I'm fine with the idea of lalafell romance even with mixed race couples, but I would rather gloss over the distasteful stuff. On a certain level, I can't not see them as children. I think that in setting other races would have a similar problem, and it takes a certain type of individual to look past that and recognize them for being fully fledged, mature adults.
There was a problem in a strategy game I played, actually. The lore for the game Sword of the Stars mentioned that the Tarkasians, lizard people, had difficulty fighting humans in hand to hand or on the ground despite a huge physical edge. This is because they exhibited sexual dimorphism where the females were much larger and stronger, (Until a select few males undergo a *second* sexual maturation, one of their weirder biological quirks triggered by a special diet.) and infant/juvenile Tarkasians were less scaled and had smooth skin. To them, the humans looked like androgynous children, who'd never gone through puberty and reached that point where males and females started to look different. Even if logically, they could recognize their enemy as mature adults and competent soldiers, subconsciously it was ingrained into them by society and their own biology to find the act of killing them disturbing on a fundamental level. I think that other races will inevitably struggle with this instinctual aversion even in lore. Forget even romance; I think there are a lot of people who'd have difficulty even raising a hand to or committing violence against Lalafell.
There was a problem in a strategy game I played, actually. The lore for the game Sword of the Stars mentioned that the Tarkasians, lizard people, had difficulty fighting humans in hand to hand or on the ground despite a huge physical edge. This is because they exhibited sexual dimorphism where the females were much larger and stronger, (Until a select few males undergo a *second* sexual maturation, one of their weirder biological quirks triggered by a special diet.) and infant/juvenile Tarkasians were less scaled and had smooth skin. To them, the humans looked like androgynous children, who'd never gone through puberty and reached that point where males and females started to look different. Even if logically, they could recognize their enemy as mature adults and competent soldiers, subconsciously it was ingrained into them by society and their own biology to find the act of killing them disturbing on a fundamental level. I think that other races will inevitably struggle with this instinctual aversion even in lore. Forget even romance; I think there are a lot of people who'd have difficulty even raising a hand to or committing violence against Lalafell.
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