#all of this insane lore is mostly just bg noise to explain why the penilian government is so deep into conquest shit rn HDKQJDK

[lycankeyy]

Fc!Penilians are inherently polygamous. Family structures center around a "head-of-household" and several subordinates. This is the closest thing they have to gender roles and why astrobiologists on earth sometimes categorize them as a matriarchal species, as the head-of-house is typically the one who has kids ("birth-parent") and the subordinates are the ones who fertilize and proceed to care for the resulting young ("care-parent"); all these roles have nothing to do with Gender Roles or whatever as Penilians are unisex, it's mostly based on personality. Also in modern times as culture evolves it's not unheard of for these roles to be broken anyway, especially if the head-of-house doesn't have an important job or anything and can afford to take care of the nymphs, though more conservative penilians see this as self-demeaning

Anyway all that is to say penilian-human relationships aside, fc!Cassandra's kinda-committed relationship to the rest of the Goth Punks is relatively standard for penilians, while Damien eventually forming a monogamous relationship with Otis, especially one with unclear "roles", would be considered . Very Queer HDKAJDK

Really funny how fc!Damien makes fun of Cassandra for forming a "family" unit with aliens and then proceeds to turn around and form a monogamous relationship with an alien. Both of which are equally unheard of in fc!penilain culture