M Dere

"M Dere" is a term for a character who has deredere feelings for their love interest and likes being humiliated and toyed with by them. They want their love interest to playfully tease them or force them to do humiliating intimate acts because they enjoy the pleasure they get from being submissive and letting them have control. They are very perverted and want their love interest to do things such as spanking them, being rough with them, talking down to them, or even "punishing" them for being naughty. During moments where they are not doing these more intimate acts they will be very loving and overly affectionate.
They are the counterpart and compatibility of S Dere.
== Etymology ==
=== Meaning of the Term ===
M Dere (えむデレ) is a combination of "M", an abbreviation of the word "mazohisuto" (マゾヒスト) meaning "a person who derives pleasure from their own humiliation", and "deredere" (デレデレ), a mimetic word for "being lovestruck".
In Japan, mentions of the word "mazohisuto" (マゾヒスト) are almost always replaced with the letter "M", either for censorship reasons or to be more eye-catching.
=== Origin ===
The term originates from the 2019 erotic manga series Petal Maiden by Summer Cherry Blossom, from the 10th chapter titled "Do M Dere" where it was used to describe the character Nanano Nanase. In the chapter, Nanano asks her boyfriend to humiliate and dominate her in various erotic ways. This includes being very rough with her while the two are being intimate, such as pinning her down or spanking her, and even making her do pleasureable things in public while trying not to get caught. Nanano is someone who relinquished complete control of her pleasure over to her boyfriend and can even be seen visually having lovestruck heart eyes while he's dominating her. During moments when they're not doing these acts she is very loving and affectionate and the two of them even had a cute lunch date together at school.
=== Localization ===
M Dere is also unofficially known by the name "masodere" in the Western community. This term comes from the English word "masochist".
== Personality ==
An M dere character is a submissive person who enjoys and takes pleasure in being humiliated and teased by their love interest. They want them to talk down to them or toy with them because they enjoy the pleasure they get from being submissive and letting their love interest have control. They love being told what to do by their love interest. They behave similarly to a more perverted and submissive deredere character.
The level of masochistic traits can depend on the individual. Some just like the feeling of their partner taking control. They like the feeling of their body being in the hands of someone else and being dominated by the one they love. Some like to be verbally humiliated, while others like physical humiliation as well and gain pleasure from the embarrassment.
M dere characters want their love interest to talk down to them in a teasing manner and force them to do humiliating acts, such as licking their feet or being used as a chair. On the more extreme end, some M dere want to be a pet slave to their love interest and want to hand total control over to them. They will call their partner their "master" and may even wear a dog collar for them.
M dere characters do not hate themselves nor do they want to be badly harmed, as they are still M in a deredere (overly affectionate) kind of way. They just enjoy the feeling of being controlled by the one they love. While they do enjoy being toyed with by their love interest, they still deeply care about them and want them both to have a safe experience while doing these acts.
M dere characters only like it when it comes from their love interest because they have deredere feelings for them and they won't let anyone else do this to them. They want to be loved by them and to feel them having complete control over them. To them, this is a way of showing their affection and their loyalty and they won't do it for anyone else. They may even hide this side of themselves away because it can be considered very vulnerable, so they may only share this side with their love interest after gaining complete trust in them to care of them while doing these acts.
M dere characters are the perfect match with S dere characters. While both love humiliation, S dere characters enjoy inflicting this "on" their love interest, while M dere characters enjoy when this is inflicted on themselves "by" their love interest. M dere is all about relinquishing control to their love interest, while S dere is all about taking control over their love interest.
If their love interest is not already an S dere character they may even playfully tease them by constantly asking them to "punish them", often to the embarrassment of their love interest. They may tease their love interest by calling them their "master" or may even bend over and flirtatiously ask them to spank them. Most typically, if their love interest loves them enough they will "pretend" to be an S dere to please them.
Because of their submissive nature, an M dere characters will lean on their love interest to protect and take care of them.
== Differences From Other Archetypes ==
Some M dere characters will pretend to be wandere, but to a more extreme literal sense. The difference is wandere characters pretend to be dogs in a playful, overly happy, and affectionate sense, while M dere characters want to be "treated" like a dog. They want to be forced to wear a leash and be told what to do by their love interest/master. They want to let total control over their self be in the hands of the one they love.
== Similar Japanese Archetypes ==
* Erodere: A term for a character who will act erotic at first, but will become extremely embarrassed after experiencing true affection.
* S Dere: A term for a character who enjoys playing with the feelings of their love interest.
* Wandere: A term for a character who acts like a dog toward their love interest.
== List of Characters ==
See M Dere/Japanese Characters to see characters from Japanese media.
See M Dere/Non-Japanese Characters to see characters from non-Japanese media.
== Gallery ==
M Dere Gallery.png|link=M Dere/Gallery
Darkness Maso 3.gif|Darkness from Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Syukufuku wo!
Virgo from FAIRY TAIL.gif|Virgo from FAIRY TAIL
Ruby Toujo from Rosario to Vampire.jpg|Ruby Toujo from Rosario + Vampire
Izumi Miyamura with Kyouko Hori from Horimiya 2.png|Kyouko Hori with Izumi Miyamura from Horimiya
Ekaterina Kraeva and Hana Katsuragi from The Qwaser of Stigmata.png|Hana Katsuragi with Ekaterina Kraeva from Seikon no Qwaser
Iku Sutou from 100 Girlfriends.png|Iku Sutou from Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo
== References ==
Category:Romantic
Category:Teasing