Uke/Playing With
< Uke
Basic Trope: The more feminine of a Yaoi Guys couple will be the one on the "bottom".
- Straight: Andy is shorter than and more outwardly emotional than his partner Bill, and is usually the "bottom" during sex.
- Exaggerated: Andy is ridiculously pretty and prone to bursting into tears, and doesn't ever take a dominant role in bed.
- Justified: Andy is naturally a sensitive person and happened to wind up in bed with a more traditionally masculine guy.
- Inverted: Seme
- Subverted: Andy is short, emotional and feminine... but still the "pitcher".
- Andy is actually a Bifauxnen.
- Andy is a heterosexual. (This does not necessarily mean he's on top.)
- Double Subverted: ...but his partner is shorter, more emotional, and more feminine.
- Parodied: If it weren't for the sex scenes, you couldn't tell Andy from a screaming female stereotype.
- Bob mind-screwed his He-Man Woman Hater peers that his girlfriend, Alice, is a boy, and points out her girliness is 'his' Uke tendancies.
- Deconstructed: Andy doesn't necessarily want to be on the bottom all the time, but Bill won't do anything but top. Bill also seems to keep his emotions from Andy while Andy regularly shares them. This drives a rift into their relationship and they break up.
- Reconstructed: Andy realizes that he is attracted only to more masculine men and gets back together with Bill.
- Zig Zagged: Andy is a blatantly stereoytpical uke who plays catcher to Bill... but only the first time they have sex. The next time, he tops. After that, he's on the bottom again.
- Averted: You can't tell who's the Uke and who's the Seme if you skip the sex scenes.
- Enforced: "Women are going to be reading Boys Love 99 percent of the time. We need an Audience Surrogate for the female reader. Or maybe somebody they would like to top."
- Lampshaded: "So just because I'm less manly than you, I have to be the "wife"?"
- Invoked: Andy knows Bill is attracted to Ukes, so he purposely acts more like one.
- Defied: Both Andy and Bill are developed believably as round male characters, and their sex scenes aren't shown in the work at all.
- Exploited: To permit girly girl Alice into a He-Man Woman Hater Club, Bob convinces the guys that Alice is a boy, and her girliness is 'him' being the Uke. It worked.
- Discussed: "Hey, Carol, do you think Andy is Bill's uke?"
- Conversed: "Of course Andy's the uke, he's the cute little one."