Ok so I’ve been RPing miqo’te for a year seeker and keeper and I have some quick headcanons.
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I have this feeling that in Miqo’te society, it would be common to be polyamourous, however definitely not unheard of to be monogymous. Like in our society it’s common to be in a relationship with only one person, with miqo’te they’d share the opposite view. It’s convienient to be poly, bc of breeding rights (esp in Seekers), and it just makes more sense not to limit to one person because there are so little men in society that not sharing them would mean less children and ultimately, smaller families, tribes, and less chance for the race as a whole to continue.
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Forehead boops! Knocking foreheads with friends, family, lovers, challengers and others to show your respect, trust and love for them. Various different ways to do it as well as different meanings for each! A short knock, a quick ‘hello friend!’. A press of foreheads with eyes closed, ‘I respect you’, and alternatively placing your hand on the back of the others neck to draw them in would mean the same but used more between challengers before a fight for a Nunh position, oft saying ‘I respect you, good luck, and LOOK I had the chance to hurt you being this close but I want this fair, and it’s going to be fair good luck.’ Elongated booping like just resting your heads together a long time shows affection, scent marks, and is just really nice.Â
Continuing with the forehead, a HUGE insult would be like, slapping, flicking and other hits to the forehead. It’s like flipping someone off or invading sacred space. It’s a huge fuck you and wouldn’t be taken lightly unless between friends and sibblings.
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Paint!
More prominent in Keepers, painting up your mate before you mate with them for luck, fertility, bonding and affection. Typically painting scenes of nature such as from the sky, or favoured plants and animals. After mating, both partners would wash each other off, and then paint each others faces for continued blessings from Menphina.Â
Alternatively, perhaps, Seekers of the Sun would adopt this as a fertility practice before Nunh breeding, where the woman would paint her chosen Nunh with sun’s in their tribes colours! This promotes trust and bonding, as well as the belief that it really will help with conception.
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Nunh’s
I have a feeling that one of the Nunh’s jobs would be to watch his children while the mothers are out hunting, teaching or anything else that would occupy their time and take them away from the children, especially babies.Â
Also, it is NOT the nunh’s job to choose his mates, the women choose their Nunh in the tribe – typically one they are comfortable with or who impressed the most, and go to him to set a time to breed. This is then announced to the tribe, they hold a celebration and the Nunh goes to hunt something down for the celebration to show he is still fit for the role!Â
When a Tia challenges a Nunh of the tribe, they must show they are worthy before even fighting him.They must hunt, spread territory, and be the strongest or show they are the strongest/smartest out of the other Tia in the tribe before even challenging the Nunh. After the challenge has been made before the whole tribe, having the support of at least ONE woman, and providing a feast for the entire tribe they will set a day and fight at noon. This is a FAIR fight, and any Tia who catches a Nunh off guard, fights unfairly, or otherwise breaks the rule, they would not be considered and often shunned.
Should anyone get pregnant, or get someone pregnant who was not in the tribe, both partners and child would be shunned and often removed from the tribe. Especially bad if this is a Nunh breeding with anyone outside of the tribe, as their role is to provide the TRIBE, not others, with top notch, healthy and strong children.
Being Nunh is more than just breeding, and definitely NOT leading the tribe. It is an honour and privilege to pass on your linage.Â
I have another Nunh thing to add about that post for cultural headcanons!
I have a feeling that the Nunh would have to be there for the birthing, but not only that, HELP his mate give birth. Sure there are midwives but he’d have to be the one to hold the babies head and gently pull the child out while she pushes, while also being emotional support.Â
I think that it would be incredibly insulting if he wasn’t there for the birthing.
After the birthing is done and the baby is cleaned and cord cut, the sex would be announced to the tribe and there would be a BIG celebration for the new life! I mean big.
There would be a time mid day, I think, where the two (mate and her chosen Nunh) would announce the child’s name, and also ask for blessing from Azeyma before it’s official.Â
On the other hand, in the event a child be lost, there would be great mourning throughout the tribe and a time of comfort for the parents who lost. I think there would also be great fear, thinking that Azeyma was not pleased with the coupling and that couple should not attempt another child. Ever.Â
Perhaps even that the Nunh himself was not fit (especially if that was his first child), and he be removed from the position and back to being a Tia.Â
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In Keepers of the Moon men are in far fewer numbers than in their Seeker counterparts, and the males often leave their families in search of starting their own.Â
I have a feeling Keepers are more monogymous than Seekers are, simply because settling down with someone is attractive when you’re in such small groups as it is (comparatively speaking). Women are highly respected and cherished, as mothers, sisters, and daughters.Â
I see mixed feelings between male Keepers about their names, how they have no real identity of their own by taking their mothers full name with only a prefex at the end of her first name to show which son they are. I can see it being a mixed feeling with the characters as well, where some would be honoured to carry their mothers name, while others would hate it with a passion.Â
Phases of the moon may affect Keepers in their daily activity, such as hunting or foods they eat, as well as menstrual cycles possibly! (like if a woman got her period on a full moon it was a good sign, or bad!). Perhaps in the different phases of the moon they would hunt certain things, or cook a certain way to please the Goddess.Â
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Solar/Lunar eclipse!
I have this headcanon that when a solar eclipse happens, that Keepers and Seekers get together for a big celebration of the Sisters coming together. Perhaps to share stories of the day and night and be in company. The two clans would do the same, putting aside differences and enjoying a feast and sharing stories and hunting techniques.Â
I have a feeling Lunar eclipses would bring fear to Keepers of the moon, since the moon TURNED RED is MENPHINA ANGRY AT US??? I have a feeling they would try to appease her by bringing gifts to loved ones, to her, and doing other things.
If you had any to add, feel free! These are just thoughts I've had over my time RPing and though I'd share here as well!
