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'Static on the Line' Headcanon Roundup Part II (We Sure Do Live In A Society)

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:50:05 GMT

[Part I]

The first portion of this is going to focus somewhat on sexual mores beyond the nitty gritty of the last post, but we'll get into the fun stuff (i.e., scent marking) too.

LET US BEGIN
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'Static on the Line' Headcanon Roundup Part I (or, How Did We Get Here, Anyways)

Fri, 08 Feb 2019 05:46:36 GMT

If you're reading this and some of it sounds eerily familiar, it's probably because you saw this back when I was first hashing out the worldbuilding for this; some of it's going to be cribbed directly from those notes, while the rest is a firming and cleaning up of it.

With that in mind:

One of the primary conceits in any a/b/o setting is generally a) that there is some overarching reason for this triadic split and b) that this has societal impacts that may or may not be compounded by sexism and homophobia-lite. The reason can be [trainwreck biology noises] or [literally magic for no reason] and for me, personally, 'it's magic so shut up about it' meshes far better than trying to work out the biological mechanisms of buttbabies. Especially when those buttbabies are not actually justifiable from an evolutionary standpoint, and a Western model of gender absolutely isn't justifiable with several thousands of years of weight behind a triadic notion of reproduction and sexual behavior.

(And you may have noticed, I really do not like the 'secondary gender' wording of most a/b/o. We'll get into that later.)

So, all that in mind, why do the rank dynamics of alpha-beta-omega exist in SotL? It's magic, fuck you is why.

But it's also a little more complicated than that.
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ITS headcanon roundup

Sun, 30 Dec 2018 18:20:12 GMT

Been noodling at a couple things and figured I'd ought to write out a couple basic assumptions about canon that exist in the Into The Storm 'verse; some of these will carry on to other AUs, because I have opinions about canon, but some of these are ITS specific.

Heads up for mentions of abuse/adultery and child death.
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I will probably do a few more of these as stuff occurs to me, because there's a fair amount of background headcanon going on with Into The Storm and not all of it makes it into the text-text. But since I've got another one-shot half finished and most of Undertow's last chapter written, I figured now was as good a time as any to start poking at this stuff.

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Aiden Is Gay And You Can't Stop Me

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 02:17:41 GMT

Or, to be slightly less confrontational, "Ubisoft in writing a reclusive but family-focused man who almost exclusively has close male relationships and views women as sources of emotional support (but not necessarily romantic support) has unintentionally recreated some of the Confirmed Bachelor stereotypes and I've got fucking proof to back up my claims"* but, y'know, less pithy.

Anyways.

The first time I played through the game, I thought 'wow Aiden is a dick.' The second time I played through the game, I thought 'wow Aiden is a dick why am I still replaying this.' The third time I played through the game, I thought 'is there a reason why Damien and Aiden's final confrontation is like the dramatic Betrayed By My Ex scenes in a lot of action movies when Clara's final scene wasn't?'
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