Fabulous France just defeated her arch-rival Mega Megan in the BWL Pit. Now, Megan retreats to her locker room to gather herself and try to accept her humiliating upset defeat. Little does she know that the humiliation is just beginning.
These Go to Eleven, Too
*** Warning: Possible Spoilers ***
Well…things didn’t go exactly like France had expected, but everything (graphics, poses, dialogues and inner thoughts) was absolutely great (as usual), so kudos to Sherlock and Entropy!
Megan and France are super hot, but when they’re together. they’re just insanely hot (imho): that locker room soon became a sauna, lol 🙂
Maybe the next time they will meet, France will be Meg’s size again and things might go as I’ve been hoping for a long time (never say never) 😛
Damn this was hot
I won’t post a spoiler warning, because you should not be reading the comments BEFORE you read the story; the comments are always a REACTION to the story. : | I’m going to be going pretty deep on this one…
I’ve been wanting to write something about this for a week or so now, but hadn’t had the time, because I knew it would be pretty long. ^__^;;;
I’m actually going to be talking about 747 as well, because these two stories together are really ONE story, and stand as a testament to just how GOOD Entropy/Sherlock are when it comes to finding novelty in the narrative, and thematic structure…because BWL-747 and BSF-543 are BROKEN MIRRORS of each other!
The idea of symmetry has been inherent in the France/Megan dynamic since the first story; originally a one off idea, a sort of TWLIGHT ZONE ‘What if…?’, the initial idea for that story was, ‘What if France had to fight France?’
It wasn’t just that Megan was as BIG as her; there are other girls that approach France’s size, like Caribe, Regine, Rita, and Melanie; it’s that she was EXACTLY France…but also the opposite. France was a brunette, Megan was blonde. France is comfortably and openly sexual, Megan was a stuck-up prude. Megan was a Dark Mirror character in the same vein as Bizarro Superman or Venom, or any number of dark counterparts to the Hero…equal but opposite.
And, miraculously, Megan stuck around beyond that one-off story…there was novelty in the idea of a Dark Mirror to France…and in the idea of a sort of classic Heel character for the BWL. Someone who stands in opposition to everything the BWL stood for, but was frustratingly unbeatable (at first).
But stagnation is DEATH in fiction…characters cannot remain the same. Megan could NOT remain a prude in a sexual world. She had to evolve…and that evolution made her interesting. We watched her have a sexual awakening. We watched her struggle through her divorce and through her Irish-Catholic upbringing to overcome her prudish, conservative, fear of her down desires and embrace her feminine desires.
Believe it or not, but despite many aspects of the BWL being designed to appeal to the male gaze, it is also has a very liberal and feminist approach to sex. Almost NONE of the characters are definitively straight (at least among the women), and all of them are sex positive, and the women all have AGENCY in their relationships. Megan taking control of her life back from her husband and from her upbringing and finding that she likes to be dominant, and embracing that she has a fetish (for balls, of all things! :D) and OWNING that is very liberating. While she probably identifies as straight, I think it’s pretty safe to say that she’s bi-male preference…with a fetish for dominating other women.
Which is where we get to THESE two stories.
I don’t know if I’d say that Megan and France have a love/hate relationship, but there is definitely an attraction there. They are drawn to each other. There are intense feelings there…be it malice, jealousy, envy, or lust. They cannot escape each other’s orbit. But they’ve always been EQUAL. Even if one of them beat the other, they opposite would soon prove true, and they’d return to the status quo. But with every turn of that wheel, they took it a bit further…with France taking it the furthest when she dominated Megan in a hotel with a strap-on, and Megan struggled with the realization that she enjoyed it…and the knowledge that she’d have to do the same to France in order to restore the status quo.
But, like I said…status quo is POISON for fiction, and thus, Entropy and Sherlock smartly asked the question again, ‘What if…?’
One of the easiest ways to generate novelty in a story is to look at your hero and their qualities…and see what happens if you take ONE of those things away. How does it change them? France has always been defined by two things…two easily identifiable visual signifiers that immediately identify her character. So the easiest way to disrupt her status quo…is to take her breasts away.
This is a HUGE change for France, who struggles with doubt, body dysmorphia, and humility…but it’s also a change for MEGAN, because now she ALSO loses the thing that most defines her…her rivalry with FRANCE is fundamentally changed by the fact that they are no longer a mirror reflection of each other. They are no longer equal and opposite.
And you see this demonstrated in the narrative…when Megan confronts France for the first time after her reduction, France is unable to resist her. She caves immediately. She’s intimidated for the first time since, what…highschool maybe? She’s invested so much in the idea of Big Breasts equalling power and status, that she cannot help but project that idea onto Megan…and become submissive to her.
Similarly, Megan cannot help but feel compelled to DOMINATE her former rival in the same way. She feels such POWER over France, and it excites her…the ability to control and command her rival with little effort. It’s so intoxicating to her that she cannot help but return to pay France back for that time in the hotel, evening the score between them.
THEN…there is BWL-747 and BSF-543.
Look at how these two stories are structured; in 747 Megan starts out completely in control, and dominates through most of the match…France is powerless, just as she was before. THEN…there is a twist, and France comes back and BEATS Megan.
And over in 543, France confronts Megan, triumphant, ready to regain some agency in her life and return to the status quo, and initially it seems like she is successful…but Megan realizes that this is NOT the status quo. That they are still NOT equal…and she DOMINATES France while being SUBMISSIVE to her!
It’s…STUNNING! I’ve never seen anything like this before! Taunting France while she FUCKS HER OWN ASS. Making France feel POWERLESS even while she has the DOMINANT position.
These two stories…are MIRRORS of each other, even while they are asymmetrical…
JUST. LIKE. FRANCE. AND. MEGAN!
This is…maybe the best comics work I’ve seen from Entropy and Sherlock. It’s thematically and visually TIGHT AS HELL. They use every ASPECT of the story and how it’s told to enforce the abstract idea established all the way back in that first story; the idea of a MIRROR REFLECTION.
I know I am hugely and obviously biased because I’ve made it no secret over the years that Megan is my favorite character and that France/Megan stories are my favorite stories, but I really feel like some of their BEST work is on these characters.
And I thank them for it.
Damn dude
An aside I’d love to see a story like the dream ones where France fights a “darker version” of herself that represents her fear, self doubt & Self hatred.
She wins and becomes stronger and becomes the France of old (Not straight away obviously)
I feel like that’s already happening with Megan, thought I certainly am not against seeing such a thing!