there's this cool concept called a sedoretu: basically it's this cool four person marriage from a series of short stories by ursula le guin that i want to use as an excuse to have all my favorite pairings in one story. read on for more info.
Marriage on O is a foursome, the sedoretu — a man and a woman from the Morning moiety and a man and a woman from the Evening moiety. You're expected to have sex with both your spouses of the other moiety, and not to have sex with your spouse of your own moiety. So each sedoretu has two expected heterosexual relationships, two expected homosexual relationships, and two forbidden heterosexual relationships.
The expected relationships within each sedoretu are:
The Morning woman and the Evening man (the "Morning marriage")
The Evening woman and the Morning man (the "Evening marriage")
The Morning woman and the Evening woman (the "Day marriage")
The Morning man and the Evening man (the "Night marriage")
The forbidden relationships are between the Morning woman and the Morning man, and between the Evening woman and the Evening man, and they aren't called anything, except sacrilege.
I have three sedoretus in mind for pjo,
one with annabeth and luke as children of the morning and percy and thalia as children of the evening.
one with silena and chris as children of the morning and clarisse and charles as children of the evening
and one with piper and leo as children of the morning and jason and reyna as children of the evening.
i dunno if i'll do anything about it, but it never hurts to put my ideas down.
Now, don't get me wrong, I love post-apocalyptic literature and things that make you think about the darker parts of life.
The Road, though, didn't get any sort of an emotional response from me.
The world, itself, and the characters all felt empty, apathetic.
They weren't trying to stay alive but trying to to die.
The thing about the will to live, it's something that requires hope. Hope for a future where things will get better. They had no hope, but were only too afraid to die, though they longed for the oblivion that would follow.
It was empty and lifeless, but I guess that's what the book was trying to convey.
I didn't care what happened to the characters or the decimated world because the characters didn't. They were desensitized to it, and they just didn't care about anything at all.
A.N: Sorry this one took so long but I've been pretty busy. I'll also be at a state debate tournament this weekend so expect no new chapters friday-sunday.