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Yay, an update!
Hopefully 13.3 at the end of the month :D


I remember being surprised after posting 13.1 (so, forever ago!) when a few people asked about Mira's romantic orientation.

I expected those questions here instead XD


For those who don't want even the smallest of spoilers (because it will be answered eventually in the comic), please stop reading :)




Short response: Mira hasn't yet realised that she's arospec in some way.

Longer response (slightly more spoilery):

Mira will, at some point in the story, figure out that she's demiromantic or greyromantic or arospec. I suspect she's demiromantic but it's possible she'll settle on a different label, I'm not going to box her in.

At this point in the story she hasn't had much cause to think about her orientation/sexuality. In her mind, she's the default* - the way she sees it, she's just not easily influenced, and is perhaps a bit too stubborn, and has had a string of bad relationships.

*Which is is pan/bi in this setting - in our world I think she'd identify as bi, since it's the more common label.

Comments

Krankar Volund

Second message, because I've finished to read, and it's cool that the default is to be pan :D Now I wonder, was it the same in Always Human and Aerial Magic? I guess it was in Always Human, given the total absence of any cishet traditional relationship ^^

walkingnorth

Thank you for the welcome back, I'm so sorry the pause was weird for you (to my knowledge, the patreon page is still meant to be fully accessible to patrons when on pause, and other people did have access to my occasional update, so I'm not sure why patreon kicked you out. Weird!) Yep, all my stories so far have been writing with bi/pan as the default sexuality (with heterosexuality and homosexuality existing but being less common) because why not? That said, a big difference between the setting in AH, and the settings in AM/7DS, is that in AH biology/parts doesn't really matter when having children. Most people use artificial wombs for babies, and if you really want to do it the old fashioned way you can use mods to get the right parts. But in both AM/7DS there are more limited options for having children (similar to our world*) and some people will prioritise being able to get pregnant when picking a life partner. Other people will be happy to have kids in other ways, or do not want kids at all. *It's not exactly the same as our world though, especially not for 7DS, where there are different species with their own unique biologies that don't necessarily line up with humans when it comes to how reproduction works.

Escritorian

I kind of wonder how much is her still discovering herself and how much is her deflecting from a more personal answer. Also, cheering for bi/pan default!