Thor, Sif, and the other 2 Warriors resolve into those boxes that I was talking about earlier, except these new boxes are less gendered. I guess the rationale for having so many boxes is that I as a writer inevitably find a harsh discrepancy between the principles of being a courtier and the conduct of an Asgardian warrior-adventurer. I explain discrepancies that have been successfully maintained over hundreds of years with boxes because I'm kind of lame and oversimplify things I guess. This is getting sad and introspective for me. :( ... oh no.
These guys are in the family box. Fandral is not close to his own biological family. He probably had rumors around him as a child about how his mom bred with a human or someone else's husband, blah blah, so he was defensive and guarded since childhood even before he got into the court game a little too early. Nonetheless, I think for plenty of past alts I've played -- even given family trouble and bad relationship modelling, there was room for salacity, emotional needs, or repressed longing to leak into homosocial bromance, or at least more grey area. By now, there's no grey going on with Fandral at all. He doesn't blink at Sif's tits (although there is an odd, mild, sibling-like avoidance of seeing them at all), but he will break your arm if you say she's ugly or not good enough a fighter. He's probably barged or been barged in on while naked with girls and there were good-natured aagh about penis-glimpses or, if the situation was serious, no reaction at all.
Friendship with the core group operates on a wholly different frequency than his sexy times. It would feel incestuous to get with them. Not only have they known each other since they were kids, but childhood was hundreds of years long and adulthood even longer. It'd be creepy like MISS STEPHENIE MEYER's werewolf imprinting thing, at this point.
I think when he was younger this was more confusing, especially when he had poorer impulse control, re: adolescence. He probably crushed on all of them at some point or other (desire to kiss Sif disclosed in solo log). However, some point in his early life he did make the conscious decision they were family-- like siblings, and inherent to that decision, they would never be anything else. I believe the guiding rationale for that decision included all the thoughts you mentioned: he didn't want to jeopardize their friendships, he felt it would screw things up for Asgard if there were sexual shenanigans, never mind romantic ones, and the complications of preferential treatment in crazy military operations. When they started doing really important work for Odin, saving lives, amassing resources for Asgard and the peoples of the Nine Realms, he came to value that responsibility a lot. He wouldn't give it up for some shady shippyness he doesn't really want.
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Date: 2012-12-20 04:10 am (UTC)These guys are in the family box. Fandral is not close to his own biological family. He probably had rumors around him as a child about how his mom bred with a human or someone else's husband, blah blah, so he was defensive and guarded since childhood even before he got into the court game a little too early. Nonetheless, I think for plenty of past alts I've played -- even given family trouble and bad relationship modelling, there was room for salacity, emotional needs, or repressed longing to leak into homosocial bromance, or at least more grey area. By now, there's no grey going on with Fandral at all. He doesn't blink at Sif's tits (although there is an odd, mild, sibling-like avoidance of seeing them at all), but he will break your arm if you say she's ugly or not good enough a fighter. He's probably barged or been barged in on while naked with girls and there were good-natured aagh about penis-glimpses or, if the situation was serious, no reaction at all.
Friendship with the core group operates on a wholly different frequency than his sexy times. It would feel incestuous to get with them. Not only have they known each other since they were kids, but childhood was hundreds of years long and adulthood even longer. It'd be creepy like MISS STEPHENIE MEYER's werewolf imprinting thing, at this point.
I think when he was younger this was more confusing, especially when he had poorer impulse control, re: adolescence. He probably crushed on all of them at some point or other (desire to kiss Sif disclosed in solo log). However, some point in his early life he did make the conscious decision they were family-- like siblings, and inherent to that decision, they would never be anything else. I believe the guiding rationale for that decision included all the thoughts you mentioned: he didn't want to jeopardize their friendships, he felt it would screw things up for Asgard if there were sexual shenanigans, never mind romantic ones, and the complications of preferential treatment in crazy military operations. When they started doing really important work for Odin, saving lives, amassing resources for Asgard and the peoples of the Nine Realms, he came to value that responsibility a lot. He wouldn't give it up for some shady shippyness he doesn't really want.
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