God, this thread is more active in spewing posts than the Vesuvius lava in 79 AD! Whence did the entire last 3 pages come from in the past 12 hours???
Not that I'm complaining or anything!
Not sure if it's something to mention in your list, but for clarity's sake, the defiant path isn't now, nor will it become maledom or even vanilla. It just leads to harsher treatment.
I might've been the one that mislead
Aseratrix by accident, so I apologize
volbells. I took the fact that in the description of the game on f95 it asks whether MC could "tame" the dominant female character into a "helpful ally" or be tamed by her to mean that if one plays as a defiant male MC there may be some minimal maledom content in later versions - I'm actually relieved to hear that that inference is wrong and duly apologize to you! Also, great first chapter and I'm so far loving the submissive lezdom on this as I played as female on my first playthrough!
I realized something just now, browsing through the list and having a private chat with Raven:
Poney-play is a very underused expression, I never understood why, its basically the entry-way into femdom for many [the girl riding on your back]. When in RPGM's you travel with a girl or girls, it would be a no-brainer for them to ride you after awhile.
Peniban Quest also had some scenes where you pull the carriage of your female party members/mistresses if memory serves me right, but it truly is amazing how far less explored direct actual pony play is in femdom games as opposed to femdom porn videos, where it's pretty much a staple genre...
I understand both your pov, but consider this:
Have you ever watched a nature documentary about lets say the dinosaurs and they without fail for the 10000000000th time get to repeat how the earth formed from an accretion disk of stellar remains, and also how a huge asteroid killed them off? They could instead speak about details, the story could be about a small pond in the Triassic, without ever having to introduce you to the whole of cosmology and that the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct when a huge meteor about 10 km in size came sizzling down and hit the Gulf of Mexico. If you do, then it is this reason why I think not every femdom game needs to be about how X ended up being in a femdom situation. Instead the story can be about what makes the relationship work, and perhaps work backwards to reveal details about the genesis.
Or how for the 100000000th time they use non-feathered scientifically-inaccurate dinosaurs just because too many idiots took Jurassic Park for evolotionary-biology gospel... Just give me my damn winged and gracious swan-like raptors and the floofball giant chicken-like T-Rexes - the world would objectively be a better place for it!
It's still crazy how few things actually do portray feathered dinosaurs as the norm, even though this is a known scientific fact for many years now. (and in case anyone takes me too seriously, no the T-rex did not look like a giant rooster - it had fewer feathers than that, but there was a cute and hillarios meme drawing of a T-rex that looked like a chicken which made the rounds on social media a few years ago)
Getting to your underlying point and debate with
baxtus , I too agree there is a place for narratives that skip the intro of how the character got into lezdom/femdom, plus that "Ai Shield" establishes from the get-go that MC is in a desperate situation where they are submitting in order to be able to defeat a tyrant demon-king that oppresses his/her people, or in order to gain absolute power over the realm themselves, not because they are a natural-born sub.
I agree it would feel forced if MC just worships Ai's feet cause she ordered them to do so, but if you read the fine print of the situation, with MC having been almost killed by the Demon King in their last encounter, Ai actually holds all the cards as at least MC believes she is their only hope at succeding in their quest, and therefore MUST obey Ai for the time being out of practical and rational considerations! (eg to eventually gain absolute power, fame and glory or save the people of the kingdom, depending on your choices) It's a nice plot device volbells used with MC being already in a desperate bargaining position so as to skip the need for a slowburn start, but there will definitely be a further descent into deeper and harder femdom in future updates, as currently MC is only putting up with Ai's shenanigans because they think they have to so as to achieve their original goals - MC wasn't yet broken in the least, and I'm honestly looking forward a lot to how this psychological domination will be implemented in future updates! (granted mind control and a mistress training and reshaping an originally defiant character into her ideal slave, slowly picking apart their defenses, exposing their submissive desires and making them submit on her terms are among my favourite kinks, but even if they aren't for you the game definitely has a lot of ways to strengthen/develop the femdom going forward)
