Phew! :wipes brow: Glad that the set up is enjoyable, though I know eventually I should go through and do some editing. ;)
I'd taken that comment you quoted as the whole basis for my story: that he's *not* ashamed of it at all; they definitely bucked the trend and he doesn't apologize for it, and it really does scar him for his harish life post-Vaysh. And since you're more familiar with this than I am, I'm going to have Vaysh be killed (because Ashmael says he dies in his arms, right??!), do we have any kind of actual year chronology of how many years Wraeththu have been in existance before Pellaz is incepted? To my imagination, I'm going to have Ashmael and Vaysh have only been har for 5 years before being summoned to Immanion. Or Ashmael, anyway. I'll just email you and you can let me know your thoughts, lol!!
I would imagine that this idealism about the emtional aspect of relationships and not being exclusive would have been quite... fervent in the early days, before they all got a dose of reality.
Well… I do wonder about that, because Cal apologizes to Pell at Saltrock when he gets called to participate in Grissecon, and he says that while many people are paired up, they can't afford to stay that way. Which, to my mind, means that they (first generation, anyway) did still instinctively pair off, even if it wasn't sexually exclusive.
Yeah, I've been giving this a whole lot of thought, but I'll email you and ramble there! :)
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I'd taken that comment you quoted as the whole basis for my story: that he's *not* ashamed of it at all; they definitely bucked the trend and he doesn't apologize for it, and it really does scar him for his harish life post-Vaysh. And since you're more familiar with this than I am, I'm going to have Vaysh be killed (because Ashmael says he dies in his arms, right??!), do we have any kind of actual year chronology of how many years Wraeththu have been in existance before Pellaz is incepted? To my imagination, I'm going to have Ashmael and Vaysh have only been har for 5 years before being summoned to Immanion. Or Ashmael, anyway. I'll just email you and you can let me know your thoughts, lol!!
I would imagine that this idealism about the emtional aspect of relationships and not being exclusive would have been quite... fervent in the early days, before they all got a dose of reality.
Well… I do wonder about that, because Cal apologizes to Pell at Saltrock when he gets called to participate in Grissecon, and he says that while many people are paired up, they can't afford to stay that way. Which, to my mind, means that they (first generation, anyway) did still instinctively pair off, even if it wasn't sexually exclusive.
Yeah, I've been giving this a whole lot of thought, but I'll email you and ramble there! :)