#bren cameron

[talesoferyngalen]

Fun fact: the akinator could NOT guess that I was thinking of Bren Cameron

Eat shit, question man

[buggy-about-town]

Let’s play cars with Alien Uncle!

[babischlong-six]

[jarshaker]

sad wet man Bren

[froxictog]

It's well established that atevi (or at least the Ragi atevi of the aishidi'tat we spend most of our time with) have a strong preference for felicitous over infelicitous numbers, of which 3 and 2 are very much the former and the latter. This is so pronounced that the plans that would become Shai-shan were reworked to incorporate three hatches instead of two.

Given this, the propensity for pair-bonding in atevi romantic (as we would call them between humans) relationships seems odd. Pairs are, after all, intrinsically unstable.

But! Most of our data here comes from atevi formal marriages intended to produce children. And we know that atevi marriages are usually limited in scope; "til death do us part" is very unusual, and a marriage contract usually has provisions for when and how the marriage will be dismantled. So, my theory here is that dyadic relationships are specific to relationships with the intent of procreation -- the marriage is an unstable pair, but the addition of a child will make it a stable triple and bring it into felicity, and once the child is grown, the marriage winds down as well to produce three individuals.

This implies that in non-procreative relationships, we should expect to see pairs relatively rarely; "let's have a child" requires two atevi, but "let's fuck" requires (or at least, is more comfortable with) at least three.

And that, in turn, implies that Jago suffers from a persistent feeling that, to be a good partner, she should either be looking for a third, or getting her alien boyfriend pregnant.

[robotshellyeah]

Bren Cameron is TWENTY SEVEN years old???

this guy should not be singlehandedly upholding interspecies relations, he should be at the club

[boredkitt545]

I wonder if Bren ever catches himself focusing on numbers on the mainland. Realizing he pumps lotion and sprays cologne either three or five times. Always twisting the cheap retail store hair tie around his hair three times. Chews exactly the right amount the right way.

That he buys his mother and sister in law bouquets that mean specific things in the atevi language of flowers but leave the human florist scratching their head. Placing a vase of sticks in his bedroom. Getting anxious when someone brings family business up at the table. Disassociating during human plays because they just don't... they don't make sense anymore; they're flat and boring and monochrome.

[themisstakenidentity]

Hello, Bren. It looks like you have placed yourself in another impossibly desperate situation.

Would you like to be rescued by:

Ilisidi on a mecheita

Toby on a boat but also Barb

The young Lord of Dur and his Marvelous Yellow Flying Machine

Voting ended onMar 17