SpankeeArchetypes

I'd like to add the dominant character in many of my stories; the absolutely braindead person who accidentally walks into a confusing situation and gets mistaken for the one that actually should have been spanked. Everybody think they are doing the right thing, but it goes so wrong. Maybe there's partly an overlap with 6 here.

I'd venture that the difference between the two, #9 vs. #10, would be that #9's misconduct would be found out rather quickly after she engages in it, thus her guilt is expiated through corporal correction before it starts to seriously 'weigh down' on her psyche.

For #10, presumably she has been deeply guilt-ridden for quite a while, months or even years, before circumstances result in that feeling finally being purged via a severe spanking, or perhaps even a series of such punishments.

Thus I would agree that basically these two categories are separate...

--C.K.

Yes, the typical situation I had in mind for #10 was someone who managed to frame another girl for breaking a school rule that #10 had actually broken, getting the other girl the punishment that #10 should have suffered, then encountering the girl and her former headmaster at an old school reunion, and confessing...

#11[ Could be a woman, or even a teen aged girl who has learned she enjoys spanking, or receives sexual gratification from being spanked.

Adding onto what Glagla is saying, there is the totally innocent/falsely accused/mistaken identity/wrong place at the wrong time trope. There are plenty of ways for that to play out.

On the darker side, there is the victim, someone who has done nothing wrong but is punished just for the amusement of the spanker. For example, Daddy tans his daughter's hide for fun or treats her harsher than her brothers. Or a headmaster or dorm monitor that has a particular girl they target for punishment (while ignoring the same offense by others). Or some jerk that just decides that his girlfriend looks better if her ass is red despite her protests she's done nothing wrong.

Interesting discussion of common tropes in spanking fiction. But I have to say if I find a character falling too rigidly or one-dimensionally into one of these roles, the story is less interesting to me. After all, in RL, you're rarely if ever going to find a spankee who fits exactly into one of these categories. To me, the best spankees in fiction are simply well-rounded human beings who, due to whatever circumstances, are in for a spanking. Ideally, the spankee is reluctant, embarrassed and excited.

Thank you. I was fairly astounded that it took 10 alternate types to get to the most realistic one.

Ahhhh well, this could fit into either #7 or #8, couldn't it?

For #7, she has erotic reactions to the idea of being spanked, yet isn't certain about her feelings until she experiences it.

For #8, she's aware of her spanko-bottom tendencies, thus she intentionally provokes other people into spanking her, however in a playful, teasing manner. (This 'misconduct' is/was called "bratting" by submissive participants in spanking-oriented relationships.)

This female (#11) arguably might be a separate 'bottomish' type if she gets spanked by simply asking someone else to spank her, or if she deliberately provokes a spanking, but does so by seriously challenging an authority figure and/or intentionally being caught breaking institutional rules.

The motivation would be the same as in #7 and/or #8, yet the methodology (how she gets herself spanked) could be different. Is that enough to make it into a separate category? I'm uncertain about that...

--C.K.

Then there's the type or subtype (#11a. ?) who enjoys the after-effects of spanking, but fears being spanked, leading to a 'flirting with danger' attitude - deliberately risking a spanking again and again, only to pull back at the last moment, knowing that sooner or later she'll fail to escape...!

Well, that might also apply to category #7, and certainly to #8.

Indeed, I've read accounts by spanko-submissive "brats" (usually females) who like to make a game out of seeing how much "bratting" (deliberate playful provocation) they can engage in before their spanko-dominant partners become annoyed enough to paddle their posteriors.

(Occasionally the 'toppish' one might largely ignore the teasing annoyances at the time, yet later catch his/her 'bottomish' partner off-guard with a sound spanking "for your recent bratty behavior.")

In babysitter/child and teacher/pupil disciplinary situations, sometimes the potential spankee will attempt to get away with as much mischief-making as possible, 'pushing boundaries,' however without 'crossing the line' and thereby earning him/herself a butt-whacking.

It's fairly common behavior, I'd venture...

--C.K.