. Asha, Kyra and Merneith (I can't really rank them) are the best characters for me.
I instantly recognized the older sister as some kind of local Tomb Raider, Jolie type, with the body more suited for bed rather than combat or scavenging.
Strangely enough, that post-apocalyptic Egypt has many people of foreign descent.
I find it believable that during the apocalyptic events there were many foreign tourists in Egypt, and then many diasporas formed. But still,
I guess that's how Western men sees Russian women.
Btw I wonder how exactly Igor wanders between former Egypt and Russia? - I find it hard to believe.
I always wanted to nail Galadriel.
To think that someone like him would share his property and his family to anyone - it's nuts. It would shatter his role as a dominant male.
Asha and Kyra are wild fun, but Kyra will as soon randomly cut you as fk you, and Asha seems to have been permanently relegated to the role of very submissive deepthroat cocksleeve.
Kateryna's dialogue comes up in auto-detect translations as Czech: IDK how much Rus overlap there is on that. Maybe Igor only goes to Czech areas.
That's definitely not how Western media usually portays Russian women. Now, we either see some not particularly attractive ladies or some severely attractive almost inhumanly beautiful ladies, at about a 50/50 split and how they're portrayed, but most of them are shown as having VERY strong attitudes. I don't think I've ever seen anyone in the west think Russian women are submissive pushovers, although there are some rare cases where you see an oligarch or mobster type being Ultra Alpha and his woman is responding that's going to be more the exception. I mean, if you go for a Russian mail order bride maybe you would HOPE that she'd be soft, but I've mainly seen Russians being portrayed in western media as having hard personalities.
Shani is clearly a Lara Croft stand-in, yes. And yes, despite the fact that they specifically drew her far more muscular than her sister, mother, aunt, or cousin, the reality is that, regardless of how well she's trained, she's a small cute girl who is going out beyond any protections and is definitely going to be a walking sex assault magnet/ target. I've seen enough hentai to know what inevitably eventually happens if she keeps *soloing* as a stalker. She also has already caught the harem itch: she inexorably wants to get involved more and more in the household sex, and it's also clear the MC is having a hard time maintaining sufficient discipline to not knock her up when he gets the chance, so it's very likely just a matter of time before she (willingly or otherwise) gives daddy a baby and changes her profession to sextoy, like her sister.
Egypt already has a sizeable population of foreign descent right now; Egyptian Arabs were originally foreigners who invaded. The native Coptic people are mixed in to the population in good numbers, but Arabs, originally from slightly farther east, are presently the mainstay. Add 400 years of people getting desperate and, yeah, you'll see all kinds of intermixes away from baseline. IIRC, the worst of the apocalypse hit in Europe and a lot of Europeans fled South. IIRC, ofc.
You definitely did NOT want to nail Galadriel unless you don't realize who and what she was.
She was the third most powerful elf in all history, only behind Elendil and Feanor. Tolkien said (in a straight-up fight without any army involved) she'd mop the floor with Gil Galad.
Despite a lot of misogynists berating the rings of power series for putting her in armor (it looks to have actually been a not great series, but it actually made Galadriel seem too WEAK) the reality is that Galadriel was actually SUPER aggro, and even "butch" in her younger centuries. .Canonically, straight from JRRT's pen, she was known in her youth as "Nerwen" which means "MAN-MAIDEN" (man-like girl). She wore her hair up, like a man, wore action-focused clothing, like a man, did sports (and so got in good physical shape), like a man and, *canonically* strapped on a sword and went to war at least twice, like a man. She fit the role more of Spartan woman and first class warrior, and had a super aggressive attitude even basically telling her ruling ancestors to go f*** themselves because she had things to do. She was, imo, not a particularly nice person in her youth, although she fought mainly on the side of right. She was tall and strong, highly opinionated and aggressive, and both magically and martially potent: a powerful force to be reckoned with. So much so, that when she finally did decide to get married to have a kid, she absolutely wore the pants in the family and ruled Lorien in HER OWN name, not her husband's. Her spouse, Celeborn, was very beta to her, even knowing she'd eventually dump him to go back to the west (he gets cucked by a continent) and he couldn't do s*** about it. She was a MASSIVE alpha bitch. Not sure if that's what you'd be after.
There are quite a few (yes, even male-dominated) cultures where men will share their wives, children, or other harem members. The eskimos even habitually shared wives with their favorite trading partners. That said, I personally wouldn't share my wife, but in some cases like, let's say Igor is essentially providing you Kataryna, and sitting there while Kat goes to town on you, I might toss Ain his way briefly for that BJ as a token gesture. NOT full sex, mind you, but a knob-polishing provided to your best friend after he just outright provided you a young, still-virginal new brood mare. MC might exchange/trade a minor service so he won't feel gypped and you won't seem like a bad host. Basically a business deal and mark of hospitality, and Hospitality was a HUGE factor in almost every ancient culture (which Zeta's retro culture resembles): if you were a bad host, word got around about it and that did NOT work out well for you in the long run.
EDITED a lot because they were errors when originally posting because I have to write this on a phone and all kinds of funky things like accidentally clicking the wrong buttons when the page glitched kept screwing things up.
