Oh, and I agree with you about consent issues in slavery. Not to bring a serious tone into all this, but I remember there being a certain US president that didn't consider it a problem... things like that actually happened in real life.
Going back to the more cheerful topic of grusome stories that are Thank The Gods fictional, this was my problem with that one Matt + Frank fic on AO3. I could be mixing things up here, but from what I remember — they get together seamlessly, like it's nothing. I don't neccessarily need Frank/Foggy/whoever to virtuosly refuse doing it with complete consistency — sometimes Foggy in DfS is a little too good at, well, being good for me to believe him — but I want it to be Problematic with capital P. Otherwise slavery is just an inconsequential prop for your romance story.
Also, in DfS Matt is almost physically unable to refuse an order from a free person even when he knows they don't mean it and Foggy is currently questioning if Matt didn't go along with their friendship just to pacify his owner, sooo... yeah. There's some consent issues there.
(I really love that tiny tibit in DfS where Matt is terrified that he may have been raped by Fisk. Even though it happened to him so many times before and he was forced to learn to accept that as his reality, just the idea that it happened again makes him Not Okay. It drives the horror of this kind of abuse home like few things do).
Re: S1 Slavery AU
Oh, and I agree with you about consent issues in slavery. Not to bring a serious tone into all this, but I remember there being a certain US president that didn't consider it a problem... things like that actually happened in real life.
Going back to the more cheerful topic of grusome stories that are Thank The Gods fictional, this was my problem with that one Matt + Frank fic on AO3. I could be mixing things up here, but from what I remember — they get together seamlessly, like it's nothing. I don't neccessarily need Frank/Foggy/whoever to virtuosly refuse doing it with complete consistency — sometimes Foggy in DfS is a little too good at, well, being good for me to believe him — but I want it to be Problematic with capital P. Otherwise slavery is just an inconsequential prop for your romance story.
Also, in DfS Matt is almost physically unable to refuse an order from a free person even when he knows they don't mean it and Foggy is currently questioning if Matt didn't go along with their friendship just to pacify his owner, sooo... yeah. There's some consent issues there.
(I really love that tiny tibit in DfS where Matt is terrified that he may have been raped by Fisk. Even though it happened to him so many times before and he was forced to learn to accept that as his reality, just the idea that it happened again makes him Not Okay. It drives the horror of this kind of abuse home like few things do).