Bottom Jared: I guess for me I have a hard time envisioning Jared as a bottom mostly because I just don't see him as a kind of character who would willingly bottom for an extended amount of time. I guess that's where a lot of fics with bottom Jared go wrong for me because I just don't buy their portrayal of Jared being this needy bottom who always wants to be screwed. I don't believe the man wants to be penetrated and the author doesn't create a large enough incentive to make it work or make it credible. He just seems to want it, well why? What makes Jared want it? Safe to say I just don't buy it.
The man is just so assertive and extroverted in everything that he does and in generally is so very dominant in all the things that he does why would he feel the need to want to be penetrated? I just don't see him as being this person who would want to bottom all the time. I could see him experimenting with it if his partner pushed for it a couple of times or even see him being curious. But I can't believe that he would want to exclusively bottom and not want to penetrate his partner. That's just not believable. I find that to be even less believable when Jensen is made out to be the top in their relationship. Specifically because Jared always takes the lead in their relationship and always initiates contact with Jensen. He leads and Jensen follows be it in conversations at conventions, photo pictures and interviews, etc. Jared just seems to always lead. So how can I buy that all of the sudden Jensen calls the shots in their bedroom?
I can buy a character like JDM making Jared want it, but that is because their is an authority figure here that I believe JDM is able to work with, and it's that daddy figure and pronounced experience that would make Jared want to try bottoming. But I can't buy that with Jensen/Jared or J2 because I don't think Jensen has that much pronounced experience, expertise and sexual deviance over Jared.
As to his stature. The man is 6'5 tall and is built like a mountain, he can bench press well over 200 pounds since I don't buy that Jared would want it I have an equally hard time believing that a character could force him into it. There is pretty much no one in the CWRPS that could physically force Jared into much of anything. So how am I supposed to believe that Jensen could make Jared submit to him? The only way I could see Jared bottoming by force is if he was ill/sick, de-aged, physically injured, sleeping or if he was incapacitated in another way like being tied up.
Which brings me to the next point. From what I have read from most bottom Jared fics they usually have Jared incapacitated in some way which I understand the reason for. They need to find some way to weaken the dominant hold of a stronger Jared in order to make the other character top. They usually try to remove Jared's strength in numerous ways in order to make the other character top him. They will make him lower of social status, take away his out going nature, make him incredibly young or they will weaken his muscle development. Virtually stripping him of his powerful figure in an attempt to make him more recessive and softer. They need to weaken Jared in order to make him vulnerable for the other character to be dominant over him. Which isn't my cup of tea at all. I don't want to read Jared being hurt, drugged or beaten which is why I usually don't read bottom Jared fics