(09-01-2013, 04:00 PM)Clover Wrote: Just a note. The harem culture has also been a part of the human society, so it's not like sentient creatures are above it. We just need to understand what kind of emotional attachment (or lack of it in this case) such human beings could have in order to perhaps understand Miqo'tes. I personally don't understand a thing, for I believe that jealousy and possessiveness are also natural emotions that every or most sentient creatures would experience (?).
Well most of the animal kingdom no. I suppose it depends what you consider "sentient" There are some animals that mate for life but for the most part it's sort of make babies and move on to make more babies XD.
When it comes to cats it's very much like this. And Lions have the whole one male has a group of females that he will breed with and form their own groups. Miqo'te have some similarities to wild cats by the sound of it. I suppose looking at it from a human perspective it's hard to understand how they could have sex and then move on and that would depend on them thinking how we do where we very much often mix sex and love together.
Miqo'te seem to me at least be interested in creating strong families so their children will be healthy and will be able to thrive so finding partners who will give them the best offspring is more important than how they feel about them. Not that i can't imagine some might have loving feelings towards a partner but i lean more to most of them behaving more like wild cats where it's survival of the fittest and they seek partners for these reasons.
They don't seem to be the type to care much about what their partner does after they have done their business together.
