Question: Choosing Moeities

[anxious_songbird]

Not much is actually said about moeities in Ursula's works outside of the marriage aspects, despite the text saying it has to do with ancient religious reasons. How do you decide on what moeity a character is in?

Do you just go by gut instinct or go with what aesthetically makes sense? Do you create your own worldbuilding around it or are you lax with it? Are there in your headcanons markers of what moeity someone is in and if so what are they?

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Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Thank you for this wonderful description of possiblities! <<

I'm happy I could help.

>> It is good to remember that moeities would effect all of society, and your advice keeps that in mind ^_^

It's the anthropology -- I like studying how different societies do things. Humans have a ton of different marriage variations, and most of those have to do with handling specific challenges (e.g. a society with a gender imbalance) or quirky cultural beliefs (there's one where they believe the father contributes to a baby all through gestation, so a mother may take an extra husband for extra support). Then too, I like looking at how one change will affect the rest of society, hence why I do more with superpowers than fight club. So with sedoretu in a society, I would expect to see certain things customarily done with your own moiety and other things done with the opposite moeity. Each would have its own traditions. A lot of things would be divided either into sets of two or sets of four, but you wouldn't see three very often. And so on.