[Report This]Date: August 30 2024 9:24 AM Title: Chapter 2: Big Girl
It's incredible just how negative an environment a reality show can be for a growing giantess!
I don't mean that in the sense that Kim is being judged for her growth or that it's making things difficult for her on the show, but the people influencing her are leading her down a far darker path than any of them realize, I think. Charlie is the worst offender here by far, but Valerie and even Thomas enabled some pretty shitty behavior on Kim's part as well.
When I started reading Charlie's perspective in chapter one, I was kind of thinking I was going to like him. I've been feeling that way less and less with pretty much every line from his point of view ever since. In this chapter, he was pretty disgusting, at least to me. Kim was actually starting to come to terms with some of the real consequences her growth could have on her if it continued, and he "helped" her through it. Aside from the fact that his empowerment lie was just a way to brush aside the reality of her situation, he wasn't even really doing it for her sake. He just needs her to stay confident so he can continue to be a critical player behind the scenes of the show.
Unfortunately, steering Kim deeper into her love of the power she has over the smaller island residents is most assuredly going to come back and bite, if not him, somebody (or many somebodies) in the butt well before the end of the story. Embracing that feeling of using her size to get what she wants out of people, without really caring what they think, is almost guaranteed to lead to bad things for everyone but Kim in the chapters ahead.
And before I move on to Valerie and Thomas, I wanted to note that I thought it was a very bad sign for Kim and Aaron's relationship that the line that got her to really go for Charlie's argument was about Thomas's reaction to her continued growth down the road. Him saying that fired her up, but she didn't even think about Aaron's potential reaction at all. Not only is she partnered with Aaron, but he's also into this, so if she really cared about him, you'd think she would have thought about that instead of getting excited over rubbing her size in Thomas's face over and over again.
What Kim did to Thomas in Thomas's segment also made me feel this way. Kim is still too focused on fucking with Thomas to make me think she's the least bit serious about Aaron. She's just keeping him around because she wants to stay on the show and she needs someone to let loose all that horny energy on. I mean, she probably likes him at least a little bit, but not nearly as much as fans of the show would likely believe as they were watching this portion of it.
Now, Valerie and Thomas both enabled Kim in her bullying of Aaron. She was embracing that power that Charlie told her to when she tried to make Aaron drink, despite him rightly refusing to do so (trying to keep up with Kim could have led to some serious consequences for her, given her size). In fact, no one took Aaron's side when he spat the alcohol out and left. Valerie was just trying to take her friend's side when she used the excuse that "he said dare." And Thomas's ego jumped on the opportunity to put Aaron down and pretend like he would have faired better by taking that swig of whiskey after the fact.
These reactions were bad because Kim briefly considered that maybe she had crossed a line. If someone would have been honest with her, she might have realized that she had and maybe went to apologize rather than get more wasted and make Aaron eat her out like nothing was wrong.
And Kim's dismissive attitude toward Aaron's complaint reinforces all of the above. Aaron couldn't do anything about (like she noted Thomas couldn't about her teasing him about her growth), so she didn't worry about what he had to say, outright ignoring him at first. That also showed how little she actually cared about him as a person, as even a power-hungry person would at least care a little about what their loved ones have to say about things like that. Lastly, it displayed the consequences of that enabling at the fire. His complaint wasn't a big deal because, whether she actually remembered it of it was a subconscious thing, everyone else assured her that she was in the right and that Aaron was being a baby.
All of this is going to lead to an uncaring, dominant giant Kim who will likely feel no sense of responsibility for her actions in the long run. Or at least that's what I'm predicting.
And let me just say that, much like I noted several times in Growing Closer, your descriptions of the smut in this chapter was spot on. It was so easy to picture those scenes between Kim and Aaron in the bedroom, both at night and even them both getting themselves off in front of each other in the morning. You also convey Kim's scale compared to him quite well in that last segment.
Poor Lauren. For a second, I thought Thomas really was going to go for her. I will say that Monica seems really fun, though. And the fact that she both likes to feel small and seems a little obsessed with Kim makes me think we'll see some fun between the two of them before the story is done. How fun would it be if Kim stole Thomas's boyfriend on top of all the "size hazing"?
As for Thomas himself, he's giving me some serious Jake from Growing Closer vibes. I didn't think I'd like him at first, and, unlike my initial feelings on Charlie, I was spot on with this one! Not only is his general thinking kind of gross, but the way he has jumped from girl to girl so quickly makes him really unlikable.
Him being intimidated by Candace being only slightly shorter than him in heels was kind of pathetic, but, I have to say, it was a bit hypocritical of her to push him aside so quick for it. Whether he meant it or not (and we know, based on his own words, that he didn't) Thomas had been reassuring her about her own insecurities for a whole week. So it seemed pretty shitty of her to move on to the next guy at the first sign of him being insecure about something. They're both kind of shitty people, I suppose.
I really enjoyed this chapter. We started to get to know more about the larger cast, there was some good smut at the end, the reality show portions were fun to read, and, most importantly, we got a lot of insight into how Kim's thinking is being influenced, which, again, I feel confident in saying is hugely foreshadowing for whatever is to come.
Keep up the good work!
Author's Response:
Thanks! I hope the unlikability of the characters doesn't stop it from being enjoyable to read, but I guess it wouldn't be a reality show without some bad eggs!