Character woes

Do you ever write characters who just flatly refuse to do what you need?

I’m 21k words into a story which was meant to be slash, and these guys just refuse to get with the plan.

I mean, I get it. It was meant to be an enemies-to-lovers arc which isn’t my strong suit and maybe I went too all-in on the enemies bit, but man this is annoying.

I even wrote a hot tub scene, for gods’ sakes, and he’s like “nope, I’ll look, but I ain’t gonna touch”.

What, did everyone fictional turn straight while I was away?

(Enigmatic icon choice because I don’t want to give away the fandom…yet *wink*)