Video; UN: oona

[mermaiding]

[Well all of that doll nonsense was, you know. Fun.

(It was not)

But it's over now, so moving on! Out of sight, out of mind!

Oona appears on the network, around 10 books scattered around her. From the looks of the covers, they're all very trashy ridiculous romance novels. Oona sits on the floor in the middle of them, one in her hand and opened somewhere in the middle, but her expression is a bit disappointed and exasperated]

Human books are so strange! Like stories and such-- really like romance. There is so many! But so weird. Want to read romance, but keep talking about gardens!

[Wait what.

She looks disappointedly at the book again and sighs deeply.] Where did she get flowers from, so sudden? Why is he stroking 'quivering flower petals'? [UH] Or rubbing buds? [oona wait--]

And! Man keeps suddenly having hard swords? They stab, but girls like? So weird! Is all such nonsense! [ooNA NO.

She tosses the book none-too-gently over her shoulder and rests her elbow on her knee, chin in hand, pouting.]

Tell me better stories.

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1/2 video; un: xunxian

[topoiran]

[ Give him a moment as he doesn't consider that he doesn't have to hit reply just yet, and so she can watch him register what she is asking about. ]

[Video]

[beitangmoran]

[Stars above, who gave Oona these books.... well, they are popular for a reason, but... who let her read those without explaining anything, she's not even human! Her culture is all different!]

I believe those are... ahem, metaphors.

voice; un: chuwanning

[wooden_one]

Perhaps the author enjoys gardening.

[LOOK HE'S NEVER READ A DIRTY BOOK IN HIS LIFE. He would probably be able to guess if he read the actual book, but just from her descriptions? He's got no clue.]

And what good would a sword be if it were soft?

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[originalshen]

................Oona. Those aren't the kind of stories you should be mentioning aloud in public.

[please]

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[breakthehabit]

[ It takes him a few moments to piece together what she's talking about with the books and the gardens. Oh. Sweet Maker.

What is she reading, Varric's novels??? ]

The author appears to have gone a more, ah, metaphorical route when describing certain parts of the body.

text; un: weiwuxian

[resurging]

ah, romance novels! most of the time, when you read them, they write a woman's maidenhood as like a flower, and a man's... well, manhood like a sword. this way people can read the stories in public and not be indecent!

i wouldn't be surprised if someone was really into rubbing flowers together, though.

[ a helpful boy. ]

Text; un: 16

[shiliu]

Romantic stories? Why the sudden interest?

Is there someone you like?

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[despairing_hope]

Euphemisms like that are just trash. Any good literature, even of the erotic verity will use better words. But then, I suppose they try and keep a distinction between "Romance" and "Erotic".

I suggest you find better books.

[audio | @hot.damn]

[circumitus]

[Others seem to dance around the subject, but Rey's going to take a more forward approach because fuck it:]

Most writers avoid crude and repetitive descriptions for fucking. Guess using flowers just sounds prettier, but can't say. Never liked romances.

[Video] un: roseoftheriverbank

[saigawa]

[There's a Lot he could comment on this. Like where to even begin? But the young man on the screen looks pretty amused, as he rest his head on his palm.]

Well... yeah, humans can be pretty strange. So it's not weird for them to write just as strange stories.

text | un: sOfTaNdWet

[nipzips]

oona ....bro

i think that's porn

[ no use beating around the bush about it. she has to learn about how pervy humanity is at some point. ]