Archetypes in Dominance... Servant Mistress Series

Archetype 

[ahr-ki-type] 

noun

A universal pattern of behavior that motivates everything we do.

There are several archetypes of Dominants... let's take a look at a few here today.

Predator: 

The Predator Dominant is a hunter. They are primal, animalistic, and often ancestral. The Predator Dominant hunts what they need to fulfill their desires, devouring them on some level with the intent to exploit, rob, plunder and pillage their body, mind, heart and soul.. They can be very territorial over their prey.

Mistress:

The Mistress archetype is about skillfully using other people as tools. They try to define what sort of tool a person is. What are their skills and talents, including those skills still untapped? What are areas in which they could improve with training, and what would they be wasted in attempting to do? How can this person be put to useful work that smooths their edges, heightens their talents, and betters both them and their environment? Good Mistress' see their servants as resources, and a wise Mistress does not waste resources.

Owner:

the Owner hat pulls us to see our human property as things   Being an owner is different from being a master, and not only in degree. To have sole and complete responsibility for the body, mind, heart, and soul of another competent adult is amazing and terrifying. It's not like children who will (ideally) grow up and leave, or a mentally disabled adult who would do so if it were possible. It is a level of possessiveness that can be intoxicating, and must be handled carefully.

Trainer:

The Trainer differs from the Owner. The submissive is being prepared to serve someone else, generally another Owner so it's assumed that a Trainer's care is temporary. In some cases, a Dominant may play both roles, training their own slave, but there's usually some thought somewhere that eventually the submissive will be fully trained and the trainer archetype will no longer be needed in that interaction. I find it sad when the D/s pair don't look that far ahead...  what happens when a trainer has done all they can with a submissive?  Often at this point a D/s will crumble if not properly prepared for.  I should mention too that the role of Trainer is so much more service-oriented than other archetypes. While they are unquestionably in charge, their entire attention is focused on the submissive, creating a curriculum that will best bring out the slave's good qualities and polish their flaws. (The trainer-top is a favorite dream of many submissives for that reason; the archetype promises not only self-improvement but lots of attention.) 

Mommy:

Parents have a lot more authority over their children than any adult has over any other competent adult, yet they don't own them, exactly (so it's a fine line between Mistress and Owner). They are responsible for teaching them many life skills, but they aren't a formal teacher. They nurture their children, and are more physically affectionate with them, than the average Mistress figure. Although they can punish and discipline, they also need to be a lap and a shoulder when times get tough.  Most importantly, they spend a lot more time caring for and doing for their charges than any other top archetype.

Again these are simply a few, the more common of the archetypes.  I've purposely omitted some that I just don't care to indulge or that are so obscure that for this post they would be irrelevant.  

So what is Miss Manda?  Where do I fall in these archetypes?  I can tell you, I take a bit from each archetype but the best way to sum Me up (and generalize if you must) is to classify Me as a Servant Mistress.... So what is a Servant Mistress?  I hope to explore that with you over the next week.  As a beautiful rose unfolds so will our understanding of the driving forces that spur to motivate Me.