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Mar. 30th, 2018 04:11 pmI have about 4 stories in my head right now. However, due to both 1) laws of the world, and 2) people who enjoy enforcing their own cultural rules and on other cultures, I can’t really post them. And I likely never will be able to post them, so why write them?
Reason: Age.
No, this isn’t about actual underage/cub/whathaveyou sexual intercourse. This is about two people, who despite an age difference, are both consenting adults. However, one has an age where the number is below “18″. They are “14 yaiya” (12 decimal, as their number system is octal) in age, in a culture where 13 yaiya is the normal legal age for adulthood.
Many people will see that this person is “14 local years of age” and instantly assume they’re a child. It doesn’t matter if you explain this somewhere, they’ll jump to this conclusion, become enraged, and get the story/book/etc... pulled with threats of going to the FBI, getting you put on the Sex Offenders (Hit) Registry, and so on. Sadly, I’ve seen this happen on more than a couple of occasions. It’s what most people are conditioned into doing.
Now, let me give you some math.
A standard daily cycle (suai, or “night”) on this world is roughly 30 hours Earth time. A standard month cycle (yai, or “lunar month”) is roughly 28 day cycles. A standard year cycle (gayai, or “lunar year”) is roughly 16 month cycles, or 448 day cycles.
30 * 448 = 13440 Earth hours for one local year.
(24 * 365 = 8760 Earth hours for one Earth year.)
12 * 13440 = ~161280 Earth hours since the person was born (or in this case, hatched).
188160 / 24 = 6720 Earth days
6720 / 365 = ~18.410958904 Earth years
Even by Earth standards, the person is an adult, but it’s always that number.
And I can’t just say “18 in human years” or “Earth years”, since there’s no knowledge of that world for these people. And altering the number is… painful at best, because that throws off damn near every bit of a useful timeline.
So… What am I gonna do? I don’t know yet. Maybe write them and distribute on a case-by-case basis. Regardless, cultural norms can really suck creativity out a window.
