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This would make an excellent trans allegory.

No, I don't know why I'm scrolling through ten years of your Tumblr to like every post I left un-liked. It started with "right, I should like the recent ones I haven't (there is a story there, but my brain) then I just kind of... am here now?

He didn’t know he’d miss the full moon turning him into an owl until it didn’t anymore.

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Zane: I don't know how to explain it. Standard doesn't have very good words for smells, and barely any for pheromones. I like masculinity. Chi Lebo: I see. And I smell masculine to you? Zane: Yeah. Masculine and reptiloid. Past that, it's kind of like explaining colors to a species without eyes, in a language that doesn't have names for them.

This is obviously because English doesn't have words for it, but I have a Watsonian explanation:

The Realm likes to destroy cultures. Whoever Alevetoms were before the Realm got them, they probably had words for that kind of thing. But, like constellations, they've been forgotten.

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Xur: ::sings:: Six little ships that I once flew, big ones, small ones, fast ones too. But one little ship with a plasma plume, it led the others with a vroom, vroom, vroom.

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Chi Lebo: ::gently:: How often were you happy as a child? Xur: ::admits:: Not often. […] Xur: ::murmurs:: I have a chance at a happy life. That's something.

Prime Xur wasn't happy as an adult, either. He went straight from pining for a guy who was mean to him, to committing treason. For the somewhat-less-mean guy who was now willing to love him.

…he has a chance at a happy life.

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Chi Lebo: I do want to have…so much sex with you. So much that my back cramps up, and I have to stop for a few hours in the middle for a nap. […] I want there to be days where we do nothing else.

I didn't remember until later, but Xur has memories of all-day sex. In X18, when he and Zane were making a goal out of falling in love, they'd examine their feelings and talk about examining their feelings, and go "I felt closer to loving you when…"

For Zane, that was sex. Specifically, just before orgasm.

Xur: ::trailing light bites along Zane's shoulder:: He feels closer to loving me during sex. I've scheduled a day where that's all we'll do. Chi Elora: Just one? Xur: We'll see. I don't just mean a day together. It's going to be an intense experience. We'll decide afterwards if we want to try it again.

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Chi Lebo: ::taking slow, deep, shuddery breaths:: I wonder what is the equivalent of this for you.

Xur: ::murmurs:: I've wondered, too.

He's wondered if it's similar to prostate stimulation.

From what I've read, not really. Maybe clits?

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Realization: Ancient is a conlang. If it were a real language, the Realm would've suppressed it.

This makes Xur the kind of nerd who gives himself a name in Sindarin.

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Xur: ::mmmf!:: Want… ::kisses him:: Want stills showing you off, too. ::a lingering kiss:: For me, for later. For him.

Line I imagined and couldn't find a way to work in:

Let me make you an offering to my god.

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Still that Xur sends to Chi Lebo. NSFW.

(Whenever fits, dunno when it'll come out of my queue.)

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Plot idea: Our heroes are being stalked by a Very Scary Monster that preys on their fear.

(Pennywise in spaaace!)

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Set of stills Xur sends to Chi Lebo. Zane blowing Xur, in Xur's kitchen. NSFW.

(Whenever fits, dunno when it'll come out of my queue.)

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Stealing this for one of Runar's childhoods.

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Plot idea: Our heroes are on a transport, scary things start happening, they have to figure out what's causing it (a monster) and how to survive it.

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This was a large chunk of Indominus and Zane's relationship.

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People don't understand the word ruthless. They think it means 'mean.' It's about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It's about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it. (Marco, Animorphs.)

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Probably terrible idea: Runar hangs out with Xur and/or Zane while they're hanging out with Chi Lebo and/or Syanne. If the subject of Syanne having a son comes up, he looks like he is Thinking Very Seriously.

Then the next time he's on Athosia, he sneaks off to the godswood.

Then the next time he hangs out with Chi Lebo and Syanne, he proudly presents them with a treesoul seed.

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