Sexuality & Gender
Final post for today because this means I’m all caught up!! Once I finish this post, I’ll go through and add all of my posts to the /ehkv page! I would also like to say I think a lot of the stuff that went into the making of the different views on sexuality is what i think worked best with the ruler of each country. Xazexa needs a society that’s going to support her sexuality while the characters of Fadaya and Auwa both have more to gain development wise if they come from stricter/less supportive backgrounds.
Fokuts: Gender means very little to a group of people who all wear the same type of clothings, which is a skirt and jewelry. In general, they are also the people most comfortable with nakedness in a nonsexual context. They tend to be a group of people who is very serious about monogamy, only because of the complicated clan system they live in.
Nizid: While most people are pretty chill with frank discussions of sex and sexuality (winters are long and cold and lonely), the most elite in the society have strict rules about when and how sexuality of any type can be expressed. They have stricter gender roles than Fokuts but they are accepting of any non-cis person within their society and non-binary people have their own class of expectations and fashions they adhere to especially in the higher castes.
Chaum: If any group is ‘bad’ about queer people, its Chaum. Most of their Segregation Laws specifically targeted straight couples but also ratified straight couples as the basic default. But with the removal of the segregation laws, queer couples have found more safety within society. Of all three countries, they have the strictest gender roles, with their federal level government comprised more of men than women, but they do have basically equal representation on a local level.
