Tales from the Dawn #3: "A Question of Life" (Hermes)

[Lurina]

Also I'm pretty sure I don't get to be hot for ten thousand years. Maybe this is just pessimism about my looks, but I'm pretty sure you just get what you get for your whole life, and that's not necessarily 'hot' just because we happen to be surrounded by pretty people. Add to that that I can't tell exactly what Amaurot would feel about wanting to change your own appearance, but that as a trans woman I'd kind of need whatever society I'm living in to be cool with that, and... yeah, I'm not taking 'everyone is hot' as a given, that might just be a result of the fact you have to try pretty hard to get the character creator to produce someone who isn't hot.

I don't have time to reply to all of this right now and the topic will probably have moved on by the time I do (summary of what I'd say: the stuff about freedom to research/work on whatever you like also applies to amaurot based on what we see in akadaemia anyder and with stuff like the cthonic horns, most amaurotines having no experience with non-consensual death means dangerous stuff probably rarely happens and we probably only hear about those examples because they're the few times action happens in such a generally peaceful world, and yeah the government is pretty dubious but the post-scarcity nature of the unsundered world probably leaves few incentives for power grabs, and we don't really hear enough detail to know if there are checks and balances) but to respond to this real quick, there's a line in Pandaemonium where Lahabrea says they can "alter their physical vessels" at will.

That's probably the origin of the hotness, and also the robes, since even how you look in their world is a display of creative vanity. Also, there's quite a few Ancients with opposite gender names both in the plot and hanging around Elpis, though I guess you can interpret that in different ways.

[Brinne]

That's probably the origin of the hotness, and also the robes, since even how you look in their world is a display of creative vanity. Also, there's quite a few Ancients with opposite gender names both in the plot and hanging around Elpis, though I guess you can interpret that in different ways.

As far as the Ancients and the question of their approach to sexuality and gender fluidity goes, there's also the implications with Artemis, too!