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ledbythewind) wrote2013-03-06 09:43 pm
ledbythewind) wrote2013-03-06 09:43 pm
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[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?]
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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And I suspect that some people can't become all that muscular even if they tried.
[He's pretty sure that he can't-- not even the swimming he did when he was younger managed to put any sort of real muscle on his frame. He's always been slender; delicate, even.]
But what is a "jock"? I've never heard that word before.
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In other words, they maintain their status by attacking everyone who is weaker, much like animals or monsters. Then again, there are no shortage of humans who do the same thing in my world as well.
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[Yep, that sounds familiar. He's been around politics for long enough to know that it's basically this exact principle, just polished up and given a fancy facade and pretense of actually accomplishing things.]
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[It's kind of a universal concept, which is unfortunate as it is familiar.]
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[Which is too bad, but unsurprising.]
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