She's not Tessa, but Tess. Just saying. As for Kane consent, no, it doesn't work that way. Once given consent to participate in an obscure rehab program with obscure conditions doesn't change anything. In fact, in the Sub route we have a slave and Master relationship where no one asks Kane what he wants.
Femdom is one part of the BDSM subculture, and it's as much a fact as the fact that day replaces night.
BDSM, in turn, is impossible without its immutable tenets of "safe, sane, and consensual." And it's not a one-time consent..The participant of any BDSM-session, in particular, the "bottom" (sub), can always stop the game with the sacramental word stop...
But on the slave track (Sub route), no one asks KaneSub for his consent, the sadists don't care about his opinion at all. That's the difference...And the fact that such an element of consent/disagreement is present only on the SS branch (which, let me remind you, Tess herself considers to be a real femdom), once again confirms the plain truth that any femdom, as well as maledom, is a priori an element of the BDSM subculture, which is associated with strict rules to which both sides of the game of power exchange must obey.
But since we have not "harmless roleplay BDSM games in the bedroom", but a harsh post-apocalyptic utopia, with a race of slaves and a race of Masters, it makes sense that consent is out of the question...And since that's the case, it's no longer femdom, but slavery.... (except for the SS route).
Of course, in today's world, in the buy-and-sell coordinate system, no one will bother, and it's easier for Tess to call the whole game completely femdom, and Patreon will agree with her. That said, everyone is well aware that this game is not about "femdom in a cozy bedroom or fake dungeon", but about a slave who can either grow above himself, defeat everyone, and become Caesar, owning a corporation (rank Z5) and half the world. Or this slave can refuse responsibility and, after going through a series of humiliating trials, try to reach a lower level (but still quite high Z1-Z2) and become a servant/assistant of his Mistress (or group of Mistresses) belonging to one faction or another. And remain obedient to someone else's will, a kind of "slave in a golden cage".
And even in my case, where I, as a Dom player, play exclusively my oute...even here there is no purely maledom, but rather a set of elaborate tasks designed to bring out Kane's leadership skills and sometime in the future allow him to become a full-fledged Master of all these sadistic elite bitches..
That's the harsh reality of this game. But I realize that for some people who don't want to think about terminology, it's easier (and safer) to call it femdom and forget about it.
And I'm not talking about Tess, who, being a practicing dominant herself, understands perfectly well that real femdom (as well as maledom) involves a lot of responsibility and the very real concern of the "Top"(Dom) for the "bottom" (sub), but about ordinary players, some of whom find it easier to use familiar terms (even if those terms are in fact completely contrary to what is in our game).
But if someone doesn't like this reality of Kane's disempowered slave and finds it easier to call it all femdom (for their own comfort), then who am I to stop them?
