Some of those mentioned above are pretty good. Some of them were a lot more into the age regression bit than I had meant; "ageplay" was not the best term for me to have used. More like cases where a young 18-20 year old or so finds out the hard way they're not so grown up as they think - preferably, for me at least, they find this out from somebody not in their family; that seems to be the most common scenario I come up with.
I guess one thing I look for is something that helps create a suspension of disbelief; something. To make the implausible seem plausible. I mean, the idea of an 18 year old guy getting put across his landlady's knee or a 19 year old girl pretending to be 15 for whatever reason, living with a middle aged woman and trying her patience badly enough that the woman turns the girl over her knee...well, this is not a particularly plausible scenario, but there are stories out there that deal successfully with even less plausible scenarios, and make them plausible.
I suppose you could make the story plausible one way or the other, depending on whether you showed a progression from the perspective of the younger person/adolescent/spankee, or the perspective of the adult/spanker.
Take the case of a story seen from the point of view of the younger person. Maybe they find themselves in a living situation with an older adult with kids...and they start realizing (gradually) they're still on the "kid" side of the adult/kid line. Not out of nowhere, though; their own behavior and the adult's response to that behavior makes it gradually clearer that they're still an adolescent, 18 or not. They repeatedly find themselves getting into trouble with the adult of the house - extremely minor things, at first, and gradually progressing. The adult usually treats them naturally as a teenager, not an adult, and establishes themselves as a dominant role without even thinking about it, and without making some point of it - it just happens naturally, because they're the adult and it's their house, after all - and the subject of the story just sort of falls into the situation. Maybe the situation is that they see the adult as an authority figure, and are afraid to outright defy the rules, and just find themselves going along with the rules the adult lays down...most of the time. They don't think much about it, but eventually they slip up in some minor way, getting a pretty minor scolding from the adult, but it reminds them out of the blue of their subordinate position, just a little. Probably just slightly embarrassing at first; nothing even close to serious...but the snowball keeps rolling. Probably the key with this type of story I suppose might be that the adolescent sees themselves slipping into being treated like a kid, but can't do anything about it. With every minor transgression, they see the adulthood they had assumed they had slipping away one little bit at a time, but they can't even complain because it usually really is their fault; either they weren't paying attention, or they thought they wouldn't get busted, and when they do get busted the embarrassment at knowing they earned the scolding (or more) makes them feel even more childish. So in this case, it's the adolescent that sees things snowballing.
Or take the opposite case, where the story progression is seen from the perspective of the adult. Maybe the idea of treating a young adult as anything other than an adult never even occurred to them. In that case, I suppose the key is to see their patience being worn thin over time by the increasingly obvious (and probably unforseen) immature behavior from the young adult, with a growing frustration and exasperation, combined with their being at a loss for how to deal with the situation. Perhaps the idea what she needs is to have to sleep on her stomach now and then just comes into their mind unbidden; the progression their would be to show them laughing and dismissing the idea as absurd, then gradually being worn down over time. Maybe the adolescent's immature behavior is all it takes to change their mind eventually, or maybe they run across some sort of parenting magazine with an article about how adolescents still need discipline, or maybe she runs into an old friend who reminds her that's it's her house and she needs to enforce the rules somehow. Maybe she's on the bus and overhears some older ladies talking about some crime committed by a teenager, talking about how a lack of discipline causes that sort of thing, etc. and so forth. Over time they're worn down, until the inevitable happens.
I suppose you could show a story from both perspectives, of course, showing a progression from both points of view. And of course you could show a story where neither side's views progressed; the adolescent's unstated view would be "Lol of course I'm too old for that; how is that even a question" and the adult's unstated view would be "Lol of course they aren't too old to get it; how is that even a question?" And nothing changes until The Inevitable occurs, and the Irresistible Force shows the Object they're considerably less Immovable than they had thought. That fourth category is fairly common, I suppose, and can give a good twist ending.
But I suppose what I'm looking for is stories where that progression occurs, and is seen by one party or the other, or both.
I'll stop rambling now. ;) |