Eclipse Worldbuilding Info

[Moriwen]

Alice totally read as a dom to me in original Twilight at least. There's the bit about her first meeting with Jasper where she goes "well, it took you long enough" and Jasper says "sorry to keep you waiting, ma'am." So I definitely approve of that choice.

[MaggieoftheOwls]

Is there a thing about doms having long hair and looking kind of hippyish the way there is with men in real life? Because I was having a conversation with Hypothetical Dom Edie and she was expressing reluctance to have her hair cut short and I was like "didn't we agree that a boy you would have short hair? This is pretty much the same thing culturally speaking" and she was like, "well, yes, but." And it took me a while to get it out of her but the difference is that you always know you're going to be a boy (assuming you're cis) so those social mores would have been ingrained in Hypothetical His whole life. Hypothetical Dom Edie probably had long hair as a little kid (unless there are social mores concerning the hair of small children I don't know?) and would be reluctant to cut it when she figured out her role.

[Alicorn]

Yeah, you can fuck with it if you want to. You'll still look like whatever if you wear the right clothes.

[MaggieoftheOwls]

So I was thinking about Charles and Erik in this setting, since, obviously if I'm making up stuff for Hypothetical Eclipse Edie and Emily they have to have parents. Sooo...

Charles is Charlotte. Brian Xavier would have been a fairly normal person, in terms of "you know boys can be subs and girls can be doms, obviously," but Sharon is Socially Conservative and Brian dies when Charlotte is very small, as normal for the template, so she gets brought up having it drilled into her head that You Are A Sub, and she doesn't really question this until she starts dating, when she discovers that she is really, really not. At the same time, her mother is disappointed in her enough already, so she just...doesn't say anything about it, but also quietly stops dating, claiming the desire to focus on her studies. She isn't totally celibate up to the point where she meets Erik, but when she has sex she puts up her hair and goes out somewhere no one's going to recognize her and brings home a cute-but-not-looking-for-more-than-a-one-night-stand sub for a bit of fun.

Erik, on the other hand, has Adolescent Erik Trauma, which means that he's really not comfortable being as vulnerable as he feels presenting as a sub would make him, even though he totally is, so he presents dom and may in fact go through a disastrous relationship or two this way before meeting Charlotte. The two of them are instantly attracted to each other and may in fact try and fail to go about this as though each was the role they presented as before they figured out that they were both faking their roles. So publicly speaking Erik's the dom and Charlotte's the sub but actually it's totally the other way around.

[Moriwen]

Awwwwwwwwww write it write it write it

[ErinFlight]

I was talking to Pedro, and I think it'd be interesting to write a dom autistic character in this setting.
There could be a natural tendency to exhibit many "sub" traits such as avoiding eye contact.
Pedro suggested the character could play it as, "You are beneath my notice." which I like.

I wonder if fake eye contact would be convincing in this setting? In the real world, looking at the bridge of the nose, forehead, corner of eye etc. looks like eye contact to most people, but in a world where eye contact is something people use a signal, maybe not.

[Alicorn]

I don't see why fake eye contact would be easier to detect in Eclipse than in the real world.

[atheistcanuck]

People use eye contact as a signal in the real world too you know. For...stuff.

[Adelene]

I would halfway expect a dommy autie in Eclipse to go the complete other way - with eye contact acknowledged as a dominance thing, it seems like it would be used in ways that mesh pretty well with how our instincts about it usually shake out (i.e. that it's hostile), resulting in someone with a distinct tendency to stare people down. For a value of 'people' that includes parents, teachers, psych professionals, other doms, the police...

[anthusiasm]

Is there any kind of stigma about casual sex in conservative/religions communities?