[ SECRET POST #3386 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3386 ⌋

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How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[(Anonymous)]

You know how there's a lot of fictional species out there who only fall in love once or only ever have one sexual mate in their whole life, or at least until their partner's death?

I just wanted to tally how many different species with this are out there.

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[sparrow_lately]

I bet the Ood do, those adorable loving motherfuckers

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[(Anonymous)]

There's both elves and dwarves in LOTR, but in kind of opposite ways - elves only have sex with one partner ever (with like, a couple of widowing exceptions like Finwe but those are rare) and having sex = getting married, but it's not clear if they can fall in love more than once as long as they don't have sex. Meanwhile, dwarves only fall in love once and fall in love permanently (if their love is unrequited they will stay single all their life) but it's not mentioned if they can have sex with other partners who they aren't actually in love with.

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[(Anonymous)]

This suddenly makes the idea of Legolas/Gimli sound potentially really complicated.

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[(Anonymous)]

In fic, it usually leads to a lot of unrequited pining or misunderstandings.

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[(Anonymous)]

So....what would happen if an elf mistakenly had sex with a non-elf who didn't feel think that way about sex?

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[(Anonymous)]

If the elf is in love with the person and wanted to be with them forever and it was a big misunderstanding I believe they'd consider themselves married to the non-elf even if the non-elf isn't married to them, and pine for centuries and probably compose a really long sad song about it?

If an elf is actually raped, they die from shock. Don't know if that also applies with, say, rape by deception or intoxication or underage molestation though.

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[philstar22]

Elves, depending on whether you accept the Laws and Customs Among the Eldar as your canon or not. Dwarves.

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life? *Spoilers for SWTOR*

[eleganceliberty]

In the Star Wars universe, Cathar (a feline humanoid species) mate for life and never remarry/mate if the other person dies.

Granted, that's all non-canon since the EU reboot, but it was nice that the writer for the recent SWTOR expansion remembered this in regards to Aric Jorgan if you did the romance between him and a female Trooper. (It's not explicitly stated, but he does essentially tell you 'Please don't joke about that' when you coyly ask him if he replaced you romantically, when he talks about his new XO in Havoc Squad, who happens to be female)

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life? *Spoilers for SWTOR*

[(Anonymous)]

Along those same EU lines, I think Wookies mate for life too?

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[diet_poison]

Most of them? Or at least most of the sapient ones? People tend to model aliens largely from humans. It takes a lot of creativity to avoid that.

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[(Anonymous)]

...sweetie, humans don't mate for life. "Mate for life" means "only falls in love once/only has sex with one partner in their life and never gets divorced."

Are you a fucking moron or something?

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[dancingmouse]

Don't be an ass.

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[diet_poison]

Whether humans mate for life (and plenty of humans do even if it's not the majority, so you are technically incorrect) is a cultural concept that is often portrayed as being the rule in media, and therefore is what humanoids would most likely be based on.

Most of the time things people base on humans are based on overarching cultural concepts of humans, not statistical studies of how humans actually work.

I should have thought to clarify this last night, but I also feel like in this context it should be clear what I meant, and anyway your response is completely unwarranted.

Re: How many different fictional species can you think of who mate for life?

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't know about the Tolkien Elves, but Fred Perry did a version of this with elves in the first Gold Digger story. (It's played a bit strange, basically to make Gina look like an ass.)