Eclipse Worldbuilding Info

[DanielH]

How does society generally treat homodynamic relationships?

I think some of my earlier trouble with the level of discrimination against people with nonstandard roles for their gender was that I was trying to import real-world transphobia into my mental model, which isn’t actually a good fit.

[Alicorn]

Homodynamic relationships are weird (I mean, unless they're both switches). Like... who tops. How do you do anything. What do you do. If you want to date subs aren't you really a dom. Etc.

There's not actually a good analogue for transphobia in Eclipse. For one thing, mages can learn to do really complete gender swaps and you can make a mint doing that if you're willing to gouge your customers a little bit (but still charge less for better results faster than doctors in real life). And gender's not that important to begin with. Hmmm, I think they even just do gender neutral bathrooms, come to think of it.

[Ezra]

Dom and sub bathrooms, or no divided bathrooms?

[Alicorn]

No divided bathrooms. Remember, kids are role-less.

[anthusiasm]

You mentioned dynamic-based school uniforms. Are there all-dom and all-sub schools?

[Alicorn]

Ooh, good question. I bet there are some but they're not as common as gender segregated schools in our world (which would maybe have a couple examples in Eclipse that decided to go a different route once they noticed not all girls were subs and not all boys doms, but really only a couple). You can't have, say, a role-segregated elementary school. But I bet there's the odd all-subs high school so that the subs can learn without overbearing doms talking over them, occasional all-dom high schools so they don't get distracted by the cute subs, and a handful of segregated colleges for people who prefer like-roled classmates for whatever reason.

[Ezra]

I bet non-co-ed dorms happen often enough, though.

[Alicorn]

Sure.

[Bluelantern]

Went down a list, ask if it misses anybody you're curious about:

Alexes: ace, nondynamic, present dom to avoid harassment and hassle, a girl one might present sub instead especially if her sister was accessible to fend off dickheads but the instantiated one is a boy

Alice: Dom, not a switch Deep Down but enjoys dating switches and mixing it up a bit for fun.

Carlisle: Dom, in a very sweet looking-after-partner way.

Chelsea: Switch, presents sub if that's more convenient.

Edward: Sub but awkward about it.

Elspeth: Lowkey dom, retains very low sex drive though.

Emmett: Switch.

Esme: Sub, finds standard issue doms scary.

Griffin: Awkward, underconfident, but dom.

Jasper: Switch, pretends dom.

Kanim: Sub.

Kerron: Dom.

Minnie: Sub. And a huge brat.

Nathan: Dom.

Rosalie: Dom.

Soph: Sub.

Zeus: Sub but can do service toppy stuff quite comfortably.

Any particular reason why Alice is a Dom? Why Jasper and Emmett are switches? No suprise on the Rosalie front.

[Alicorn]

I don't have elaborate reasoning for them. I was probably influenced by wanting all the important pairings to match up even if ported into Eclipse though.