Poor Bianca. She’s trying to come off as cool and nonjudgmental, but instead of steering the conversation into neutral waters, she tapped into a topic that Jany only has more self-defensive embarrassment and anger about.
At least Jany has the discretion to treat it as a private conversation she doesn’t want to rehash, instead of running off to Tumblr to make a 5000-word Callout Post about how Bianca is an abusive grooming pedophile because she mentioned that BDSM exists. Probably ships something horrible and problematic, too, like child-coded 28-year-olds, or characters who were good friends as kids which makes them basically siblings so therefore it’s literally incest.
saturn39: oh yeah? creepy things like *what*?
Bianca (thinking): Okay, how do I explain this . . . in a way that does not involve having to talk about anything personally embarrassing?
violetbauble: Like bdsm stuff 4 example. Someone who likes tying their partners up & havin them say “yes sir” & idk, spanking them or w/e.
violetbauble: W/ a human partner u would have limits & negotiations & stuff, & if it’s not somenthin they want, they have a safeword, right?
violetbauble: But a Being would never safeword. It’d be like hittin them is ur actual relationship. not a sexy game u agree 2 play.
Kara Lynn (Jany’s thoughts): Do I look pretty like this, Master?
saturn39: i would never!!
saturn39: hurting someone is *never* sexy!
saturn39: where are you even getting these ideas?
saturn39: maybe patrick should be worried!
saturn39: but just b/c you have scary fetishes doesn’t mean everyone does!
Bianca (thinking): Whoops. Either she’s a hardcore anti-kink person . . . or I just accidentally touched a nerve.
Beings are not people. You don’t abuse being (you are master of) if you hit them or even cut them. You abuse them if you don’t give them any orders or give complicate contraindicating orders or told them they hurt you.
You can, in some circumstance, actually harm them by NOT hitting them.
… but we will need to wait for chapter 21 for that whoa I didn’t realized how far away we are from that.