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Well, it seems the lot of you got up to quite the party just before my arriVal.
Terrible timing, but I can't complain if this is hoW you conduct yourselVes on the regular.
As is obVious, I'm neW here. The name's Lanque Bombyx.
For those more experienced With this World and this organization, I'd appreciate WhateVer adVice you might haVe for someone in my position.
It isn't one I'm particularly used to, after all, but I'm adaptable and knoWn for being flexible—in many Ways.
Who knoWs, We might enjoy getting to knoW one another While We're at it.
NeVer hurts to make neW friends, right?
Terrible timing, but I can't complain if this is hoW you conduct yourselVes on the regular.
As is obVious, I'm neW here. The name's Lanque Bombyx.
For those more experienced With this World and this organization, I'd appreciate WhateVer adVice you might haVe for someone in my position.
It isn't one I'm particularly used to, after all, but I'm adaptable and knoWn for being flexible—in many Ways.
Who knoWs, We might enjoy getting to knoW one another While We're at it.
NeVer hurts to make neW friends, right?
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...mmmm...
You know what, I've said this much so I may as well go a little farther in. My case was..pretty unique? Very 'good-bad luck' in having connections Something wanted. Something part of a reaaaaal ancient war.
The problem is basically that the deal I made ended in playing puppet to that thing. I had moments of being me! Just ah. Not a lot. I was a bit too much in disagreement with their goals I guess.
Moral of the story, don't make choices like that when you're falling to your death full of glass!
Who knows how it would go for the things in your world though...
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I can't say I blame you for taking the deal, death can make a bitch pretty desperate. Push you to do things you might otherWise neVer do.
WhateVer fucked you oVer Was especially insidious, though.
In any case, you and others being here despite being dead raises a lot of questions about this place.
Right before I appeared here, the train I Was on got bloWn off the rails, but I'm not dead.
[Well, at least he's pretty confident he's not dead. He feels like he'd remember dying, or the moments leading to it...]
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Well, if you can't remember it all going dark and numb, you're probably right? At the very least either way it's far from the worst place to end up...I mean even the criminal organization we got recruited to is 'dumbed down'!
There's free healthcare and benefits here!!! Healthcare!
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But... Healthcare? I can, obViously, put the tWo Words together and figure out a reasonably accurate guess to What that means, but I can't say anything like that existed on Alternia.
Not that We don't haVe means to take care of our health, but this seems like something specific.
Is that something rare Where you're from, WhateVer it is?
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Hihhh, I guess I should have expected that...
Healthcare benefits basically mean that certain matters on our health get covered by the workplace with no trouble. An easy example, they'll fix up your teeth or get your glasses. A more complicated example would be that if you've say...broken an arm, or gotten sick, they'll cover whatever you need to get through it!
It's a bit of a sliding scale. Technically, where I lived, we had universal healthcare. But they wouldn't necessarily help you out with say...your teeth. Or, it wouldn't completely cover you for some things, so you'd have to find a way to cover the cost of what you needed for medication and such.
[A bit after she sends this, she sends Another message.]
Unrelated, but I just noticed my fiancé isn't trying to read over my shoulder anymore, and that's kinda concerning!
I...very. Very heavily apologize if she's somehow contacting you with something she's mad about. (She's probably mad about it. I'm trying to find where she's gone, normally I'd say near the space heater since she can't really handle the cold, but unfortunately fire type pokemon exst!)
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Yeah, maybe there's something like that for the military, maybe eVen the higher castes on the planet. I think I'Ve seen some machines that Were for similar purposes in Blue blood hiVes.
But, What's this about fixing up your teeth? Do they not just groW back on their oWn?
As for your moirail, she slid into my DMs throWing a tantrum and threatening me about you choosing to talk to me about your Whole death thing, acting like I Was the one forcing you to talk about it.
Guess she doesn't belieVe you're capable of handling yourself.
It's almost cute, honestly.
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Oh?
Hmm I feel like I've heard that word before... ...but I have a feeling 'Moirail' is culture specific here...if it sounds about right it's probably close to what we have going on though? I'd have to get a definition to really say.
Still that sounds like her... ...I guess I can't blame her, it really wasn't something I talked about that much...I've been getting better though you see!~
Especially since it's kinda gotten clear that uh...well. It's not the weirdest thing here. ...And...honestly, as tragic as it all was, I've got her now anyway~! So there's no need to cry over lost potential~
[AH YES....FORMER ROMANCES...]
