I'm enjoying this series but I feel like Tim is underwritten or confusingly written.

He enters into a sexual relationship very quickly with Hawk which...yes yes ok Matt Bomer, not many people would say no to him lol. But Tim is also plagued by religious guilt and, as far as he's said, only had one other lover who was a priest at his church (which is yikes anyway, I know they were close in age but that's still a dicey power imbalance). He is naive and almost childlike with the milk drinking/general wide-eyed perspective of the world. He has to be taught how to be more cunning in the workplace. He also doesn't seem to understand that open doorways are not in fact hiding places and that people can see you eavesdropping when you literally just stand there staring at them lol.

I find it a bit unbelievable that he just seamlessly enters a dom/sub relationship with Hawk so quickly without any kind of questioning or discussion. I really thought in the scene where they eat supper together there'd be some sort of talk about what they were going to do. Are we to interpret as he's blindly following Hawk's lead sexually? Does he understand the tying up, the "my boy/skippy", "you belong to me" and the cufflinks/ownership stuff all as their ongoing D/s roleplay, or is he taking it all 100% seriously? Is that why he continually gets upset when Hawk won't open up or show much affection/commitment? Because he can't even grasp what a casual sexual arrangement generally is? Does he just think "we're in love now and this is how love works"? Rewatching the first episode, I was confused by how quickly Tim got mad at the thought of Hawk potentially getting engaged. He and Tim had only just begun with each other, and Tim surely understands the need for bearding and for Hawk to stay "undercover"?

I can see that Marcus/Frankie are supposed to be the opposite of Hawk/Tim in that they have much better communication and a better dynamic overall which is why they stayed together the whole time. I just feel like Hawk/Tim had basically NO communication about their own relationship dynamic, particularly the somewhat complicated/layered sex stuff because I think Tim would have to be naive to it like he is with literally everything else. Yes lust speaks louder than logic etc but...the characters and their actions still have to make some sense. I understand Hawk's internal struggle but I feel like Tim's jumps all over the place.