(07-18-2013, 05:31 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: That's not to say that individuals, of course, may not experience varying levels of "squick" at their own culture, depending on the personalities in question and the closeness of the biological relationship involved. "Call me Daddy," indeed.

(07-19-2013, 01:01 AM)Zyrusticae Wrote: Much of the "squick" factor with relation to incestuous relationships has to do with physical proximity over an extended period of time, particularly during the formative years. You will get a similar "squick" reaction from two adopted children who are completely unrelated physically, for example. Meanwhile, a brother and sister who are directly descended from the same parents but haven't ever met each other before they hit puberty will have no problem getting it on (hence the portrayal of Luke and Leia kissing in Star Wars is actually quite accurate).

I have no idea how this works with regard to Miqo'te due to a lack of knowledge about their particular living arrangements, but I assume the constant rotation of Nunh helps to quell this effect.

(07-19-2013, 01:11 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: "genetic salesman"

(07-19-2013, 01:26 AM)Desmond Aryll Wrote: lol. Quick! Somebody RP'ing a male Miqo'te change their User Profile tag to this.

(07-19-2013, 12:36 AM)Callipygian Wrote:

(07-19-2013, 12:15 AM)Kitty Wizard Wrote: I was just curious - if the Keepers have family units that are less tribe-like in dynamic, does that mean that rather than sires and mothers, there is the regular ol' mother-father parentage? 

"Though there are ten suffixes listed above, rarely do even the largest Keeper of the Moon families have more than two or three sons. This is not by choice. Nature merely sees to it that more females are born to this race."

This quote comes from the wiki on this site describing naming conventions for Moon males.  In a case where you have significantly more of one gender than the other, monogamy is the exception rather than the rule.  You could have a monogamous family to be sure (especially when two individuals forge a strong romantic bond), but there must be some sort of compromise in the society as a whole to deal with the lack of males.

More likely is that the "tribes" (communities) consist of several closely related families of females.  For example, I plan to have Myxie's tribe consist of Myxie's mother and siblings, Myxie's aunt's family, Myxie's grandmother, and two families of Myxie's distant cousins.  The only males in the group are boys.  Once they reach majority, wanderlust kicks in (and the fact that all the immediate females are closely related and well-known to them since childhood, thus not desirable mates).

I remember reading somewhere that Moon males were particularly nomadic.  My guess, and the way I'm playing Myxie's tribe, is that males wander around, occasionally visiting Moon communities.  Receptive females breed with them, but don't really develop strong romantic ties, and the children are raised in a more communal manner with Aunts and Grandmothers aiding and filling in the father's role of alternate caretaker.

If they all settled down or tried to enforce some sort of monogamous system, it would be monogamous in name only.  There'd be a LOT of adultery in the form of females unable to find mates who weren't attached and a generally high amount of drama.  Considering the two clans likely shared a breeding system at some point in the past before they diverged, I see no reason why monogamy would have developed when there is still a major gender gap.