#lolmack

Oh god are you kidding me? Drago would neeeever risk his baby cousin’s life by taking her up into orbit. One, he loves her too much, and two, he doesn’t want to get murdered by Jaxon’s or the rest of the clan’s hands. 

I really like the idea of Jarra learning betan dialect though!

Imagine that first scene during the meet and greet. Jarra stands up and announces proudly that she’s an Earth Girl, and everyone watches in stunned silence, before the jeering starts. Jarra just ignores it and takes her seat, unaffected. Lolia and Lolmack share a look, slightly impressed. They approach Jarra respectfully, not because of her clan (which they don’t know about yet, because her name is still legally Jarra Reeath until the honor ceremony), but because she’s pretty brave to come onto a course of norms knowing how they’ll treat her, and also because they want her help. They don’t know anything about Earth culture, and they want to learn so that they can help Lolette as much as they can. In secret, they tell her about their daughter, about why they came onto the course, and they ask her for her help.

Jarra is ashamed, because at first she had been wary of them after realizing they were from a gutter clan, but she really comes to admire the lengths these two are going to in order to keep their daughter. They become close friends, and Jarra’s the only one that Lolia and Lolmack talk to without any condescension and who they actually seem to respect.

Then one day after class, Jarra’s sitting in the hall with them and the rest of Team 1, and she gets a call on her lookup.

It’s Drago and Jaxon, who are currently at the same base and who’ve just found out that they’ll be going on shore leave soon. As soon as Jarra picks up the call, they start babbling at her in dialect, so excited about seeing her again when they come to visit, and wanting to meet her school friends and see where she’s studying and just having fun together. They only have a few minutes to talk and let her know when they’ll be there and get the portal codes from her before they have to leave again.

When Jarra hangs up the call, all her friends are staring at her like she’s grown a second head.

Krath, ever the tactless one, is the first one to speak. “I didn’t know Earth had a dialect!” he says. “I thought you just spoke standard Language!”

“We do,” Jarra confirms.

“That was Betan dialect,” Lolmack speaks up, and he looks totally dazed, like he can’t understand what’s going on. “I understood most of what she said, though there did seem to be some planet-specific slang that’s different from what we have on Artemis.”

He shoots Jarra a confused look, and she laughs sheepishly. “Yeah, I guess I forgot to mention that my family is from Beta sector,” she says. “Our clan hall is on Zeus, and I’ve been learning dialect from my brothers whenever they call or visit.”

“But Jarra, I thought you grew up as a ward of hospital Earth,” Dalmora says, curious.

Jarra shrugs. “I did. At 14, wards of hospital Earth are given the option to contact their birth families if they want. I took up that option, and I was one of the lucky few whose family actually want a relationship with her.” Then, she looks down shyly and her smile becomes delicate. “When I was 16 they even presented me to the clan.”

There’s a watery gasp from Lolia, who looks like she’s about to start crying any second now. “Oh, is that really true Jarra?” she asks, voice hopeful. “Your clan really gave you full membership? Lolmack, do you think-?”

Lolmack places a hand on her arm. “Don’t get your hopes too high, Lolia. One single clan granting membership to a Handicapped baby isn’t going to help us. In fact, it’s more likely to make them lose status.” And then, his gaze turning suspicious, he says, “Besides, Jarra doesn’t have a clan prefix in her name.”

Jarra shrugs again. “My parents gave up all guardianship rights to me when they made me a ward of hospital Earth. Under Hospital Earth law, I wasn’t able to change my name until I turned 18, and since my name will be changing again when the honor ceremony happens anyways, we decided to keep my Hospital Earth name until then. Under Beta sector law though, my name-”

“Honor ceremony?” Lolmack cuts in, his voice sharp. Lolia’s eyes have gone wide. “And your brothers mentioned something about shore leave during their phone call. Jarra...is your clan in the military alliance?”

“Yeah,” Jarra replies nonchalantly. “Like I was saying, my name has been Jarra Tellona Feren since my presentation ceremony.”

There are twin gasps of horror from Lolia and Lolmack, and they immediately jump back as if they’ve been burned.

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.

Lol Raven’s the kinda guy who would just LOVE to listen to his girls infodumping about history. He’d hang off their every word. And they do the same with him about horror vids. They all support each others’ special interests and they’d be the ultimate power triad. Like, an Adonis Knight, the daughter of ventrak rostha, and the hero of humanity and descendant of tellon blaze?

i feel like dalmora’s father would be a little uncertain at first about his daughter being in a triad, but then he’d meet raven and jarra and he’d love them, especially with how happy they make his daughter, and before long he’d be doting on his daughter- and son-in-law as if they were his own children.

Ahhh, sorry for taking so long to reply (I was out with friends all day yesterday tbh) but again, I always love talking about Earth Girl, so I promise you’re not bugging me ^^

That AU sounds really interesting tbh, and I’d love to read it!! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again but Beta sector is, hands down, the best part of this entire universe.

Lolia and Lolmack have always been so deeply interesting to me and I would have preferred to have had more scenes with them than to have spent all that time on Fian’s parents’ because while I do feel bad for him, his story was kinda...meh (which is basically my feelings about his whole character overall).

I love that while they seem frivolous and careless on the surface, they care so deeply about their daughter and have a deeply ingrained sense of honour and responsibility to their loved ones.

The first time I read Earth Flight I was really hoping to see more of them teaching Jarra about Betan culture :( I’d love to see Jarra become Lolette’s godmother, and for her to be able to grow up having her aunt Jarra as a role model, to show her that people like her can do amazing things with their lives too.

I’m currently about halfway through my reread of Earth Flight and I’m sure I’ll be done soon, so I’ll be starting on my beta university au soon and rest assured Lolia and Lolmack will definitely be playing big roles in that :D