Don't Tread on me!

A Domme's guide to survival in Sapphory

Hi everyone.  With 0.5 drawing ever closer, the previews we've shown so far point to one thing over all others: that Missy is going to be utterly humiliated for every second of Chapter 4.  The majority of you are no doubt rubbing your hands (among other things) with glee at this prospect, but as I've mentioned before, I also try to keep in mind that we do have domme players here, and you're no doubt wondering how much of this humiliation is avoidable.  Well... the answer is almost none of it, but that doesn't mean you get nothing, you just get it later on.  And that's often a theme in Missy, so today, let's spend some time talking about Domme-Missy, and what she can look forward to.

Right from the off, I've made it clear that Missy is a game in which the protagonist gets bullied a lot.  At home, at school, by teachers, her carer, the bad girls, even by her own girlfriends in the bedroom.  However, one of the choices that you can make in the game is whether to passively accept this treatment or fight back against it to a degree.

I say "to a degree," because I have constructed the world of Sapphory in such a way that much of the punishment its unlucky inhabitants receive is beyond their control, especially if they're in high school.  Even the almighty popular girls must still bend to the will of the teachers. All of their scheming is worth naught when they're told to open their tops, lift up their skirts and then stand there red-faced being made to prove they're in regulation underwear.  None of their smarts will save them from punishment if they're not.  And of course, this goes for Missy too, so as you've seen, opportunities to stick it to the teachers are rare.

The same is largely true of Karen. You're playing a schoolgirl, she's subject to Karen's rules and more or less at her mercy. Maybe in the future, we'll see Missy get one over on Karen, but it's hard to do when she has all the authority and you have none.

So where does this leave Domme-Missy? Well, fortunately, she's not the only one at the bottom of the food chain. So far, we've seen her able to have her way with slave girls and criminals, defeat various bad girls in schoolyard fights, even stripping Jess completely naked, and humiliating Poppy with a little help from Malia.  And it's that last one that gives us the best insight into how dominant players should experience Missy.  

Before we were able to defeat Poppy, she first.... oh wait... SPOILER WARNING! 

...she first pushed us pretty hard, sending bad girls after us who would strip and humiliate Missy if she lost to them, having Missy taken home by the guards and punished by Karen (though I doubt she planned that one,) and finally ambushing Missy in the toilet with 5 of her friends.  The scene at the end in which we can finally strip her and parade her around Fallulah Park is intended to be cathartic.  After everything she's put us through, finally she's the one naked and on a leash.

We saw it with Rosaleigh too.  We ended up being able to have our way with her, but before that, she made us dance in our panties, eat her out and felt us up as much as she liked.  And that's before we get to what happened if we failed at least once...

In Sapphory, and with the home and school life she has, Missy will not always be the one on top, and won't even necessarily always have a way to come out on top.  In Chapter 3, we had no choice but to endure the medical exam (though we'd had our way with the slave girls before that,) and in Queen of the Ring, we never got back at Jess for humiliating us at the naughty window or in the pile-on at the end, (yet, anyway....)  The forces ranged against a dominant Missy are pretty formidable.

But for those who want to be able to "win," that's the upside: revenge and deferred gratification.  This is used a lot in fiction: the hero (or heroine in this case,) overcomes adversity and triumphs, but first they have to experience that adversity.  Missy suffering these humiliations in the first place is what makes visiting them back on her tormentors all the sweeter.  Plus, it means they can take their revenge on us later (which subby players will love,) and we can take revenge on them for their revenge on us, and it just becomes this whole sexy cycle of dominance and submission!  I think most of us will agree that's exactly the relationship we want to have with, say, Jessica or Poppy.

Chapter 4 is only the first of what is now looking very much like it'll end up being a three-part story.  The Reign of Jess will be brutal, but it isn't hopeless.  And while subby players will love every minute, (I hope,) be assured that I haven't forgotten about those of you that want to see the spoiled little princess of the bad girls get what's coming to her.  There will be multiple variations of the ending.

Thank you for reading this week's rather long public post.  Next week, we'll have a report on the game's progress, but the short version for now is that it's on track.  Have a great week!

Trinian