ledbythewind | [Voice/Action]

[Ah, Valentine's Day. The one experiment a year Richard hates most, for a variety of reasons. Granted, this year wasn't TOO terrible, as he was spared the unfortunate fate of falling in love with anyone under the effects of the experiment... but that didn't stop other people from from falling in love/lust with HIM, much to his dismay. And that's left him with many things to think about, as have some of the reactions to the experiment that he's seen from other people. Which leads him to ponder...]

Indulge my curiosity: what sorts of things are considered traditionally "masculine" where you come from?

[A bit later on, Richard will head out of the house on a shopping trip to All Passions and the item store, where he can be found looking for a new wardrobe and a few other things, probably as a result of some of the answers he received to his question. After picking out a bunch of things to take home with him, he chooses something new to wear home as well: cargo pants, combat boots, and a leather motorcycle jacket, because all of those things are super-masculine, right? Alas, on someone with the approximate build of a toothpick and delicate features like Richard has, the end result is a bit ridiculous, but don't tell him that. (Or do, your choice.) He can't quite bring himself to cut his hair - he's still far too proud of it - so instead he opts to pull it back into a ponytail.

There. Much better, in his eyes. Now the question is, what will his friends and housemates think of this?]

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Or both. Both is probably better.

Just how often does this sort of thing happen in your world? You make it sound like this is a common occurrence.

Um, well, at university... every time a male sports team goes out for drinks. Considering how many sports teams there are and how often students drink... good chance of running into someone whenever you go to the pub.

Your world sounds like a rather interesting place. Although I suppose the more important question would be just how many people there don't end up wearing dresses at some point.

It's all done for fun. And only certain guys.

Then of course there is the long tradition of crossdressing in pantomime.

In other words, it sounds like the "certain guys" outweigh the rest of the men.

Not really. Those particular sports team. The most masculine guys. They can od it with impunity. Anyone else? They'd get trouble for it.

... I see.

[Okay, so maybe this world isn't quite as awesome as it sounded at first, because that part sounds like pretty much every other world.]

Sorry. That's how things go.

In some of the states of the Commonwealth, the place I live, you'd be executed if people thought you were gay. I come from one of the more... liberal areas.

[Executed. That word makes his blood run cold. There are worlds where he could be executed just for what he is?]

And what if they were mistaken? What if the person wasn't really gay after all?

Well, unless you know a really good necromancer or know a particularly benevolent god...

It's horrible. I hate it but... politics. It screws things up.

Politics tend to make a mess of everything-- that is one thing that is a constant across all worlds.

[He's a king and even he hates politics. He hates them largely BECAUSE he's king.]

It does seem that way, yeah. I have family involved in politics. It left me disillusioned at a young age.

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