(07-16-2013, 07:44 PM)Desmond Aryll Wrote: What about the polyamorous family units of the Seekers? Is anyone Rp'ing that? Or if you Rp some other race, what do your characters think of the traditional Miqote family groups?Â
In how I personally handle this on C'io, she doesn't find the traditional tribal structure of her Seeker tribe to be odd. She thinks very little of her father, actually, and is much more attached to her mother. There's a short thing I wrote which is meant to be appended to a larger thing that I think highlights that feeling:
C io Wrote:I am Io of the Coeurl, not Io of the Bald Eagle, as my father would have it. C'io, not Be'io. I carry too much of him in my own name already and will bear no more. My father is--was--C'behkt. My mother was C'ahlya; I do not carry her name, but she is reflected in every other part of me [...]
To her, her father and perhaps every other nunh out there is little more than a necessity; it is something that is just done to bring the tribe forward, and the system of nunh/tia is a matter of separating the wheat from the chaff. All female miqo'te are worthy, but the men must prove themselves. This keeps the bloodlines strong, which keeps the tribes strong, and keeping track of which nunh a miqo'te is born from helps determine later criteria for selection in case the "stock turns out to be bad." Very eugenics and very methodical. Very unfair too, but nomadic life, particularly in an Umbral Era, demands it.
That all said, she does not approve of Nunh who try to assert dominance over females. They are overstepping their boundaries if they do. Basically, the amory part of polyamory is not part of the equation in her way of viewing tradition.
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