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I have this feeling that in Miqo’te society, it would be common to be polyamourous, however definitely not unheard of to be monogymous. Like in our society it’s common to be in a relationship with only one person, with miqo’te they’d share the opposite view. It’s convienient to be poly, bc of breeding rights (esp in Seekers), and it just makes more sense not to limit to one person because there are so little men in society that not sharing them would mean less children and ultimately, smaller families, tribes, and less chance for the race as a whole to continue.
—-
Forehead boops! Knocking foreheads with friends, family, lovers, challengers and others to show your respect, trust and love for them. Various different ways to do it as well as different meanings for each! A short knock, a quick ‘hello friend!’. A press of foreheads with eyes closed, ‘I respect you’, and alternatively placing your hand on the back of the others neck to draw them in would mean the same but used more between challengers before a fight for a Nunh position, oft saying ‘I respect you, good luck, and LOOK I had the chance to hurt you being this close but I want this fair, and it’s going to be fair good luck.’ Elongated booping like just resting your heads together a long time shows affection, scent marks, and is just really nice.Â
Continuing with the forehead, a HUGE insult would be like, slapping, flicking and other hits to the forehead. It’s like flipping someone off or invading sacred space. It’s a huge fuck you and wouldn’t be taken lightly unless between friends and sibblings.
—
Paint!
More prominent in Keepers, painting up your mate before you mate with them for luck, fertility, bonding and affection. Typically painting scenes of nature such as from the sky, or favoured plants and animals. After mating, both partners would wash each other off, and then paint each others faces for continued blessings from Menphina.Â
Alternatively, perhaps, Seekers of the Sun would adopt this as a fertility practice before Nunh breeding, where the woman would paint her chosen Nunh with sun’s in their tribes colours! This promotes trust and bonding, as well as the belief that it really will help with conception.
—
Nunh’s
I have a feeling that one of the Nunh’s jobs would be to watch his children while the mothers are out hunting, teaching or anything else that would occupy their time and take them away from the children, especially babies.Â
Also, it is NOT the nunh’s job to choose his mates, the women choose their Nunh in the tribe – typically one they are comfortable with or who impressed the most, and go to him to set a time to breed. This is then announced to the tribe, they hold a celebration and the Nunh goes to hunt something down for the celebration to show he is still fit for the role!Â
When a Tia challenges a Nunh of the tribe, they must show they are worthy before even fighting him.They must hunt, spread territory, and be the strongest or show they are the strongest/smartest out of the other Tia in the tribe before even challenging the Nunh. After the challenge has been made before the whole tribe, having the support of at least ONE woman, and providing a feast for the entire tribe they will set a day and fight at noon. This is a FAIR fight, and any Tia who catches a Nunh off guard, fights unfairly, or otherwise breaks the rule, they would not be considered and often shunned.
Should anyone get pregnant, or get someone pregnant who was not in the tribe, both partners and child would be shunned and often removed from the tribe. Especially bad if this is a Nunh breeding with anyone outside of the tribe, as their role is to provide the TRIBE, not others, with top notch, healthy and strong children.
Being Nunh is more than just breeding, and definitely NOT leading the tribe. It is an honour and privilege to pass on your linage.Â
I have another Nunh thing to add about that post for cultural headcanons!
I have a feeling that the Nunh would have to be there for the birthing, but not only that, HELP his mate give birth. Sure there are midwives but he’d have to be the one to hold the babies head and gently pull the child out while she pushes, while also being emotional support.Â
I think that it would be incredibly insulting if he wasn’t there for the birthing.
After the birthing is done and the baby is cleaned and cord cut, the sex would be announced to the tribe and there would be a BIG celebration for the new life! I mean big.
There would be a time mid day, I think, where the two (mate and her chosen Nunh) would announce the child’s name, and also ask for blessing from Azeyma before it’s official.Â
On the other hand, in the event a child be lost, there would be great mourning throughout the tribe and a time of comfort for the parents who lost. I think there would also be great fear, thinking that Azeyma was not pleased with the coupling and that couple should not attempt another child. Ever.Â
Perhaps even that the Nunh himself was not fit (especially if that was his first child), and he be removed from the position and back to being a Tia.Â
–
In Keepers of the Moon men are in far fewer numbers than in their Seeker counterparts, and the males often leave their families in search of starting their own.Â
I have a feeling Keepers are more monogymous than Seekers are, simply because settling down with someone is attractive when you’re in such small groups as it is (comparatively speaking). Women are highly respected and cherished, as mothers, sisters, and daughters.Â
I see mixed feelings between male Keepers about their names, how they have no real identity of their own by taking their mothers full name with only a prefex at the end of her first name to show which son they are. I can see it being a mixed feeling with the characters as well, where some would be honoured to carry their mothers name, while others would hate it with a passion.Â
Phases of the moon may affect Keepers in their daily activity, such as hunting or foods they eat, as well as menstrual cycles possibly! (like if a woman got her period on a full moon it was a good sign, or bad!). Perhaps in the different phases of the moon they would hunt certain things, or cook a certain way to please the Goddess.Â
–Â
Solar/Lunar eclipse!
I have this headcanon that when a solar eclipse happens, that Keepers and Seekers get together for a big celebration of the Sisters coming together. Perhaps to share stories of the day and night and be in company. The two clans would do the same, putting aside differences and enjoying a feast and sharing stories and hunting techniques.Â
I have a feeling Lunar eclipses would bring fear to Keepers of the moon, since the moon TURNED RED is MENPHINA ANGRY AT US??? I have a feeling they would try to appease her by bringing gifts to loved ones, to her, and doing other things.
If you had any to add, feel free! These are just thoughts I've had over my time RPing and though I'd share here as well!
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