Monster Bingo 3.0

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Monster Bingo Overflow! Card Harpy and Card Nymph.

Let me know if you're interested in spice with someone whose never had spice.

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[He goes bright red.] I'm not even old enough to be married! I think!

I can't actually remember that age.

[More like he's going with what he does know and sees as similar.]

....why are you wet?

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...You don't need to be married to kiss people, you know.

Anyway, I'm just damp from being a siren for a while, that's all. [Waving a hand.] This one's my third card.

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I know that. But you do for a lover.

[Maybe.]

[He doesn't know.]

I was just looking for similar squares.

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You totally don't for a lover.

[Grinning in amusement.]

So, clothes swap ♪?

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What? Yes you do. That's who you marry. Your lover.

...yes. I guess the plants can just...soak up the water real fast.

[His clothes are more like this.]

[But he is going somewhere out of the way to strip.]

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You can have more than one lover.

[But heading off to strip down, too.]

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I...

Actually, that might be fine. [Listen, Dana Terrace is for All The Queer in witches, so poly is Probably Fine.] But lover is the title for someone you marry when you don't want to gender them.

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Is that how your people use it? We usually use it to refer to people you explicitly haven't married, but are still intimate with, especially in affairs.

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....what's an affair?

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An extra marital relationship without permission from your actual spouse or significant other.

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...isn't married supposed to be like...the person you choose to bind your life to?

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It is, but there's a lot of people who don't honor that.

Anyway, you ready?

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...that's...

Horrible.

[He will hand over his clothes and hold out his hand for his.]

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Are you the type to be serious about romance, then?

[Tossing his own clothes over, time to put on this pep stuff.]

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You don't break your word.

[He is going to start pulling on Izanagi's clothes.]

If you promise someone, you do everything you can to keep it. Especially when its something as important as making them your family.

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The noble type, huh?

[The clothes are going to be a bit small for him, but it's workable.]

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My uncle is the Emperor. I work for him.

Its important that I set an example.

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I can't even begin to list all of the people in power who were found to have affairs.

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Why weren't they killed when they proved untrustworthy?

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Because people's decisions on country policy aren't considered connected to their decisions in their personal lives.

[Among

way too many socio-political reasons he's not going to get into.]

And also, because people aren't executed for things like that to begin with.

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A person who would break their word to someone who they promised their life to cannot be trusted to keep their promises to the public.

If you demand power, you have to honor being given that power. If you abuse it, you should be punished.

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So harsh...

The matters of the heart are a little more fickle than the rules and laws that bind people, aren't they?

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When you're asking people to trust you with their home, you have to be better than that.

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Complete restraint over your own emotions is an impossible fantasy.

[All changed!]

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Complete restraint over your actions is possible.

And you don't just betray a person in a moment. You have to decide on someone else, you have to get them to agree, you have to perform the act. And that's just from knowing a little about that sort of thing. Who knows how many extra steps are involved in actual practice.

[He is also changed. It is big on him, but that's when he pulls in the plants. First is a vine belt. Then a leafy vest, and flowers growing up his legs or green carnations and snowdrops. Because he remembers the cupcakes.]