Heh, if it was completely inspired by the Esquire article, Jon would be convinced he was the hero, and Stephen would thank him for being so nice to him.

I think needy!bottom!"Stephen" works because he buys into the seme/uke stuff, and the symbolism of it feeds right into his kinks.

Yep, yep. You have to wonder how much of his preferencing for bottoming is what he enjoys and how much is his rigid views of the way things should be.

I was re-reading State of Grace the other day and there was the scene where they were talking about intercourse and Stephen was all "You toss to me, not the other way around!"

Here, he's getting used and controlled more than enough to negate any sense of power he might have gotten from topping, so it still works out in the end.

Yep, and he had to perform oral sex, which YMMV on, but reads as pretty demeaning to me.

You write good evil!Jon, but I can't read too much of it. :D