What are some strange/funny relationships customs In Ebott/of the aus?
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In dancetale, the traditional proposal/soulbonding gift is for the paired monsters to exchange custom made shoes or dance beads. Then at the soulbonding ceremony they perform a piece together wearing their gifts. It’s still a practice only seen with the dance au monsters despite how much attention the media gives it.
In seaswap, seafell and seatale there was little room for stuff on the ships, so courtship almost never involved gifts. Instead special date activities were used as the big steps in official relationships. Duels were popular in seafell while races were more seaswap style. Seatale tended to look towards the sky though, and a common date for couples is stargazing/mapping.
Because of the tight extended family dynamics in most of the farm AUs, “family wars” were a popular wedding/bonding ceremony activity where the extended families of the couple competed to see who’s farm the newlyweds would settle at. In farmtale, farmswapfell and farmfell wrestling was the main activity with the families picking their biggest/toughest members to compete. In farmswap and farmgold, feasts were held as a competition- the best food wins the couple. And in farmred and horrorfarm it was a competition to see who could build something the fastest. These were staged activities as the couple had already chosen beforehand which family to go to, so it’s all in good fun.
In lustfell large harem structured units where the richest monster has multiple mates was the most common system. To keep the peace in these family structures though, any new monsters being added to the harem would have to win the favor of the current members before being allowed to live with the rest of the family. This usually involves the new monster learning the main craft of the rich monsters family and hoping that what they gift the other harem members is impressive enough for them to allow them in.
