#and some of them. are horny.

[lovelaceisntdead]

Listening to the Cranberries and feeling unwell about Van Palmer no one talk to me

[wanderinthedeep]

welp

[vaguely-concerned]

sophia seeing cailan's body hanging there when they go back to ostagar, and suddenly all she can see even through the rot and the ruin is just how much he looked like alistair...... :'(

a mental image that totally will not haunt her through alistair's many years on the throne as rebellions and assassination attemps come and go. doesn't send her unhinged and unwise even a little

[kinokoshoujoart]

awfully sassy for a man with a scythe lodged in his skull aren’t you

[roguerambles]

In the alternate universe where Aelia ascends to godhood with Gale, Halsin is just minding his own business one day when she just...appears on his doorstep.

Aelia: "Halsin, we need to have sex."

Halsin: "...I need no further encouragement, but may I ask why?"

Aelia: "I have discovered my domain is Desire and now I require near constant mental and physical stimulation and if we don't have sex right now I will lose my fucking mind."

Halsin: *already shedding his clothes* "I completely understand, please come in--"

Gale wants to be annoyed, but Aelia's Aura of Thirst means he has also been persistently erotically charged so instead of getting mad and smiting Halsin when he finds him and Aelia in bed he says "Oh, thank me." and immediately gets into bed with them.

Becoming the personal lover of two newly crowned gods was not on Halsin's bucket list, but he's not mad about it.

[babylongospel]

So question(s) for my HDG girlies: does being a floret necessarily mean existing on a spectrum between stoner and house pet? While that's *absolutely* appealing to me I've been tinkering around with some story ideas and everything I've read tends in that direction yet I'm not sure if that's just narrative sampling bias or something.

If they're really dedicated to making sure each sophont before their best self, and a lot of bodymod tech is locked behind the implant, what do they do with a very enthusiastic transhumanist volunteer who wants to become *more* aware, not less? Or one who's already an Orion's Arm style post singularity intelligence and doesn't really wanna go back?

Also, what about hive minds? Like proper tyranid style overminds, who gets to be their owner? What does domesticating them even look like, what does "living your best life" look like for a ravenous swarm of biopuppets? What about sophont polities that are just as assimilate-y as the Affini themselves? Strog/Phyrexian/Infested type deal.