#beta sector

Aww thanks hun! I really appreciate the kind words <3

As for coming up with aus, honestly it’s me looking changing one aspect of a verse, and seeing what kind of effects it has on the rest of the plot and the characters and stuff.

Like, I know what I like to see in a fandom, what kind of character and relationship dynamics I like and etc. And then I think, okay, what do I have to change to make it work out like this? It’s almost like a puzzle, you know?

I’ve always said that one of my absolute favourite things about the Earth girl trilogy is Beta Sector. It just has such a rich and vibrant culture, and I really love that they’ve built their society around family and mutual support and respect. I absolutely love their clan system, and I love that triad marriages are common, I love that it has no nudity taboo. Like, that is the future I want, you know? 

Seeing Jarra connect with her family throughout the series, and seeing her discovering her roots is just so special, and it really fascinated me to think just how much things would have changed if she had ended up at University Zeus or University Artemis, you know? We could have been exposed to so much more of the true Beta Sector beyond the stereotypes that the other sectors have about them. Like I loved learning about the military clans, but what’s it like for other clans?

Beta Sector was at the heart of the revolution in the third book, so how would the atmosphere have been when Dalmora showed her father’s video about the tragedy on Artemis and the class was mostly Betan? How would the class have reacted to Jarra’s presentation and betrothal ceremony being interrupted by outlanders? There’s just so much potential, you know?

oh wow, I hadn’t even thought about how Lolia and Lolmack would have reacted when they found out that Jarra was from the Tell clan!!

They’d probably panic a lot at first, remembering the way they’d treated her on the first day, the inappropriate jokes Lolmack had made. He could be thrown out of his clan for talking to a daughter of Tellon Blaze that way, forget about the whole thing with Lolette.

They’re on pins and needles for a week afterwards, but Jarra keeps treating them the same way she always has, and they take that as her saying she just wants to be treated normally. If she had wanted to be treated like a noble, she would have let them know from the very first day that she was in the Tell Clan, right? And she certainly wouldn’t have been so civil to them. People often treat those from gutter clans like they’re trash, but it looks like the gentes maoires is different, they’re above such pettiness.

Now I have to constantly craft/stand near campfires or risk freezing to death.