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mitr'a, flatly: fucking

erik, momentarily speechless:

mitr'a, still flat: i'm joking. the monk was actually copying my homework

anyway i think mitr'a would have snitched on widargelt right away. you don't contaminate a guy's samples, man, even if he's from sharlayan. that's so rude

i already agree with you, you can calm down

*points* my class

mitr'a: it is very impressive how you hide good qualities underneath all of yourself

erik: oh, be gone with you

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esteem and i

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Alt otp for mitr'a I just thought of: Link. Maybe like a missed connections 'we spent an entire afternoon roaming the forest and fed each other weird stews from our campfires. I never actually got your name' (did they talk? at all? or just commune in silence)

oh wow...

i think link showed him how to make potions like you do in botw, and mitr'a showed him how to repair gear in 2 seconds with aether, and then they went on their way like the 'same hat... same hat!' comic without ever speaking a word. they'll always remember each other fondly

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can i say all three things one after the other?

was there literally no other animal you could think of to give the gift of flight to??

yeah ok. why not. make the manatees fly. like the whales, they too belong to the skies

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wear robes do magic serve cunt

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Good Mornin'

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yeah i somehow don't think that's what it looked like exactly

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Fusing "gay catgirls in love" with "catgirls who act like real cats" to produce a couple who occasionally just randomly decide to have a full on powerbomb-my-girlfriend-through-the-coffee-table wrestling match with absolutely no preamble or warning, scaring the hell out of everyone in the general vicinity.

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steaming off the balcony is white--

is winter snow.

eddying impossibly; the breeze

has not yet blown.

still, exchanging stillness into glint

and crystal gleam

garish any other size; minute,

it's learned to seem.

passing motion will intrude on lithe

and swirling shapes;

yes, inevitably over, ends

not for escape.

rumble in the floorboards: there, the heat

has trundled free.

all intrusions end in kind, and still

in stillness' lee.

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a surprisingly pleasant result

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Hmmmm, now I'm curious: Mitr'a and Severian (sleep deprived alchemist who's name I totally didn't have to look up just now)? Bc on the one hand, he's a scientist, but then again he lives in Ul'dah (derogatory)...

been rolling my brain about but i don't think i can do anything better here than Mad Science Buddies For Life after the lvl 50 duty. maybe as his best friend instead of cid?

i'm sure they'd have fun creating alchemical crimes against humanity and terrorizing the guild, but the problem here is that neither of them would even think about romance at ALL, ever, and unless severian initiates (doubtful?) they would not be having sex either. i'm sure there'd be bets though

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went looking into skewed gender ratios and found 2 fun options

one is already a mammal, so that's a bonus:

Wood lemmings produce about three times as many female as male offspring. This is due to an unusual genetic system where they have two different types of X chromosomes, the normal X and a mutated X*. Females with that mutation on their X*-chromosome inhibit the male determining effect of the Y chromosome. This leads to three genetic types of females: XX, X*X and X*Y and one genetic type of males XY. The X*Y females are fertile, but only produce X* ova, which means they only produce female offspring. It is not fully known the extent to which nature balances out the differences in the adult population, but sampling studies seem to suggest males do make up as little as 25% of the population at equilibrium. Females with abnormal genotype (XO, XXY, X*YY) occur regularly. The high female sex ratio may be an adaptation against local mate competition and inbreeding during population low points.

if you consider that both viera and miqo'te send their men into the Wilderness Thunderdome, that would allow only the hardy and lucky to survive, giving us the 20% male ratio. seems like a fun option to work with!

now

the other occurs in insects, but considering we've got mad scientists and animate plants and magic floating about, this is easily solved:

These bacteria can infect many different types of organs, but are most notable for the infections of the testes and ovaries of their hosts. Wolbachia species are ubiquitous in mature eggs, but not mature sperm. Only infected females, therefore, pass the infection on to their offspring. Wolbachia bacteria maximize their spread by significantly altering the reproductive capabilities of their hosts, with four different phenotypes: - Male killing occurs when infected males die during larval development, which increases the rate of born, infected females. - Feminization results in infected males that develop as females or infertile pseudofemales. - Parthenogenesis is reproduction of infected females without males. - Cytoplasmic incompatibility is the inability of Wolbachia-infected males to successfully reproduce with uninfected females or females infected with another Wolbachia strain. This reduces the reproductive success of those uninfected females and therefore promotes the infecting strain.

from what i'm reading it varies by species but hey, it seems to be able to induce resistance to a bunch of viruses and illnesses in its hosts, so it's not all bad!

if you want to join the ixal in being horrified about what the allagans got up to with your people, this is the one for you. also the name amuses me

anyway i'll be thinking about these

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Do you always have to be alone

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Girl help she batted Hydaelyn

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When you are a classical musician and the public asks you to play Queen …