Title: Grab and Hold
Fandom: Kingsman: The Secret Service
Pairing: Merlin/Roxy Morton, background Harry Hart/Eggsy Unwin
Categories/Genres: Post-Canon, Plot What Plot
Length: Medium (5559 words)
Warnings: N/A

Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: TheDamselfly

Summary:

There is a gun strapped to her leg under her dress, a grenade in her coat pocket, and even unarmed she is more dangerous than most thugs on the street. There's something that's missing, but she's certain that she's got it all figured out now.

"Kingsman doesn't expect me to stay celibate forever, yeah?" she asks, like she's just curious. Merlin stares at her like he's not quite sure what's happening to him right now.

Review:

Ask me what I think about Kingsman: The Secret Service. Then watch as I sprint to the nearest rooftop and start screaming all the things I loved about it. Because I do love the hell out of the movie. But make no mistake, while I'm up there, I'll also make a point to scream about how there wasn't nearly enough Roxy being awesome. Fortunately, I have fanfiction to remedy that shortage.

TheDamselfly's Roxy is the embodiment of confidence. She's confident in her appearance, abilities, and unabashedly possessed of her own sexuality in a way that female characters are not typically allowed to be. She knows what she wants, knows how to get it, and has no qualms about doing whatever it takes. And once she's got Merlin right where she wants him, she's utterly honest in her pleasure.

And it really is about her pleasure. TheDamselfly frames Merlin's pleasure as tangential to Roxy's, more of a means by which Roxy can scratch an itch than an end in an of itself. It's a direct subversion of common portrayals of sex in the media, where men's pleasure is paramount, while women's pleasure is very narrowly defined, if even explored at all.

Grab and Hold