tied off and rush off to go do it, forgetting all about his tied up sub! Rodney is someone who needs to be taken out of himself – and also someone who needs to be shown some very clear love that doesn’t confuse him.
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