Seriously though if she gets to be too much just say the word, I think I have something I can flush her out with.
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And don't Worry, she's nothing I can't handle.
But she should be glad you'Ve gotten oVer it enough to talk about it, instead of going for the throat of those Who are merely giVing you an auricular sponge clot.
As for Moirails, hm. It's a little hard to think of how to explain it When it's such a normal thing.
It's one of the four romantic quadrants...actually, before I begin, do humans haVe quadrants?
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Though to be fair, we do tend to bounce back from a lot of stuff. Durability might not be our thing, but endurance sure is!
I get the feeling she'd go for a few throats even without that, but maybe she's a bit stir crazy...well, we're going for a trip in a few days at least, so maybe that will help.
Mmmm. Quadrants...from the word and context, it sounds like you're saying there's four set types of 'romance' where you're from? If I think about it enough, there's definitely shades of romance and relationship in humans, but I'd be hardpressed to put any of that in boxes.
As it stands the answer's no, I've never even heard the term...
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You make her sound like a barkbeast, you knoW? But, WhateVer gets her sliding the fuck out of my DMs, I guess.
AnyWays, enough about her, at least in that context, but I also don't really Want to go deep into the details about quadrants, maybe some other time, but I Will giVe you the short and skinny of it.
There's red, pale, ashen, and black. The first tWo operate through pity, the other tWo through hate.
Moirails—pale—are pretty much partners Who balance each other out. They make up for What their partner lacks. For example, a Weaker but leVelheaded troll pairing up With a more chaotic and stronger one.
The leVel headed one helps keep the more chaotic troll in check through pacifying them in WhateVer Way Works for them, While the more dangerous troll sometimes takes on a more protectiVe role for the Weaker one.
Either Way, the tWo confide in and are emotionally responsible for each other.
NeVer been much interested in it myself, but does this sound right?
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Ahm, anyway. ...Hmmm. I mean I guess that's part of our relationship, but definitely not all of it? There's definitely a lot of, ahe, physical intimacy without getting into details...
But the emotional aspect does sound right... ...Quick question, but if Moirails are pale, what's the 'red'? You said 'Red and Pale' operate through pity, so I'll probably be finding the better answer knowing more on those two at least.
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AnyWay, red is the partner you pail on the regular, your matesprit.
If pailing means anything to you, I don't knoW hoW you humans fuck.
I guess they also help With some of your emotional needs, but not in the same Way a moirail does, matesprits haVe to stay in their lane, just like moirails do.
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And hmm! Well then.
Looks like you can toss those boxes goodbye because that definitely covers two big requirements of a healthy steady relationship. I mean there's definitely stuff you save for friends and not partners, and aaaabsolutely people who just want someone for the sex, but when it comes to a solid relationship most try for both yep...
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Moirails are not friends, they're a boyfriend or girlfriend, just like a matesprit, and most trolls Would argue matesprits aren't only a person you pail.
EVen I said that.
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First! Not what I was saying!! I was saying for some, the things you would tell one, would still never be told to your partner- girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse, whatever.
That wasn't meant to say friends are the same as those- of course they aren't! Humans just tend to trust the absolute closest friends with some details that...ehh, most would consider pretty simple. It was an offhand remark from the main point, frankly.
What WAS my point however is that most human beings? Don't have a partner for what you consider 'moirail' and a partner under 'matesprit'. Instead it's one, for Both.
My fiancee fills Both of those roles for me.
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Granted, I still haVe a lot to learn about humans, but it really sounds like your Version of matespritship asks a Whole hell of a lot of a person.
Also, just to be clear, moirails aren't just your secrets buddy, there's a lot more than that, but it doesn't matter.
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Oh- I wasn't saying they were. 'Secrets Buddies' that is. You were pretty clear about the matter of emotional needs.
But for some reason people often hear that and just dump EVERYTHING on a person! It's rude, and frankly, potentially even cruel. If you need therapy, you need to find a therapist. Or at least vent it at someone who isn't already taking everything, yeesh. Like you said though, not the point.
Honestly, it would be easier to say that relationships follow a spectrum between those points? Some lean more one way, others are a more complete blend of two. Humans are really varied! I'm sure someone out there has a loathing-based relationship working out somehow even.
[Ah... ...the black roms...]