I have to be honest: I don't really get the point of this ask? We're twenty-three chapters into this comic and if you're not already seeing these things be the norm, then I feel that's all the information you need?
I feel we've made it clear that stuff like this is just not relevant to the universe. You may as well ask what if Alight had a gun or w/e and could force Careful to stay under duress that way? We just don't need to cover these topics in order to tell the story that we want to tell. And we find it tiring that these topics are becoming a staple in xenofiction to the point that we get asks that are along the lines of "this comic is nice, but where's the rampant babykilling?" every other month or so. oof
Which brings me to another point: a lot of this content being featured in xenofiction is either based on bad research or shock value. Because even if the topic is handled like a whole circus and without due care, it still draws in a crowd. It also makes up for a bad narrative because yeah, My Pride was written with the consistency of brittle timber but it doesn't matter because it "incorporates real life lion behaviour": that means this show is smart! Except the show gets its lion facts wrong 9 times out of 10 and the realism is actually highly contradictory in some cases like "well, the reason the lions are so ableist is because of nature!". No, because there's been plenty of cases where irl lions look out for their disabled?
In fact, treating the weak and vulnerable as lesser is more in line with the "human morality" that you've mentioned, anon. And I get it: the My Pride (or just general xenofiction at this point) brain rot is real but "we know that human morality can't be applied to nature": you do know irl lionesses defend their cubs from being killed by rogue males, right? That infanticide is not the be all or end all of a cub's fate if a rival male who isn't their father happens to take over? And that the females of a lot of species - not just lions - other than us can turn down a male if they want to? And then there's the additional issue where quote unquote realism is not our goal here and our lions are clearly anthropomorphic. They have obvious human attributes but... you're curious as to what happens in regards to guy strolling in and killing their kids and forcing them to be their spouse? Given that even irl lionesses defend themselves from males trying their luck, I feel like that explains itself.
And perhaps this is just me but maybe work a bit on how you ask about topics like this in future too, please? You've already owned that SA is a sensitive topic, it shouldn't viewed as fun, random bits of trivia in relation to a story's universe. Just sayin' - RJ
