I think you've pointed out exactly what's wrong with LKH's understanding of the gray area between consent/rape. I sincerely doubt she would understand that. How could he gush about how wonderful it was, but still think of it as a rape? She doesn't understand the difference between sex and bodily/mental autonomy. It's not mutually exclusive. This woman did not ask your friend what he wanted, she just started manhandling him. Apperantly she was quite good at it and it probably fufilled a fantasy of his. But there is a major part of him seperate from the act that is unwaveringly NOT COOL with not being asked first. I don't blame him, either.
I think LKH's misunderstanding of that concept really showed up not only at the Micah shower scene in NiC with the not-rape rape, but also in CS. After Anita kicks Musette's ass, she and JC are discussing protecting everyone, and how Asher had enjoyed having sex with Musette in the past, and if Musette had sex with him that night without his consent, he'd still likely enjoy it. Then Belle Morte would not consider that harmful or rape. In what proved to be later irony, Anita muses that Belle Morte really doesn't understand the difference between love, sex, and rape. In later books, Anita does EXACTLY what she accuses Belle Morte of doing.
I think it'd be quite fun if Belle Morte was the reason Anita needs to "eat" so damned much and was making it impossible for her to control the ardeur like JC can. It'd be an awesome stamp of how truely horrific the "ardeur" is as a power and justify it being there as more than just a cheap "let's fuck!" excuse (though it still needed to be closed MANY books ago). It would also be a fun "gotcha last!" to show that yes, Belle Morte really DOES understand the difference between love, sex, rape, and blured it all like the terrifying master vamp of the high council that controls the world of vampires that she is. If she could be subtle enough to "puppet" Anita like that, and I may return to reading these awful books.
Alas, I hold no hope of this, except in fanfic. Nothing trumps Sueness as a the be all and end all of powers.
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I think LKH's misunderstanding of that concept really showed up not only at the Micah shower scene in NiC with the not-rape rape, but also in CS. After Anita kicks Musette's ass, she and JC are discussing protecting everyone, and how Asher had enjoyed having sex with Musette in the past, and if Musette had sex with him that night without his consent, he'd still likely enjoy it. Then Belle Morte would not consider that harmful or rape. In what proved to be later irony, Anita muses that Belle Morte really doesn't understand the difference between love, sex, and rape. In later books, Anita does EXACTLY what she accuses Belle Morte of doing.
I think it'd be quite fun if Belle Morte was the reason Anita needs to "eat" so damned much and was making it impossible for her to control the ardeur like JC can. It'd be an awesome stamp of how truely horrific the "ardeur" is as a power and justify it being there as more than just a cheap "let's fuck!" excuse (though it still needed to be closed MANY books ago). It would also be a fun "gotcha last!" to show that yes, Belle Morte really DOES understand the difference between love, sex, rape, and blured it all like the terrifying master vamp of the high council that controls the world of vampires that she is. If she could be subtle enough to "puppet" Anita like that, and I may return to reading these awful books.
Alas, I hold no hope of this, except in fanfic. Nothing trumps Sueness as a the be all and end all of powers.