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[omnicrafter]

"In your darkest hour, in the blackest night... think of me, and I will be with you. Always. For where else could I go? Who else could I love but you?"

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[omnicrafter]

No overstepping at all; I suspect you're absolutely right. My brother is the same way, too. It either ends up with the men being aggressive shite-eating arseholes or meek and unsure of themselves. So I guess it only makes sense that I'm out of my element here, too.

...Not that I'm insinuating you're either extreme I mentioned, mind you. I was actually really touched by that offer you made on the network to share that gift you got.

You really are deserving of being a Warrior of Light, you know?

[stabbersinyerfambles]

Well I try not to be an arsehole if nothing else...

[ He's joking, or trying to. If anything Cehd'ra would admit to falling into the latter category of Keeper men but he would at least say that he's gotten better over the years. ]

Thank you. Though I wonder if any of us 'deserve' the title considering how much grief comes with it...

I know that isn't how you meant it. To be truthful as difficult as it's been I am glad for it. I was not in a good place before becoming an adventurer.

[omnicrafter]

A gesture like that is the opposite of arseholery, I'd say.

...I wasn't either. Maybe it's just indicative of how messed up our society can be, especially if a mother isn't particularly in a place to be a mother at all.

Mmm, maybe deserving is the wrong word for it. Well, you deserve it more than I do, at least.

[Wait. Did she ever actually stop to tell him about that part, and not just her family issues?

...Shite.]

[stabbersinyerfambles]

No society is perfect...

[ He doesn't remember that specific detail but it does put a lot else of what she's confessed into focus. ]

My own perspective is incomplete but even I could sense the pressure on my older sisters to mate at least once.

[ And for the handful of boys, even though they were not allowed to stay, there were heavy expectations to go forth and multiply... At least that's how it was in his clan. ]

[omnicrafter]

Some less so than others, as either of us can attest.

Yes... whether they want to or not, in some cases. Ironic, though, when the only one of her family who actually had any interest in that at all turns out to be the one least likely to ever do so. Hells, my younger sister is even the type to go as far as to permanently destroy her capacity to bear children just to stave off people pushing her into it, then seducing everyone with a dick she can get her mitts on just to drive the point home.

You know, I have to wonder if Megumi's tribe splitting off from the Shroud Keepers was at all related to these problems we gripe about... I might've done the same thing in her ancestors' shoes, to break away and create something more acceptable to those who would follow.

[stabbersinyerfambles]

[ Gods be good... Cehd'ra's ears twist as his fingers hover over the screen, not sure what to say at first. ]

Drastic measures on your sisters part. She did not hurt herself beyond her aims I pray?

It may be worth asking Megumi but from what she has told me of how her tribe runs things that could be the case. It sounds to be very different from what you and I grew up knowing. Honestly part of me does wish that I'd been born in her family...

[omnicrafter]

Not yet... that I know of. She uses some kind of forbidden thaumaturgical technique she dug out of the Ossuary from the sound of it, the kind that was originally an experimental solution to such "accidents", but got locked away real fast when everyone realized it was acting as more than just a temporary fix. She even gave me the page on it, too... though as a roundabout kind gesture or an underhanded jab at me personally, or some mixture of the two, I couldn't say.

I've thought that exact same thing, too. Though for what it's worth, I guess, we could always just sort of be what counts for a second family here. Even if we can't screw around, we can still be there for each other in an emotional capacity, and that's just as valuable in a place like this. Especially when we have the social context no one else does that contributes to half our issues anyway.