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I love the dub-con cuddling tag so much
Before I start talking, let's establish that there is no such thing as 'dub-con', 9 times out of 10 it's just coercion (which is rape).
The reason I like the dub-con cuddling tag, is because with the type of fics it's usually written into (from my experience either Stockholm syndrome or just heavily biased power dynamics), it can only be dub-con.
This might seems obvious bc it's labeled dub-con, why wouldn't it be, but my point is that it will never be written as non-con.
These fics usually focus on the mental distress of the character being cuddled because of how the repulsion they feel for the person cuddling them clashes with their human desire for physical affection. This tag can never be non-con because some primitive part of the person will always want it.
I use this mostly in the context of dabihawks (bc I always do, also be aware in this AU Dabi’s pretty obsessive) and like the idea of sometime after the war, with Hawks in the hospital immobilized for his injuries, waking up in the middle of the night to Dabi breaking into Hawks hospital room through the window. He can't move, can barely talk, and is absolutely terrified by just the sight of Dabi. Dabi, irrationally happy at seeing Hawks weak and helpless and obsessively in love with him, cannot stop himself from erratically shoving the comforters off the hospital bed and forcibly embracing him. His arms loop themselves around Hawks waist and dig into the scarring on his back, he pushes every inch of his body onto Hawks and puts pressure in places that would make Hawks scream in pain if he could, and he nudges his face right against Hawks’s burn scar. Dabi is deliriously happy: he has Hawks immobilized, there is no resistance, and he has the freedom to do whatever he wants to the person he loves most in the world. Dabi is fucking ecstatic.
Hawks is terrified and absolutely repulsed. The person who had ruined his entire life, who had taken away a key part of his identity, was currently pressing himself against Hawks with such an eery familiarity that he felt like he might throw up.
Anyway it would just go into the psychological war that Hawks would be fighting between his learned repulsion and natural desires.
I might write a fic of this idk.