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[resnipstance]

Who: Ahsoka + You
Broadcast: Yep!
Action: Not really (though if you want to find her, she'll be in her room on the Starstruck)
When: idk today

Hey! Soooooo since we're all stuck here, and going outside on this planet kinda sucks bigtime right now, I've been making it a project of mine to try and learn as much as I can about the different cultures of the other worlds people here are from! Particularly Earth, because there's so many of you! Someone told me the collective noun is "Earthlings"? Anyway.

I've been trawling through the media library, but to be honest, I'm not very good at sitting and reading for long periods of time. So I figured, why not just ask you guys instead?

Tell me one (or more!) thing about your home world that you think is culturally significant. It can be traditional, religious, social, or pop culture is fair game too! After all, it's no fun when people are making pop culture references that fly over my head.

The only rule is that you can't say the same thing as someone else. You ready? Go!

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[resnipstance]

... Wow.

That's a little intense, isn't it?

[tallasaking]

[One corner of his mouth lifted.] Welcome to the House of Lannister.

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka pauses, then, and looks away.]

... What's going to happen to Sansa? When she goes back.

[tallasaking]

[He looks over at her, his gaze narrowing slightly.]

Sansa ... I have no idea, honestly. I am literally a world away from her. [He sighed, looking up to the ceiling.] Right now she is under the thumb of a very unscrupulous individual.

[resnipstance]

What? What do you mean?

["Unscrupulous individual" could mean so many things.]

[tallasaking]

I mean that she is currently the ward of a man who has convinced her that she should play his bastard, and marry whom he thought she ought to marry. To secure him power, of all things.

[He makes a noise from his throat that is thwarted rage.] If I had my druthers he would be choking on his own blood -- but again, I am no where close to him in our world.

[resnipstance]

What? How can she marry someone else if she's already married to you? Don't you at least have to get a divorce first?

[tallasaking]

Legally, yes. With all due respect to our religion - yes. However we never consummated the marriage, so there can be argument that we are not truly married in that sense.

[resnipstance]

What! That's the dumbest rule I ever heard! Surely if you're married, you're married! I bet loads of people have marriages where they don't have sex!

[tallasaking]

Not where I come from.

[A thoughtful pause.]

Of course, we are not there right now. We are here.

[resnipstance]

[Completely unapologetically:]

Your world is weird.

[tallasaking]

I cannot argue that.

[Amusement, in his mis-matched eyes. Then his gaze narrowed.] How did you know we were married? Sansa swore me to silence.

[resnipstance]

Huh? Oh. Sansa told me.

["Obviously-- who else?" her tone implies.]

[tallasaking]

[Ah ... what?]

She told you we were married. [And now you are going to get his best squint-eyed look.] Why?

[resnipstance]

[Ahsoka blinks.]

She's my friend.

[As if that explains everything. Well, to Ahsoka, it does.]

[tallasaking]

I see.

[He really didn't.]

Did she swear you to secrecy?

[resnipstance]

[.............. Realisation dawns belatedly on Ahsoka's face. Oops.

Yes, yes she did.]

Uhhhhhh...

There. Might have been some of that. Involved.

[AHSOKA PLEASE.]

[tallasaking]

[He sighed softly, as he rubbed one hand over his face. Well, that explained that.]

So you are having a discussion about our forced marriage, with me, without Sansa's permission?

[He gives her one raised eyebrow.]

Have you told anyone else?

[resnipstance]

What? No! Of course not. Who would I even tell? It's not like it's anyone else's business.

[Ahsoka, it isn't even your business.]

[tallasaking]

[He hummed under his breath, rubbing one finger along his chin.]

All right, so. We are the only ... four to five people that know?

[resnipstance]

Right. I guess so!

Anyway, I promise I won't breathe a word of this if you don't. Sacred pact.

[tallasaking]

Yes, I suppose I can keep this secret between the three of us.

[Bitter? Heavens no.]

[resnipstance]

Oh. No, I meant more-- [she gestures vaguely.] This conversation.

[tallasaking]

[One corner of his mouth twists, and he nods.] Yes, I can keep this to myself.

[resnipstance]

[A sigh of relief.]

Phew. Thanks. Seriously. You're saving my bacon here.