text; un: cherrypit

[polterguide]

Name: Bailey Morello
Date: 9/2
Format: text
Warnings: Mentions of sex & pregnancy, b/c I know that makes some people Uncomfy.

So it's pretty obvious that being here changes people in ways that can sometimes be hard to expect, what with all the magic and monstrous traits but does anyone know if there are impacts on other biological functions?

Like...

Well.

[God, how do they say this without giving up the ghost entirely. They can't just come out and SAY things. They would rather die.]

Does being undead impact what vampires are capable of? Do the animalistic traits of most other monsters impact other physical aspects besides what's visible? Turning into a monster is basically like going through some bizarro puberty so, like. What's up with that?



Basically I'm asking if monsters can get pregnant or do they become infertile like some of the hybrids that exist in real life - obviously native ones aren't but does being something else before change that?

[Now it's time to go hide in shame and embarrassment and try not to think about the turn their life has taken.]

Comments

[rollfordiplomacy]

What precautions for what accidents?

[oh lord here we go]

[faithlikeaseed]

[oh maker here we go]

Accidental pregnancies?

[do they...just call them something else on myddvai...or has myr stumbled into the Weird Zone once more]

[rollfordiplomacy]

[the absolute confidence for which Everett types these words would knock someone off their feet]

That could not possibly occur, that would be horrifying.

[faithlikeaseed]

[weird zone it is]

Oh

We need to talk about this one in person dearheart I think

[rollfordiplomacy]

What is there to talk about? That can't be possible.

I would certainly have a throng of children if so.

[weird flex, but okay]

[faithlikeaseed]

[ohhhh nooooooooo]

It's regrettably very possible on Thedas for a woman to become pregnant against her wishes

[rollfordiplomacy]

Horrible! That is true horror. And why only women?

No, don't answer that. I don't want to know.

This is a terrible thing to learn about. I want to go back to my blissful ignorance.

[thanks he hates it!!]

[faithlikeaseed]

Why only

Do men also bear children on Myddvai

??

[well at least you've horrified each other now, boys]

[rollfordiplomacy]

In certain circumstances, of course they can. Some men are born with female traits. Then there are the Mermaids and Rahuth, where it is quite common!

Does this not happen other places?

[polterguide]

[oh no what is happening]

I mean, it’s not great, but it happens. A lot. Like, way too much.

[rollfordiplomacy]

This cannot be a serious assertion. There would be so many unwanted children!

[polterguide]

Yeah, that’s why adoption exists.

[rollfordiplomacy]

My people adopt all their children! Keeping the children you have is seen as prideful.

They still don't happen on accident!

[Everett was adopted but almost all Springtide are, they have a weird system like everything else in Myddvai....]

[polterguide]

[Oh...

They didn’t sign up for this...]

It seems there’s a major difference in cultures going on here because that’s not how it works at all where I’m from. Folks just get pregnant all the time and sometimes they weren’t planning on it.

[rollfordiplomacy]

[sorry fam]

Yes, quite a major difference!

If it puts you at any ease, I have not had an issue with any accidental children.

And clearly I would not know better to have been careful over the last year.

-/dropping in

[bergamotrose]

Sir Everett,

Is this truly not a matter among your people? A great many young Nobles in Fodlan would appreciate if such were true in our homeland!

[rollfordiplomacy]

[no niceties when Everett is SO DISTRAUGHT]

Certainly not! Children can only spring from those who wish to have a child. Perhaps not to raise that child together, my people do not as such, but it can't merely happen! Out of random chance? This sounds wildly absurd.

[bergamotrose]

Such is the norm in my land, Sir Everett.

Any intimate coupling can result in children. For people with certain magics in their blood, such as myself and those decent from other Noble families, this can lead to a certain.. complexity where women in the villages hope to couple with Nobles and bear their children in an attempt to raise their financial and social status.

That is just one example. There are additionally situations where women carry children against their wishes and other such acts that are simply cruel and abusive. This is a ... difficult matter, to put it delicately.

This was also why, in my prior attempts to find a wife when I was younger, I never made such overt moves on a woman without her knowing consent. While I may have shamed myself with how hard I pushed at times, going further was unthinkable. Beyond ruining both of our reputations... bastard children are not taken kindly in the circles of high society.

[rollfordiplomacy]

No such situations can occur in Myddvai! Majesty Ygrayne oversees the creation of new life through her magic. Perhaps that is the difference? That a Deity of my land is interfering-? And with fine reason! She could never allow such inequity and cruelty.

I'm unsure if this applies to us Mirrorbound or to the natives of this world. I certainly didn't think to fret!

[he will now tho]

[bergamotrose]

Perhaps that is the case. Despite what others from my realm may say, the reigning Deity of our lands has not seen fit to intervene on our behalf for over two millennia. Even if she does exist, I cannot say that I place much... Faith in her.

[Sorry, Everett. Even when faced with the mortal incarnation of his culture's Goddess, your protege is a simple atheist.]

Once more, your Myddvai is sounding more and more ideal compared to other realms. I find myself jealous that you can lead your life as you do without fear of unnecessary consequences that affect more than just yourself and your actions.

Can’t help it, popping in | un: hector

[petcromancer]

what the fuck??

[rollfordiplomacy]

Mind your language. But also yes, my feelings exactly.

If it worked such a way for us, we'd be the first to know.

[because the fauns be bangin all the time]

[petcromancer]

there is so much wrong with this

the biology

and who would want to have a child??

[stop breaking Hector’s brain pls]

[rollfordiplomacy]

It had very little to do with biology, in my world

I supposed it's quite obvious such magic would not transfer through the mirror, now that I think to think upon it

Though not my own, I took care of a child for many years, remember? There was plenty of joy to it, my dear Hector

[in large part because his world isn't horrible all the time always, like most places seem to be]

[petcromancer]

there’s a world of difference between helping take care of a child and having your own.

do you want to have a child?

[That’s something that Hector can’t give Everett as far as he knows]