I wouldn't say G1!SS isn't submissive. I'd say he very much is, but he's the sort who has to be pushed until his (huge, all-consuming, tremendous) ego actually shatters. Only then does he let himself be submissive. But that doesn't mean he doesn't want that. As I understand him, he very much does. He wants as much power as he can amass, because he's greedy and vain and an epic bastard -- but another part of him wants just as badly to be forced to confess that someone else is even stronger.
But there's a difference between "I want you to break me, and I want to know your power by knowing that you're the only one who ever can" and "I have a deep need to please you," and yeah, that's the difference.
And the masochism. SG!SS comes to like it (or to admit, even if indirectly, that he likes it already) because it's what Megatron wants. G1!SS just plain gets off on it.
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And yes, that's the difference -- well, sort of.
What I mean is this:
I wouldn't say G1!SS isn't submissive. I'd say he very much is, but he's the sort who has to be pushed until his (huge, all-consuming, tremendous) ego actually shatters. Only then does he let himself be submissive. But that doesn't mean he doesn't want that. As I understand him, he very much does. He wants as much power as he can amass, because he's greedy and vain and an epic bastard -- but another part of him wants just as badly to be forced to confess that someone else is even stronger.
But there's a difference between "I want you to break me, and I want to know your power by knowing that you're the only one who ever can" and "I have a deep need to please you," and yeah, that's the difference.
And the masochism. SG!SS comes to like it (or to admit, even if indirectly, that he likes it already) because it's what Megatron wants. G1!SS just plain gets off on it.