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majorshatterandhare · 2 years ago

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Here’s what I’m thinking.

Orpheus and Narcissus meet at work. They become good friends.

This leads to Eurydice and Echo meeting and becoming friends. And then they become very close.

Eurydice and Echo begin dating. Orpheus and Narcissus are like “uhh, okay, yeah that’s fine.”

It continues and eventually Narcissus and Orpheus realize they love each other too and want to date. Eurydice and Echo are obviously fully supportive; they had been expecting for a while by this point.

Then they all love each other and Narcissus and Eurydice, and Orpheus and Echo are able to get closer and their metamor relationships become alterous.

Side note: in the song Iphis, it seems to me, that the City is accepting of trans people but not gay people, and I think that’s weird and funny.

Eurydice/Orpheus/Narcissus/Echo polycule.

Orpheus dates Eurydice and Narcissus,

Narcissus dates Orpheus and Echo,

Echo dates Narcissus and Eurydice,

And Eurydice dates Echo and Orpheus.

It’s a square.

#the mechanisms #eurydice orpheus narcissus echo polycule #what’s the ship name for that #metamors are any people dating the same person while not dating each other #i also thoroughly enjoy using the term ‘dating’ for queerplatonic and alterous relationships #a poly site I saw defined alterous as the cishet version of queerplatonic #but my understanding of it from aro sources is that while they are similar they are also different #and those definitions will depend on the person your talking to #and what a qpr looks like vs what an alterous relationship looks like will depend on the people in the relationship #thats kind of the whole point of the words #the way understand and conceptualize them definitely includes overlap #but i see queer platonic as based on platonic attraction but with the addition of commitment #since that was the purpose of the word from the aro community #on the other hand i see alterous as in between romantic and platonic or simply ‘other than’ the named types of attraction #so a relationship can be both alterous and queer platonic but it can also be one or the other #sorry for the whole tags lecture about metamors and alterous and queer platonic #but i want to have some clarity to what I’m saying #and i don’t know how many mechs fans are aro or poly #shoutout to my fellow poly aros reading this #i also think that sexually neither narcissus and eurydice not orpheus and echo would fornicate just the two of them #but if there’s at least one shared romantic partner participating (in one of the many forms participating can take) then they are open toit #especially if all of the polycule is present #there may or may not be direct contact between those diagonal pairs #veered near nsft there. but i tried so keep it vague because i know there are minors in the fandom here #so if you are a minor reading that. im sure you are aware of sex anyway.#just dont *respond/comment* on that bit please and thank you #i don’t know if anyone reads the tags this far #if you did you get a gold star #oh additionally. my understanding is that queer platonic as a term can be used by any #however i subscribe to a liberal usage of the word

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