Chaka/Daniel - my thoughts on why this pairing works

[brainofck]

sdlucky reminded me of Chaka yesterday.

She says she reads the story often and recs it to her friends, who are all squicked and disturbed, but, like herself, strangely bemused by the allure of the pairing.

So I was thinking...

In this story, anyway, Chaka is all about love! Maybe that's why it is not *just* disturbing. He's a sentient being. He wants to protect Daniel. He thinks Daniel is beautiful and sexy and attractive, even though he, himself, doesn't quite understand his own attraction, and even though Danel is alien to him. Chack has arrived at the conclusion that Daniel would make a great mate - for life - despite the fact that he isn't quite the kind of mate that all the other Unas males want!

In many ways, on an interpersonal level, Chaka not that different from Jack.

In sum, Chaka/Daniel works because it is so much like Jack/Daniel. *nods in agreement with self*

Comments

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

I can appreciate your intellectual comparison between Jack and Chaka's motivations but my interspecies squick just up and runs screaming from the room. I did read it tho, and it was marginally less creepy than the one I read about non-con with Chaka (no, I have no idea where it is) and another where Jack had to Alpha up, so to speak, to claim Daniel before the Unas did.

The former story was pretty much the author's deranged rape fantasy gone very very wrong and what's more amusing is that I read a review panning it long before I ever came across the story itself, which I read simply based on the wonderfully-descriptive review. Reading the actual story turned out to be a bit like stopping to wander around the train wreck, poking at severed limbs, rather than just rubbernecking like everyone else. The review I wouldn't mind finding again...