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It's funny to me how, completely unplanned, my two sons turned out to be at the very extreme ends of some queer spectrum...

Liam & Jack by @whumpinmyboys

Sarah & Dani by @whumpyourdamnpears

Evangeline & Callisto by @acelightningwhumper

I've just read the story about him going undercover in a hospital and suddenly wondered: what if Kev lost his memories for real?

How much of his training is so hardwired into him that it would still have effect without any memories to go with? Would you prefer it if he had just undergone NR and therefore has no scars or wounds on him,so basically nothing to piece his own story back together or would you want him to look into the mirror for the first time (that he remembers) and be shocked about how riddled his body is with scars that have long healed but prove that he's been hurt over and over and over again.

Would he be able to trust someone who tries to help or would he be completely paranoid?

(I kind of want him to be held by someone nice, someone who really wants what's best for him and who could make him let go of everything, just for a moment - but I know that wouldn't happen in his current Living weapon state so...amnesia maybe?)

P.s. I'd also like to know what Ghostfever is, as I haven't found an explanation so far and am too curious for my own good ;)

Have a nice day! 🌟

Hello hello! You can always ask, yes! Random questions about the boy make me happy ✨

Oh that is a question for the ages!

I believe even with total amnesia, his training would still be very hardwired. He'd intuitively keep being hyperaware of his surroundings, and many fighting reflexes would come second nature to him.

It's unlikely he'd be full of scars, because every time that happens he does go through NR (can't risk that kind of sleeper damage accumulating and hindering him at the wrong time!). I think it's actually more fun when he has no signs, and the abuse must be pieced together by his reactions instead, with no easy marks for everyone to see. I like how it's a representation of how his trauma works: it's not immediately visible, he can even seem perfectly functional, spotless, until you sit down and pay attention.

He would be extremely wary and hard to trust, because that kind of conditioning doesn't get reset just because you forgot the reason for it. But he can learn!

Your wish will be granted, at some point :) He'll fight it, more with invisible internal barriers than literally, but one day... 🥺

chatty characters pale-faced and silent

quiet and reserved characters rambling deliriously

character who always resorts to humour clearly trying to think of a quip but coming up empty

no-nonsense character so loopy that they can’t stop giggling

a stoic character’s hands trembling in panic

an easily frightened character so far out of it that they aren’t aware of what’s happening to them, much less afraid

intelligent characters who can’t think straight

protective (self-sacrificial) characters letting someone else take the fall for them because they’re too weak to object

patient characters snapping at whoever comes near

affectionate character who wants to be alone

The blorbo you can look to in hard times, and ask yourself what they would do in a situation, and draw motivation from them on how to be better and stronger!

“Dude, you were literally kidnapped and locked in a basement.”

You've talked about how Vekta views a successful warrior's duty to continue his bloodline and thus how it isn't very....welcoming to, say, Khore's aroaceness (am i remembering this right). But like 👀 do we know how they view other forms of queerness? Not just idk homosexuality but things like transness and genders beyond the binary as well?

All lore asks make me happy! gimme! *grabby hands*

This is a good question I struggled with in the past, but I think I worked out an answer!

As you already know, most people in Vekta are bi, since they're culturally encouraged to explore and there's no stark division between male/female gender roles and what loving one or another says about you.

Fundamentally, who you partner and have children with (so, ensuring the descendance) is not necessarily the same as who you love, which is completely up to you, and not limited to one person.

Especially amongst elites, there's plenty of arranged marriages to try and have the strongest possible heirs. In same sex marriages (and those with fertility issues), they even have tiers: elite families get genetic material donated from elites, warriors from warriors, non-warriors from non-warriors. When heirs prove not up to the task, adoption is also a big thing.

That said, transness.

There's two cases here:

People who are trans within the binary

afab men and amab women are considered perfectly normal. Vektians believe sometimes the soul gets lost and incarnates in the wrong body. Those kids, once ascertained that's the case (usually waiting around puberty), get treatment to transition and full surgery as soon as their body is stabilized, for free like any other kind of healthcare. Both hormone treatment and surgery are very advanced, including scar concealing, and once it's done you would never know by looking.

Trans women can choose to have a womb transplant too, usually donated by trans men, and are able to get pregnant and carry a baby to term (with the ovules of a donor obviously).

Trans men have, let's say, fully functioning hardware.

They don't face different treatment in society, the only obstacle is sometimes shitty parents wanting them to keep their assigned gender because they're good and they want to keep the heir, even knowing it's not really *their* heir. This can put pressure on a kid to not come out.

Of course, surgery + recovery means time away from training, so that can also be a stressful logistical obstacle for those aiming for the top. Some thus choose to wait to do that later in life. In that case, they do face societal pressure to "get in the right lane" soon. Despite the free loving policy, Vekta is based on a very ordered familial structure (hetero or not).

I bet you can guess by now where I'm going with this.

2. Nonbinary people

Unfortunately, that's a no. You don't get to stay outside the ordered structure, you have to pick one - and once you pick it, either fully stay in it or fully transition.

Now, one little saving grace is, since there's no concept of masculinity VS femininity, the problem of not feeling either or in terms of presentation and expected behavior doesn't exist. There's no different dress code or expected behavior in performing one or the other, the difference is purely physical (and which descendance you belong to).

So to suffer from this are the ones who, to feel comfortable with their bodies, would need some surgeries but not others, or only hrt, and/or ones who strongly feel cogender / fluid and need to switch their pronouns accordingly.

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