Incest / Father Son / Japanese / CD/TS

[VerbalAbuse]

I've recently seen a Japanese (old) movie, featuring the well know Peter gay entertainer.

Peter plays a CD/TS -- the preferred term in the period was "gay boy".

Inadvertently, the character gets into a relationship with his own father. Again, neither are aware.

And since this is a Japanese movie, it has to be tragedy. When father learns, he kills himself. Then the main character does.

So, I've thought. What if the story is turned on its head? The characters learn soon enough or they know it from the start. And they're not particularly concerned with it. Not to the point they contemplate suicide.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Honestly, I don't buy it. I like stories to at least be plausible. I don't think this one really is.
So if the son is TS, then I'll buy that dad doesn't recognize him/her. But the son would recognize his father and if he didn't it means dad wasn't in his life at all. So when they figure out their connection there will be emotions to contend with. A lot of very deep, repressed emotions on both sides. The idea that they could go "eh whatever" and begin a romantic relationship, is hard for me to imagine.

If you want a personal connection, that could more easily turn romantic, how about a therapist/patient? Perhaps Peter was in therapy as a teen dealing with his emerging sexuality and gender issues, he saw a therapist who helped him realize who he really is and it gave him the confidence to be that person.

They meet years later in a club and hit it off. The therapist has just ended a years-long relationship and is sort of on the rebound, and Peter remembers the man with such gratitude and affection, that he just can't help himself.

In any case. As a story, both TS and incest are hard to mix here, because someone who's reading TS, likely isn't looking for incest and vice versa. And will likely be put off by their inclusion.

Good luck with your story.

 

[VerbalAbuse]

Well, I was noting the movie as the inspiration.

Indeed, the father left the family when the son was very young.

 

[NegateGivity]

So they don't know until mid point in the story? Like for example son finds a familiar picture he recognizes, of him and his mother, but this one is expanded to have his older boyfriend with his mother. So he realizes that his now lover is actually his father. Now they have a dilemma, does he give up the twisted fatherly love he has been receiving, by telling his father? Or does he keep it a secret?