[ oh come on it's a cultural exchange. vere sounds like a hentai comic brought to life, and gideon's universe probably sounds like a death-obsessed hellscape! which it is, so. ]
Right, right. You seem like a very dutiful soon to be monarch and I'm sure you'll manage the orgies in a responsible and ethical manner.
[ nearly cheerfully, ]
Me, do a breed? Not a chance in hell. Making a kid's the absolute opposite of being good with death energy, so allegedly it's better to mash together two necros with proven lineages and hope, rather than take a chance on a random person with no lineage diluting the gene pool. It's like, 50 miscarriages to 1 baby odds. The Reverend Mother only had one successful brat in her entire life.
[ that sounds like awkward family dynamics. imagine if the reverend mother or father had had an adult sibling around when the Incident occurred... well, harrow would've probably just killed them too and puppeted around the corpse, so maybe it wouldn't have been a problem. ]
Huh.
[ 'what if he likes war,' she almost asks, and doesn't.
don't mind her making a face like she stepped in cat sick with her bare foot. 'feel strongly,' uck. ]
I'm her cav, and she's an asshole. She's Harrowhark Nonagesimus, the Reverend Daughter, and I'm sure she'd be delighted to list off all her boring titles if she were here.
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Right, right. You seem like a very dutiful soon to be monarch and I'm sure you'll manage the orgies in a responsible and ethical manner.
[ nearly cheerfully, ]
Me, do a breed? Not a chance in hell. Making a kid's the absolute opposite of being good with death energy, so allegedly it's better to mash together two necros with proven lineages and hope, rather than take a chance on a random person with no lineage diluting the gene pool. It's like, 50 miscarriages to 1 baby odds. The Reverend Mother only had one successful brat in her entire life.
[ that sounds like awkward family dynamics. imagine if the reverend mother or father had had an adult sibling around when the Incident occurred... well, harrow would've probably just killed them too and puppeted around the corpse, so maybe it wouldn't have been a problem. ]
Huh.
[ 'what if he likes war,' she almost asks, and doesn't.
don't mind her making a face like she stepped in cat sick with her bare foot. 'feel strongly,' uck. ]
I'm her cav, and she's an asshole. She's Harrowhark Nonagesimus, the Reverend Daughter, and I'm sure she'd be delighted to list off all her boring titles if she were here.