Such a pleasure to read a thoughtful and comprehensive reply.
That's why I like Kyra. And Asha might be my favorite as she choosed to be a cocksleave. She's not some lying bitch with puppy eyes who wanted to fill in any household just to get a better life. Sisters are self-sufficient and dangerous to everyone except that one man they recognized as a man.
I had doubts about their origins until the Russian folk music dropped. I almost shed a tear. I ensure you these are Russians.
Yeah, that might be the cause.
I'm aware of her history more or less, however who I mean is Cate Blanchett's Galadriel. She is so hot in both trilogies, and she possess the same qualities I admire: lean figure, intelligence, wisdom, somewhat arrogant demeanor, and her great translucent dresses. I think for someone who lived that long, Yuna has an inconsistent character. She seems withdrawn and shy. Instead of hiding with the white-haired anime girlfriend doing god knows what for decades, she could've ran her own warband of outcasts. Her experience is incomparable (or should be) to those who live, who lived and who will be.
Well, convinsing. If one lives in a society, he should get along with it's ways. So both ways are appropriate in a case with a close friend.
Thank you for your kind response.
I get where you're coming from with Kyra and Asha. The total submission of those wildcats is proof that you have them (completely and forever) specifically BECAUSE they recognize you earned them by having actual balls.
I just wish the MC would occasionally turn Asha around and take her other end, to pop a kid in there. I mean there's definitely something to be said for constantly wrecking Asha's throat with your battering ram, and ruining her face with your pregnancy paint, but come on, man...
I will absolutely obviously defer to your native expertise in the matter of Kat's Russian origin. (bows).
I happen to like Kat because she's just really really feminine out of the gate (tho I want a girl with fire enough to push back if I am stupid, so she is a partner and not just a servant, I am very wired to like girls who just naturally know their role, and respect mine), she utterly respects you right out of the gate, is really interested in you out of the gate, and really just wants to have a kid (especially yours) right out of the gate. They're all wins for me, in terms of her being a good mate. Definitely would make me want to take her in and protect her.
Also (IMO and YMMV) being dominant with a woman so that she submits is more about "encouraging" her to innately recognize her own willingness and desire to stay with you (so she'll be less likely to question and stray, without you constantly having to check up on her), than about any need to prove anything to myself: other people will always be other people, so you have to manage them in real time, but if you're comfortable with yourself and you know you kick ass, all is good on your end. IE, I don't need to prove anything, as I KNOW the MC is a badass.
Again, that is all IMO, so subjective.
EDIT: also, being dominant with a woman so she submits involves pushing her past her conscious boundaries, so she discovers things about herself which she might appreciate, and this might make her stay with you because she recognizes there's more positive growth with you than elsewhere.
I was never really sold on Cate Blanchett's Galadriel. I mean, she's okay, they did a lot with the effects to make her seem powerful, and Peter Jackson did decent casting, but if you wanted someone more like Galadriel, physically and in terms of powerful presence, I would say a blonde dyed/wigged Catherine Zeta-Jones (back from when she was in her prime) would be far closer. I'm definitely not a fan of the Rings of Power actress choice, although she seems a good actress. FFS, she should be TOWERING over other women, and even many men. 6',4" is the height they have listed for her in the wiki. IIRC, that's taller than "get to da choppa" AHHHH-nold Schwarzenegger.
I don't think Yuna is actually all that old. The initial descriptions made her seem a couple of hundred years old, but the MC seems to think she's only about a hundred or so.
Hospitality was a HUGE deal in ancient societies, and most especially in ones where the environment was very dangerous (like the world we see here), so not hosting someone could lead to their death, and abusing your position as host was basically abusing people who had no choice but to be there, which was like highway robbery.
The Celts definitely rammed this home with their rules about hosting a Bard/Fili: if you didn't treat him right, you might end up losing your kingship.
The Celts also had a tradition of families trying to one up each other on giving gifts: the family who couldn't outdo the the latest gift from the other family would end up owing them a favor.
