I'm probably not making it clear enough, here and elsewhere in converstation, that I'm extrapolating from show canon re: the emotional bond between them and their reaction to having been changed into women about how easily they'd fall into sex. The bond between them on the show is clear and doesn't need slash goggles to see; I'm not talking about teh big gay love, I'm talking about how Rodney is worried about having lost John's trust after Doranda, how John needs to know that they're cool after shooting down the dart that had him captive, how John confesses (badly) that he loves his team as his chosen family and would do anything for them, how Rodney spends what he thinks are his last hours of life reaching out to the people who are important to him. Those bonds are real and evident, and they're shown to be very strong between this particular group of people. To go into any story where I'm to assume that there are no strong bonds between John and Rodney tells me I'm in an AU, because they're there, by intent and by depiction, in the canon. If someone doesn't see them, they don't seem them, but I'm not going to agree with their interpretation or find it believable in a story.
As far as their reaction to being 'womanized' and their sexual response, I think of John, who never sees it coming, and Rodney, whose romantic dorkiness and cluelessness is played for humorous effect, and Rodney's consternation at his body's being made to kiss Carson, and John's wide-eyed sort of fear reaction to being approached by women, and I'm thinking, these aren't a couple of Cassanovas, here, competant and comfortable in their sexuality to a degree that THIS situation wouldn't throw them for an enourmous loop. My imagining how this would be enacted in canon is pretty hilarious, actually, and there's no way I can see them, based on the canon, as not becoming at least somewhat overwrought and insecure over the whole thing to a degree that would require them to have the kind of trust and connection that we have seen displayed on the show with the other person in order to contemplate sex. That, along with my ideas/experiences with self-proclaimed straight guys (there are issues bound up in that identification that also influence my view) is where I'm getting the 'logical view' conclusions for my reading. If I'm not supposed to read this story with an eye to canon connections and characterizations, then I need the author to tell me I'm reading an AU before I understand that. I don't think this was meant to work outside canon, but maybe it was, and the author just didn't identify it that way.
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As far as their reaction to being 'womanized' and their sexual response, I think of John, who never sees it coming, and Rodney, whose romantic dorkiness and cluelessness is played for humorous effect, and Rodney's consternation at his body's being made to kiss Carson, and John's wide-eyed sort of fear reaction to being approached by women, and I'm thinking, these aren't a couple of Cassanovas, here, competant and comfortable in their sexuality to a degree that THIS situation wouldn't throw them for an enourmous loop. My imagining how this would be enacted in canon is pretty hilarious, actually, and there's no way I can see them, based on the canon, as not becoming at least somewhat overwrought and insecure over the whole thing to a degree that would require them to have the kind of trust and connection that we have seen displayed on the show with the other person in order to contemplate sex. That, along with my ideas/experiences with self-proclaimed straight guys (there are issues bound up in that identification that also influence my view) is where I'm getting the 'logical view' conclusions for my reading. If I'm not supposed to read this story with an eye to canon connections and characterizations, then I need the author to tell me I'm reading an AU before I understand that. I don't think this was meant to work outside canon, but maybe it was, and the author just didn't identify it that way.