Oh look! The Pretty is being tortured!

[dangermousie]

Tamahome! Getting whipped into unconsciousness! Because he tried to escape when he heard Miaka was dying (after turning himself in to the bad guys to save villages blah blah because Yui, the evil priestess and Miaka's former best friend wants him for boy toy) and maybe I am sick, but I am thinking there is the whole thing between him and the bad guy, Nakago, where Nakago is really up for some non-con sex with the Pretty as a humiliation tool. When Tamahome is brought in at first, Nakago is is all 'I like you because you could lay a hit on me' and he slaps him and the whole interaction isn't dispassionate enemies or anything but comes across as Nakago would really enjoy some twisted twisted stuff with him as a further way to break him.

So after the attempted escape, Nakago is all 'you offered yourself as a tribute, we must teach your body to be obedient' (!!!!!!!!!!) so I am sorry, it's not just me being sick. Not quite. And then the next thing we see is Tamahome tied up in a dungeon, without a shirt, being whipped into uncosciousness by Nakago who is all 'I am just teaching you obedience blah blah you live only to please Yui blah blah." and there are burly shirtless guys besides Nakago there too. And Nakago is really having a good time, in a really creepy-crawling my skin kinda way. Seriously, it came across less as a whipping-as-pure-punishment and more like they were trying to train him through s&m and getting off on it.

Somebody up there likes me.

Yes, I am sick.