Mm. There can also be a drop afterwards if you aren't careful — that's why I do all those check-ins. Once the adrenaline and the kinda... euphoric 'high' wears off, you can wind up feeling depressed, withdrawn, upset — sometimes you realize after the fact that you regret letting a scene get to the point it did, or that something that was good in the moment wasn't quite so awesome after, you know?
（ sasuke wraps an arm around him, and cy makes space — open and flexible to accommodate. he settles his hand against sasuke's shoulder and gently trails his fingertips back and forth as he does. ）
Doms can get it too. Subspace is more about letting go, and being kinda zoned in on sensation and experience, but on the Dom side you need to be mindful, be in control, be attentive. It's more about achieving deep empathy and synergy — but there's a lot less research done on that side of it, and there's different schools of thought about what it looks like or means, that's just my take. When your partner gets into subspace you need to be even more careful, because people can get more suggestible or tolerant of things in a way that can very easily go badly for all involved.
（ a light shrug. he's already caught himself having to be mindful of sasuke's willing tolerance of... fuck, anything really, and while it's not a problem while they're experimenting with some of the simpler, more vanilla things — he knows he'll need to watch his step and his own tendencies towards sadism the deeper they get. that first stupid judgment call doesn't quite haunt him, but he's — aware of it, like something lodged between two teeth. ）
I don't usually experience it outright, myself. It's hard for me to pull myself into just a single moment. And sometimes I'm — （ his mouth twists. ） — anxious about how I present control, and handle it, and manage it, so any possibility of slippage there scares the Hell out of me, actually.
（ for reasons he knows he won't have to explain. ）
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（ sasuke wraps an arm around him, and cy makes space — open and flexible to accommodate. he settles his hand against sasuke's shoulder and gently trails his fingertips back and forth as he does. ）
Doms can get it too. Subspace is more about letting go, and being kinda zoned in on sensation and experience, but on the Dom side you need to be mindful, be in control, be attentive. It's more about achieving deep empathy and synergy — but there's a lot less research done on that side of it, and there's different schools of thought about what it looks like or means, that's just my take. When your partner gets into subspace you need to be even more careful, because people can get more suggestible or tolerant of things in a way that can very easily go badly for all involved.
（ a light shrug. he's already caught himself having to be mindful of sasuke's willing tolerance of... fuck, anything really, and while it's not a problem while they're experimenting with some of the simpler, more vanilla things — he knows he'll need to watch his step and his own tendencies towards sadism the deeper they get. that first stupid judgment call doesn't quite haunt him, but he's — aware of it, like something lodged between two teeth. ）
I don't usually experience it outright, myself. It's hard for me to pull myself into just a single moment. And sometimes I'm — （ his mouth twists. ） — anxious about how I present control, and handle it, and manage it, so any possibility of slippage there scares the Hell out of me, actually.
（ for reasons he knows he won't have to explain. ）