What Honorific?
• Headspaces
We settled on ‘Goddess’ as the main honorific for me when we play. This was something that Richard had initiated but it sounded so heartfelt in his slightly breathless American accent that I decided to stick with it.
I have to admit, I like ‘Mistress’ despite it’s tainted reputation. It simply sounds so sweet with it’s double sibilant ‘s’, and it conjures up a lot of pleasing classical imagery.
I do dislike any trace of phoniness, though. Goddess is something I feel fits closer to what I am all of the time, since I am attractive and creative, and I feel comfortable with it. I guess the fact that he’s captive to my charm but I don’t rule or organize his life on a large extent (apart from indirectly) makes Goddess seem more appropriate than Mistress.
One thought that occurred to me was to have him use Mistress when I am punishing him, and Goddess at other times. This fits us well, now that I think about it. For a start, pet dislikes Mistress more, and secondly, we both want an excuse to change the honorific in a significant way and this provides a vehicle for that - knowing he’s being punished he should know to switch terminology and if he forgets, well…
This is all stuff for further down the road. Right now my mind is more concerned with getting re-acquainted with using the various instruments well and finding my feet (on the back of his neck) again.