Stop Hitting Me With the Slipper

Universe.

Anyway, my father didn't apparently bring anything back from Africa, but I have a headache and feel kinda nauseous . . . then again, it might just be Daylight Savings Tiiiiiiiiiiiime! [hates]

However, "urgh" is a good way to describe my today. And my brain wants to make the M!Heres Tanarill derivation the canon one, just so that it can watch Dan freak when she turns herself female again. Is this a good idea Y/N?

capslock_dp. 'Nuff said.

. . .

So, there’s this thing. That I realized. LAst night, when I was semi-concious and mostly deeeeeeeeead. Which is: at some point, Dan is going to try and insult Heres Tanarill by calling her a bastard. And when that happens, she’s going to turn to him and say, “Yes, and?”

And this is because Heres Tanarill is a bastard, in the sense that her parents weren’t married. Nor were her grandparents. Or great-grandparents. There is one distant aunt who was married for a happy three months followed by an unhappy six, but overall no one on either side of Heres Tanarill’s family has been married for hundreds of years.

It might help to explain some things about Hunters here. They don’t get married, as rule. There are too few of them to get married. Instead, they have babies on the basis of who is genetically far enough away from the mother that the child is at the least possible danger of problems caused by excessive inbreeding. Least possible does not mean no risk, and Heres Tanarill’s older sister (who does exist) has Down’s Syndrome (which is why she's not important the the overall story). It’s a mass breeding program, and the father has no responsibility to the child once he’s donated genetic material. Heres Tanarill doesn’t even consider her father as related to her, since he’s from House Mesod, not House Tanarill.

Hunter Houses, as you may have guessed by now, are matriarchal.

Very rarely, a Hunter will fall in love, and this is perfectly acceptable and they are allowed to remain with their chosen mate. But. They are all still under obligation to produce Hunter children. This causes a lot of tension, one of the reasons Hunters can rarely maintain happy relationships. Jan and Sol are the exception, not the rule, and they’re a special case anyway since Jan wasn’t raised in a Hunter House.

All of which has nothing to do with Dan’s reaction when Heres Tanarill tries to explain this, because he’s going to fall over laughing once he gets that Heres Tanarill’s entire family are bastards.

And apparently, the CW that lives in my head does not like ballroom dancing.