I like fallen
angels, BDSM dominants (who aren't secret wimps), demons, and men who
say "f**k tradition." I like bad boys. One that really
sticks with me is the character Scar from Penny Alley's Incubus
Moon. He was the ultimate bad boy,
changed by love, but not diminished by it. He still doesn't give a
damn what people think about him, but he'd do anything for the woman
he loves. He can't even admit his feelings to himself (or, especially
not to her), but he has them and it shows. She knows it, feels it,
accepts it.
Bad boys make us a
little uncomfortable. I've written a few, and can meet two of them in
my book, Master
of Two. You can also get a taste of
them in a pair of free short stories on my site: ”Little
Leather Paddle" by James Harrison, "Renee:
His Good Girl," and "Amiko:
Adjustments" by me. Bad boys tend to crop up more in BDSM
stories than others, but they're not unheard of elsewhere.
One
of the appeals of bad boys is the fact that they're hard to get. They
really don't care if you like them. They have their own agendas and
act upon them. Until… until they meet the right woman. Then they're
determined to make her theirs, by hook or by crook. Something changes
inside them, but not so much that they're no longer bad boys—they
have to keep that attitude going—but enough that the reader senses
their devotion to the woman they never expected to find. Every female
reader wants to imagine that they're the woman who softens the bad
boy's heart like the heroine does.
Everyone loves a bad
boy, at least in their fantasies.
How do you feel
about bad boys in fiction? Do you have a favorite one?
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