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[fendassor]

Today's question has been contributed by sweet siberianchan. Thank you very much :3

How do you imagine would their late lives - one or two centuries from now - look like?

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Comments

[sysann]

*laughs* I keep hoping they'll die together soon so I can stop worrying about them getting separated. --- Seregil already constantly complains that he's bored with everything in his early sixties. Just imagine him getting to two-hundred or more. -- If they do survive everything life throws at them, isn't 200 time for the mid-life crises? :P Seregil might go and marry a girl. *ducks, giggles and runs away*

[siberianchan]

... with all that new technology coming up and developing? With all these social changes bound to happen over the next 200 years? They'll witness the birth of print. They'll see newspapers born and will be insulted when they DON'T make it in the early attempts of yellow press every two weeks.

... they'll have to learn and adapt and see how to go on. ... I bet Seregil will end up constantly complaining about how life was better back then... just to take apart a gun to figure out how it works and marvel at the craftmanship... just to sneer about how Alec shoots way more true with his bow than any gun can hope to be. Hell, SEREGIL could shoot more true with a bow than anyone with an early musket.

[sysann]

*confused* I was under the impression that it's a fantasy world inspired by our world rather than set in it. Which century are we in "now" then? And where abouts are we?

[siberianchan]

Worlds do evolve, fantasy worlds included. We saw several queens, the current changing the political course from war to peace. We saw Tamir rebuilding Skala and working together with wizards, wizards changing their own course of history.

So... I BET there'll be new developments.
... and... from technology, social life and fashion I'd set "Nightrunners" as an equivalent of Europe, late 16th to late 18th century. Magic so far made the development of technologies like muskets or print unneccessary but I doubt this would be forever.
Fantasy worlds can evolve in a different pace and with different jumps than ours did, due to other logics and rules applied. But it evolves nonetheless.

[sysann]

*laughs* I know that worlds evolve. But they do evolve differently if they're build on a different premise.

Are you sure it's 16th century? There are things that remind me of earlier centuries. I think the issue of whether you wear your hair long or short is something they got up to in the times following the French conquest (1066). Making a fuss about special bows sounds like the hundred years war (14th-15th century). Whereas the rise of drama alongside the already beloved tradition of courtly poetry would be more 16th century. --- Which is *why* I find it so difficult to set it into a proper time frame.

[siberianchan]

Bows and swords would still be important because firearms are not a real thing yet, which can be brought down to "nobody discovered black powder yet for one reason or another" (I bet Thero will be the lucky guy.) Which might be in part due to magic.
War technology was not related to poetry or clothing. So why should their evolving be congruent with fashion and poetry?

[sysann]

Yes, but when they introduce Alec's birthday present at court everyone seems rather impressed. In the way they would be if it was a *new* type of bow.

Not really, no. But my point is - the fashion as far as I can tell is different from the courtly traditions and the weapons are different from either of those. My sole point is that I find it very difficult to place where which of these traditions is currently - making it hard to tell which century we're supposedly in. And in turn making any prognosis on what the future development would be in any field of life rather complicated.

[siberianchan]

... I doubt ANY of these folks ever had been farther away than mid Mycena and equally Northerners that far away rarely get to Rhiminee, so my guess is on "Wolde is known for wool and gold and not for it's fine bows; they probably thought they shoot with simple sticks". XD (considering they see Mycenans as provincal the free cities in the upper north probably seem outright barbaric

[fendassor]

Well yes, if death then let them die together, but on the other hand, no, we don't want them to die! ^^

Hmm, mid-life crises, oh dear... I don't even want to imagine how that'd turn out O_O

[sysann]

Yes. But see... as long as they're alive they can be separated. But for all we hear they'll be together if they die together. Thus... *nods* (And no, I don't otherwise want them to die, as you know. I just don't want them to get separated.)

*snickers* Seregil could just decide to always dress up for the next 200 years. I wonder what Alec would say. For all we know he does find Seregil sexy either way. :P --- And after all they're both bi, not gay, even if they do clearly prefer men.

[fendassor]

Yes, I get your point and it's a valid one, though it would be very sad and heartbreaking nonetheless.

Hooray for cross-dressing ^^ Guess Alec would be rather indulgent, with unbelievable patience and not be too bothered ;)

[siberianchan]

When they get separated and both still live they have a chance of finding ack together again though...

... and... well, considering Alec's mile-wide jealous streak... Seregil marrying some girl would be... ... ... interesting. VERY interesting...

[fendassor]

Well, the separation we're afraid of is one dies the other gets left behind all alone ;_; That would be absolutely horrible!!! ;A;

I guess interesting doesn't even cover it ^^ That might turn into a full-blown battle: Alec finding a girl, getting her pregnant - Seregil getting all jealous over it (no matter how often he pretends he'd be okay with Alec having kids) does some other stupid thing that tops that - and so it goes on a while and finally, they see how silly they are being, make up (emphatically),make sure the girls, kids and whomever or whatever else gets the situation and knows how to reach them, leaving them well cared for, they dash off to some new adventures - mid-life crisis thankfully over once and for all. ;)

[siberianchan]

Hrm, that would imply they would not care whether they hurt each other or not, because... they both KNOW how much this would hurt...
... .... so... ... ... FUCK, NO THANKS FOR THE PLOTBUNNY, FEN!

[fendassor]

:P
And that's the reason Seregil wouldn't run off and marry some girl in the first place - mid-life crisis or not.

[siberianchan]

Yeah, now if you PLEASE take that damn rabbit back that's making a home inside my head?