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Post by PeroxidePirate on Feb 23, 2010 17:00:18 GMT 10
Title: Meet the Parents 3 Rating: PG Length: 106 words Competitor: Buriam Tourakom Round/Fight: 1/E Summary: It's time for Buri to meet Kel's folks. Kel and Ilane, talking about it again.
The other issue – that Buri was a woman – was harder to sidestep.
“I know you opted not to have a noble marriage,” Ilane had said, when Kel told her. “But I always thought you might meet someone, later in life.”
At twenty-five, most of Kel's friends were married and producing heirs. Kel had to smile. “I have.”
“Not someone to marry.”
Kel bit back a sigh. “You said you want me to be happy. Mama, I promise you, there is no one and nothing in the world that can make me happy the way Buri does. Isn't that enough?”
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Post by greenie on Feb 25, 2010 17:33:09 GMT 10
Hee, you'd think Ilane would be sick of grandchildren by now! It's interesting that she doesn't seem to share the same openmindedness towards same sex couples that Kel does...maybe because she was already an adult when she went to the Islands.
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Post by PeroxidePirate on Feb 26, 2010 14:06:17 GMT 10
Yeah, I'm thinking about it again, and I'm not sure this is right for Ilane. In a non-Smackdown context, I probably would have cut this one.
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Post by greenie on Feb 26, 2010 16:25:54 GMT 10
I think it'd be justified for her to have that opinion though, since she must've been at least in her 30s when they went to the Yamani Islands. She'd have spent her whole life before that surrounded by the typical Tortallan attitude towards homosexuality, and six years in the Islands wouldn't really have been enough to change that. Like she might not have said anything against it while she was there, but it would've been in the back of her mind that it was wrong/odd/whatever because that's what she'd grown up hearing. And I'm glad you didn't cut this one! I think it works. Kel, on the other hand, was only four when she went to the Islands, and so she would've soaked in the Yamani values and attitudes as she was growing up.
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