This time I'm going to go about things calmly and try to explain a few things.
First of all, what I've been saying all along: I don't condone treating women this way. Writing it does not mean I have some dark, secret desire to abuse and humiliate women. If you think that's true then you know absolutely nothing about how a writer works.
I can understand why people would be upset with this story. These are characters you care about, you don't want anything bad to happen to them and having this character rape and abuse them is very upsetting. I totally get that! I sometimes feel the same way when I read similar stories. But here's the thing, and I've said this before as well, I'm NOT the character.
The way this character thinks is messed up. Hell, he has admitted it himself IN THE STORY. I think some of you are having a hard time coming to grips with this fact because it's written entirely from his point of view. When I created this character it was entirely for the purpose of creating someone I'm not. I've read a lot of fanfiction over the years, and I've gone to classes that have taught me how to create characters that I would normally despise. I comfort myself with the knowledge that the characters I create, and the situations I put them in are not real. They are created from my imagination, but they do not define me as a person.
Writing this story was a challenge because this is a character I would probably beat the shit out of if I ever met him. For the people who thought I wrote this easily because it's in my nature, you couldn't be more wrong. I wrote him like this BECAUSE it's against my nature, BECAUSE it gave me a challenge, and BECAUSE I as a human being believe what he's doing is wrong. It took me out of my comfort zone as a writer.
Another reason why this story is probably so hard for people to take is because there's a very significant psychological component to what he's doing to these girls. I didn't shy away from it like a lot of people who also write these kind of stories. The entire purpose of including the psychological component was to draw people further into the story and make them FEEL, whether they wanted to or not. A lot of people generally felt disgust and contempt toward the main character. You were supposed to. No one is supposed to think this is right. The way he justifies his actions is WRONG, it was written that way on purpose. To the people who thought his justifications were my own, you jumped to a conclusion about my personality and that's why I've been so angry about some of the responses. I don't mind if you don't like the story, I do mind if you think me writing this character means I AM the character.
Lastly, there is one other huge misconception a lot of readers have had: That Santana isn't planning something. This story is entirely from the main character's point of view, so he wouldn't know if Santana is planning something to fight back against him. And she is. She's been planning something ever since the first night. The reason you didn't know that is because the main character didn't know that.
Let me make something perfectly clear: He is NOT going to get away with this forever. I plotted out very few things in this story more than a chapter or two ahead, except for how it would end, and how the main character would get taken down. Trust me, what he's done to the girls won't even begin to compare to what will happen to him. That was always the plan. I WANT you to hate this character so badly that when he gets his comeuppance, it will be incredibly satisfying.
You people who are judging me for this story have misjudged not only my motivation behind writing it, but also the path the story would take. As I mentioned, I totally get why you're upset, but I am NOT the character, I don't share his broken justifications for raping Brittany and Santana, and I sure as hell don't want anyone to go through something like this in real life. I hope the more reasonable and intelligent among you can understand that, while the more emotional ones just stay away. You're allowed to be angry about the things that are happening in this story, you're allowed to hate the character for what he's doing to them, you're even allowed to think there's something wrong with me for writing it.
However...I'm also allowed to be angry that you think you know me well enough to know what kind of person I am. NONE of you know me, yet you're making sweeping assumptions about the kind of person I am based on this story I wrote. If you think the stories that people write in any way define the kind of person they really are, then you're painfully naive and know absolutely nothing about literature. You have the right to give your opinion, but you don't know me well enough to have the right to judge me.
Let me ask you something. This story has got several favorites and over twenty follows. Does your broken logic also mean those people approve of abusing and humiliating women in real life? If your answer is yes then I'm sorry, but your crazy.
