#(overt. in /his/ mind. chaining dream's arms over his head for a day isn't /punishment/ wdym)

[dr3amofagame]

one random thing that ive always thought about relating to jmah au is that kneeling is kinda lame torture/punishment when done for a long period of time, because it has very rapidly diminishing pain returns. ten minutes in, your legs go numb, and then it doesn't hurt unless you make it worse by moving around. the worst part is getting up. sam making dream kneel and then leaving for ten hours straight is less painful than back to back thiry minute increments with standing in between.

mmhm mmhm -- mostly because well, the kneeling isn't meant to be a punishment. sam doesn't see it as such, and so he's not really thinking of it to optimize dream's pain or discomfort as much as he's just enamored with the image of dream on his knees for him whooo said that. like the kneeling is just a more subtle version of the bowing that he can therefore demand basically at all times without question.

this isn't to say that dream is uuuusually just left to kneel alone--stress positions are used that sam dtefinitely means more as punishment though he would never consider them torture, and oftentimes the kneeling is accompanied by the dispensers where he's expected to keep himself still, etc. when he leaves, dream isn't explicitly supposed to be kneeling the whole time without moving...but he's also not explicitly not supposed to, and dream comes to expect that sam kinda likes it when he's exactly in the same place in the cell every time sam comes back without moving.

but yeah--the kneeling is always more about obedience + uhmm submission to sam more than it's supposed to be outright painful for dream -- do what i say when i say it without question and whatever. so to answer your question, yeah it IS kinda lame but have you considered that sam weally wikes it 🥺👉👈