I thought boreal elves reproduced like the facehuggers from Aliens. Are you telling me all the time I've spent with her thighs wrapped around my head and her ovipositor down my throat was a waste?
Wait, you have a version of the game that lets you repeatedly blow Ryn, without needing big booba and help from RNGesus? Can you send me a copy please, because I want that option.
What's the character logic for this decision because character wise Etheryn seems down for a vagina (I don't remember if she talks about this, but if she says she doesn't want one it seems contradictory to how she acts).
She never acts in a way that suggests she wants a vagina and she makes it quite clear that she
doesn't want one. This is something Savin has said multiple times, see
here for but one example. It's possible to miss because it's gated behind doing a prerequisite conversation that can be missed but if you ask Ryn about her cage post-Palace of Ice she mentions that she can't get a vagina, even if she wanted one. 'Even if' is the key here because it means she does
not want one.
There's also a real-world reason behind this (as Savin mentions in the linked post) which is that adding a vagina to Ryn would mean rewriting
every single scene where it would be relevant to account for it as well as requiring every future scene to do so, and Ryn is already over-parsered as it is. So in-universe Ryn doesn't want one and out of universe Savin's never going to write her with one. It's a closed book.
I mean the equality in the relationship even fades for a male MC if she demands something of you she'll neverdo herself and then basically threaten to do it with someone else.
1) Savarra doesn't make a big deal about open relationships and nobody is written expecting monogamy, nor is there any way for the game to know that you're headcanoning your Champ in any particular way. Nobody in-universe bats an eye at the idea of the Champ marrying multiple people and sexing up every eligible character. Expecting the NPCs to do something the player isn't doing is pretty silly.
2) At no point is Ryn
demanding anything of the Champ. She's not going to tell the Champ that if they love her they'll grow a vagina or that she loves them less because they need some form of surrogacy. She'll love you just the same whatever plumbing you have, but if you want kids
somebody has to carry them. You're reading far more into this than actually exists.
If neither Etheryn or the male MC have the "plumbing" why not adoption?
Ryn is royalty and royalty in this setting is
literally magical; there's a whole quest which hinges on needing to find someone with genuine royal blood other than Ryn, for Reasons. You don't throw away a royal bloodline because the player- I mean the Champ is insecure about the idea of surrogacy, even though this is a thing that happens all the time in the maximally realistic Real World.
Or magic combining both their DNA in some neutral artificial womb?
I'll take Things That Don't Exist for one thousand hawks, Alex. Some sort of Lumian magic to combine DNA
might be possible, but that baby's got to be in
somebody's belly for eighteen months. That's just... kind of a basic biological fact.
