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"- well I know what that is, I just didn't know the word. Yeah, how would that not be about mating? What else would it be about?

Um. Our vampires are. A fake invention that we put in stories to make them sexier. Hence everyone's reaction."

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- How is a bloodsucking monster se… wait, don't answer that, I think I got the idea, - Toy-Mun nods. - As for rape, it's nearly always done for punishment or humiliation rather than just for mating: those who can get away with rape and not have their mating parts chopped off can normally also afford seducing someone by less… violent means. By the way, for the same reason it happens male-on-male somewhat often - more often than desire to actually mate another male is found, I'd wager.

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He glances around while scribbling, now with added care and spaces between everything. "- Is this a thing we know of, that happens anywhere on Gahai. Rape-as-display-of-power, of the kind that would happen indiscriminately of recipient sex."

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"- yeah, primates, dolphins, some ruminants, weirdly."

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"That's hardly most of rape, though, even within those species, most rape that happens is about mating."

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Back to Toy-Mun. "So. Before Scoryu cut in, I was going to - tigrans. What are they like?" Kwaiets is maybe about to explode from curiosity, but not obviously so if you don't know him and aren't very skilled at people-reading.

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Toy-Mun evidently isn't - and would find the curiosity normal anyway.
- Have y'all missed the chopping-off part? Most men - sorry, males - have a... mindless fear, I'd say, of even the tiniest threat to their mating parts. As for your question, Kwaiets… - another piece of paper is torn from the notebook, and a quick sketch of what can only be described as a bipedal leopard and a bipedal lion comes in. Pointing at the leopard, Toy-Mun goes: - The standard tigran is like this, with yellowish-to-brownish fur all over their body - I think I saw a grey one once, though. The ruling caste is like this, - the other picture gets pointed at. - Wo… females have breasts, like humans and elves, although, just like elves, rarely too big - this is different from other big cats, whose nipples are normally too tiny to even be called breasts - and, I think, there are usually more than two in those, while tigrans have two just like us?

A quick look around. Pause. Obvious careful thinking.

- You… do have breasts, right? Your females? The… humps of fat around nipples that begin to grow when the girl reaches a certain age?

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Choked snort.

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". . . No?" He pauses writing momentarily to squint at Toy-Mun for hints that this mostly-apparently-human alien is ethnically divergent from Gahai humans in other equally-major ways, and . . . does not have enough experience with this to tell at all.

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The drawn tigrans are FASCINATING. Everyone takes every possible opportunity to stare raptly. Scoryu tries to draw more 'realistic' versions, again with questionable results.

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Now this clearly piques Toy-Mun's interest. Their cheeks blush further.
- So… if I drew this before… you would decide I'm exaggerating? - the next picture is that of a naked human girl head-to-toe in profile, with what would've been called by Americans a C-cup and somewhat-similar size of buttocks. Obviously, Toy-Mun themself doesn't seem to sport such shapes.

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Somehow this is managing to keep getting weirder.

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Scribble "Why are breast sizes so important?" He has inferred this from Toy-Mun's apparent attention to that part of the drawing! "Is that one - normal?" 

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This seems to be a somewhat personal issue to Toy-Mun: their speech gets faster, their cheeks blush again, and they stop correcting themself when saying gendered words.
- Many human and tigran men find larger breasts and, ahem, butts more attractive. There are girls with bigger shapes than this, there are girls with smaller - variation is huge, and there's only limited link to how big the woman otherwise is. Elves tend on the slimmer side, so usually more like this, - an elven girl's outline appears nearby, with A-cups and smaller butt - though the picture also sports a pointed ear. - And some win a f&%king prize-of-suckiness and stay almost flat like a twelve-year-old forever. Although it does have its benefits, of course, not limiting movement and all. Next you tell me your females don't bleed every month or so?

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"- Oh no, we have that, that sucks. It's one of the things like bad backs and clumsiness that's obviously the result of a recent hard evolutionary bottleneck focused on the human nervous system, though the story about how is kind of winding.

How common are breasts, in your animals? What do they do?"

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Breath in. Breath out.
- Other than attract male ogling? Well, you feed your children with the nipples, but that happens in beings that don't have these humps of fat around them, too. I don't know why some beasts have bigger ones, like cows or humans, and some don't. I'd bet that it was selection of sorts: men preferred slightly breastier women, they left more children, girls among those were breastier, and so on, like when you select for a dog breed or something. And I have no idea how or why this started. But it certainly does give those… less curvy… reasons to hate their own bodies.

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"Uh, our cows don't have anything that looks like that? Neither do any of our species!" Scribble scribble "If your humans and your something-that-evolved-from-lemurs-or-literal-cats both have them, I'm guessing it must be pretty widespread among your mammals?"

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"Figuring out the meta-rules by which things are selectively-bred into existence is this cult's entire thing, by the way."

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- It's… well, other than in sapients, it's mostly found in beings that are kept for milk, like cows or goats. For those, it's rather easy to imagine they were selected for that because it's easier to milk them this way. Oh, and elephants - no idea why those have breasts, but they do. Speaking of… what are ways your men and… SORRY! males and females are different? Is there any way you can tell one's sex without baring their mating parts? Because we kinda have many, although I somehow managed to skip, well, most of these. Which was very helpful, too - our societies are… mostly strict about which sex should do what, and in different ways across countries and races.

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"That blows! How so?"

<💭>Nailed it. Tact master, master of tact.</💭>

"Um, we can just tell? Females have - faces that are thinner, and just - differently shaped. There are body differences, females are thinner-shouldered, softer, usually shorter, but those are less obvious under clothes or from a distance sometimes, and the face is definitely enough anyway. Can you not - tell, which of us is which?"

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Toy-Mun looks at them in clear surprise - and, seemingly, an attempt to evaluate who's who.

- If I were pressed with a blade at my throat to give an answer, I would wager Scoryu is female and others are male, but I would be very unsure - none of you sport clearly manly shoulders, square jaw, facial hair or… well, anything recognizable, really. Could you have said whether I'm male or female before I threw a tantrum about girls who hate themselves?

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"Well, you didn't let us bet on it, so now we don't know, do we."

<💭>'Blade to my throat', arcana what an idiom in lieu of betting culture</💭>

"Um, I mean, how does the sex-restriction thing shake out? For your race, and 'country', for example."

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Toy-Mun smiles ruefully:
- Indeed I didn't. Let's just say that in my village, when a girl picks up a sword, she risks way more than money. Women are expected to stay home, tend to household, and obey their husbands… the men that chose them. And yes, I said "chose them" - a woman would have little choice herself, it would be arranged between the families. I guess it's not too surprising I stole my father's sword and ran away after he died, along with my older sister. To give an opposite example, demons have female rule, and tigrans have a complicated system with female priests and male rulers. Is this… sufficient info before you tell me who's who among you? - Toy-Mun's voice - now it seems rather safe to assume "her" voice - shakes a bit on the last phrase. - Or do I first need to place a bet?

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". . . Gahai used to be like that, hundreds of years ago. We shaped up once we got richer and smarter. You can bet if you want?"

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They seem to be getting used to the gender words! Except for Pel, who is mostly not. Baby steps.

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