"I had someone like that. Still do, just on the other side of things. Not like a husband or a wife, but... He understood me. There were never questions of trust or motives." Mantis gets a little softer as he speaks.
"So that's it! I was wondering how gendered dynamics work in her society that she seemed to command so much control in the home. That's very common among older cultures. The women are keepers of money and magic and make the decisions that determine the future of their people. They don't give up that kind of power easily and goddesses have existed to reflect it."
Mantis leans in a bit closer to Tom and watches the man's drink as well. "Entropy is the natural state of all things. Balance is the ultimate craving of the universe, so it's inevitable that energy being spent will run out. People are afraid of that, though, and that's why they're so afraid of dying and losing what little they might gain. It's stupid. They hurt each other and act like fools trying to control the uncontrolable. MY friend, my Nyoka, he wanted to make the world his and meet pain with pain. I didn't believe in that the way he did, but he was the only person I knew I could trust, so I went with it."
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Date: 2020-11-29 03:28 am (UTC)"So that's it! I was wondering how gendered dynamics work in her society that she seemed to command so much control in the home. That's very common among older cultures. The women are keepers of money and magic and make the decisions that determine the future of their people. They don't give up that kind of power easily and goddesses have existed to reflect it."
Mantis leans in a bit closer to Tom and watches the man's drink as well. "Entropy is the natural state of all things. Balance is the ultimate craving of the universe, so it's inevitable that energy being spent will run out. People are afraid of that, though, and that's why they're so afraid of dying and losing what little they might gain. It's stupid. They hurt each other and act like fools trying to control the uncontrolable. MY friend, my Nyoka, he wanted to make the world his and meet pain with pain. I didn't believe in that the way he did, but he was the only person I knew I could trust, so I went with it."