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Ok on a time Da-Rae was afraid of Faust. CW discussion and depiction of attempted suicide

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question for Julian's ghost what are his thoughts and feelings over missing the kick-off of armed struggle?

question for Da-Rae whats a time she was afraid of Faust? alt: are future-twitter users allowed to write self-insert threesome smut about her if we do it on a locked account??

quick q for Lin Wei how and where did he grow up?

These are EXTREMELY GOOD QUESTIONS thank you for sending these! I'm going to make a separate post for the first question 2 because I love it alot and the response I have planned for it is pretty long.

Question 1:

He's not really bothered by the fact that he died like a few weeks before the actual revolutionary war began because in his perspective it's genuinely all the same as if it happened decades or centuries after his death

Question 2 alt:

She does have in mind the specific scenarios of "Counter revolutionary" = her having sex with any empire military officers or David Sokolov of the Faustians and "Defamatory of deceased comrades" = porn featuring Faust where shes doing something illicit or having sex with a man. She is mostly stumped by this one because she sees herself as very boring and kind of ugly subconsciously due to having scars and being older so she doesn't get why anybody would be writing that

Question 3:

I decided he's being kind of standoffish because while this is a normal question and he has rehearsed a way to answer it without giving away his real identity, he doesn't know who you are so he's immediately assuming you're an empire citizen so he's just already pissed off. (Also human-like aliens don't exist in this setting at this time but of course theres like Animals so thats why he's specifying "populated with humans")

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I was going to explain this in the tags of that post but it really quickly turned into a wall of text so like quick explainer on where some of the space communists are at with homophobia

Faust: Was the way she was because she was from a very homophobic world and was never in community with other LGBT people, kind of just formed all her takes with no input from anyone else due to not having anyone else to talk to. Progressive by her worlds standards but definitely stood out when around other gay people who were involved in a LGBT community basically anywhere

Da-Rae: From a rural area on a world where being LGBT wasn't seen as a Bad thing necessarily but not "normal". She really didn't know alot about it beyond that she didn't judge anyone for it and chose to educate herself after realizing she was working with a pretty limited mindset. Is bisexual and is aware of this but doesn't identify as gay herself because in her perspective it "doesn't count" if she hasn't actually ever had a relationship with a woman. Keeps saying she gets it when Lin Wei tries to tell her that's ridiculous and then says she's straight the next time her sexuality comes up anyway

Wei: Gay man from a city with a thriving LGBT culture, most progressive of the communist party leaders on this stuff by far. Feminist, transfeminist, trans ally. Against marriage and the integration of patriarchal familial structures into gay culture. His husband is not as radical as he is on this stuff which is why he calls him his husband when he's around but sticks with "boyfriend" and "life partner" when he's not listening. Often laments falling in love with a guy who considers himself to be nonpolitical, his husband often laments falling in love with a communist guerilla fighter, theres some conflict sometimes,

Julian: Trans man from a world where being trans is heavily medicalized to the point where it's not seen as a part of the gay community at all. Theres kind of alot going on with his personal perspective on himself because of this but basically he's someone who had a really regressive take on being trans and then one day the Cosmoists held a vote on what their official stance on it all was going to be, "Should we see being trans as a way that some people just are or is it a illness that must be diagnosed", he voted illness and then lost and now holds the party line and has since genuinely come around to a more progressive view on things as well. So similarly to Da-Rae he's someone who actively had to educate himself because he wasn't in community naturally but also came in with a Bad Take because he was put through the torture labyrinth himself and hadn't fully grasped the issues with it yet

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Ok this is one I wasn't going to post but unfortunately I find this one funny and keep enough of my communauts doodles to myself as is so uh.

In-universe Da-Rae is someone who makes a conscious effort to be educated and knowledgable about all forms of oppression including homophobia and transphobia. It's commonly believed this is because Faust, her best friend who founded the Communauts with her and tragically died 15 years ago, was a lesbian and so was the one who educated Rae on alot of things.

Rae does not totally agree with this.

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This being their first meeting might be something I change later but heres a quick doodle of a image that I think shows up in history books in my sci fi setting. Photo of Julian, Da-Rae, and Faust in jail. This was 21 years before Present Day (Year 40455).

They were all scooped up in mass arrests of people present at or around (in Rae and Faust's case, they were there on accident) a demonstration started by the Cosmoists and then released because the cops didnt know who Julian was and didnt have the resources to hold Rae and Faust indefinitely (and didnt know who they were either). The three of them fled the planet after this of course, but while they were being held Julian and Rae talked enough for her to get interested in What He Had Going On after spending a pretty long time just directionlessly murdering various people in positions of power in the empire connected to the destruction of her planet, and so decided to join up with the Cosmoists.

Faust was Rae's best friend who basically just went along with whatever she did, including being all in on her murderous revenge spree and fully helping her carry it out, so she just went with her.

Faust and Rae would split the party and found the Communauts 3 years after this, and Faust would let herself be captured by the empire to throw them off Rae's trail another 3 years after that.