Orc Mating

[Urahra 5777]

Hugs, kisses and hand-holding should be big-time taboo. Orcs display their affection to their wives by beating them slightly less. To their brothers and sisters, affection is often displayed by various punches and bludgeonings, usually to the face, or bloody arena battles. It is also considered a term of endearment to comment on how ugly one's face is.

Orc love is truly beautiful.

[Sultan 3953]

Hugs, kisses and hand-holding should be big-time taboo. Orcs display their affection to their wives by beating them slightly less. To their brothers and sisters, affection is often displayed by various punches and bludgeonings, usually to the face, or bloody arena battles. It is also considered a term of endearment to comment on how ugly one's face is.

I doubt it..

this is really to far.. and implies that females are weaker than males and that is not true and that they can not fight back. but that's not the case..

Also some Orcs mate publicly.. so they do show affection. But most do not show any affections in public. but with Lifemates in Private that is a different matter.

[Sirbubbley 26]

i for some reaon read this and now i fel like making my second account an orc a war based sociaty sounds awsome. First account an elf prince second account account a blood thirsty orc.... HELL YEA!!!

[Urahra 5777]

I doubt it..

this is really to far.. and implies that females are weaker than males and that is not true and that they can not fight back. but that's not the case..

Also some Orcs mate publicly.. so they do show affection. But most do not show any affections in public. but with Lifemates in Private that is a different matter.

I think Ned was just joking. Partially. Showing affection by punching sounds pretty orcish to me. Nothing signifies a good mate like a strong right hook.

But kissing is good too.

[Noahjam325 53]

I agree with Ned, but I think that door swings both ways, and in an opposite direction. Males and females will hit each other more and harder the more they love each other.

[Urahra 5777]

To the point where sometimes making love is completely indistinguishable from a no holds barred beatdown.

Ah, romance.

[Sultan 3953]

Trolls

[Urahra 5777]

Hello again, all. I have more ideas! :D

Okay, so, Gragarn and I were talking about life mates. Gragarn thought that it would be very orcish if a new pair of life mates, upon forging their new bond, were to give up all their possessions and start anew. It would be very symbolic - leaving behind relics of their old life as individuals and working together to obtain new possessions to signify their sacred bond.

That also helps establish that taking a life mate is not the same as a human marriage. Humans get gifts and stuff when they get married and make a huge fancy ceremony out of it. Orcs have to give up everything to demonstrate the strength of their bond.

[moondoggy 27]

Yeah most goblins don't last long in orcish lands. one says the wrong thing and an orc smashes them into jelly in one stroke...only a few manage to survive by befriending strong orc and being inventive...speaking of females...aye dis old goblins still got some life left in him i'm puttin out a sign for a new wife! if Everard can do it, Yahgy can do it!

[moondoggy 27]

hows something like this for sign "Attention Females, Yahgy seeks wife! will recive ten diamond blocks and a house of your choice in any city" (of course i'm going to shoot them all down:p i'm 28 you think i'm crazy enough to even entertain the thought of becoming married to some random woman in a video game)

[Thatpyrodude 2008]

Topic moved to Orc RP under topic creators request

[Sultan 3953]

Hello again, all. I have more ideas! :D

Okay, so, Gragarn and I were talking about life mates. Gragarn thought that it would be very orcish if a new pair of life mates, upon forging their new bond, were to give up all their possessions and start anew. It would be very symbolic - leaving behind relics of their old life as individuals and working together to obtain new possessions to signify their sacred bond.

That also helps establish that taking a life mate is not the same as a human marriage. Humans get gifts and stuff when they get married and make a huge fancy ceremony out of it. Orcs have to give up everything to demonstrate the strength of their bond.

This is to mush I think it would only Scare People from taking life mates

Also as males take more than one life mate it wont work..

[Blawharag 277]

Im siding with Mogroka on this one, dropping proffessions makes no sense in a society which favors strength and power. "Im a master blacksmith/shaman/miner/warrior/whatever you may decide you are good at. But Im going to stop repairing diamond armor and take up farming! Because I love you honey and I want to show you how much I love you in an overly dramatic fashion like giving up what im good at! Just like in the chick flicks where the guy is ready to give up his entire career to be with his girl!"

I bolded that last line because i want to emphasize how that seems more like a mushy human thing than a brutal Orc thing. Sure and Orc will protect his/her mate to the death and love Him/her/it for until the end of days, but mushy crap like "ill give up my strength to be with you" is for the birds IMO. Save it for the humans and elves.

[Noahjam325 53]

Actually it wasn't give up your profession. It said possessions. Basically the 2 would give up their stuff and go live in the Wilds for a long time then come back. This would only occur if you took in a life mate. Part of the challenge of having more than 1 mate is you need to "care" for them all. So having more than 1 life mate should be a legitimate challenge, otherwise it's kind of trivialized.

[Blawharag 277]

Ah i see, i misread. In that case it just seems silly to me. It still seems like an extravagant display of love better left to humans and elves. The idea of having more than one mate is that you have to prove yourself strong and worth of having more than one mate the way Mogroka put it. Giving up your stuff and going to the woods honestly

1. Doesn't seem to me to bear much of a factor on how strong you are. Any Orc should be expected to be able to live in the woods on nothing but scratch.

2. The challenge isn't having to "care" for them all especially not if the implication here is you must take care of them in the woods. Feorcs are supposed to be just as capable as Orcs in society and neither of you should need to "care" for one another in any sense other than the emotional one. Which obviously doesn't pose for much of a challenge in proving yourself worthy of more than one mate unless you find yourself having difficulty allotting your time to all of the mates.

3. In all honesty the idea of dropping your possessions to live in the woods makes little sense to me. I understand the symbolism behind it but I fail to understand the origin of concept. Why would this have started lorewise? Why would Orcs care to give up what they fought hard for? Were the first lifemates plagued by a feeling of need to ascend beyond the things of their old life? Did they have some spontaneous thought that their old possessions were symbolic of a life of polygamy and need to get away from these ideas that dog them? Orcs don't strike as the type to care about any of that. To put it in a frame of reference: Mogroka gets a lifemate. Does he now have to give up his Gorefang (I think that was the name of your axe, but im not 100% sure)? What about Gorkila? Does he have to give up the entire town because he technically owns that too. What about his house? Even just his food that he hunted the day before?

It has merits as a concept for its symbolism but i don't it fits the frame of reference for Orcs. Mostly because it either comes across as a mushy eccentric unnecessary display of love or a display of shame for your prior lifestyle. Neither of which Orcs would show.

I don't mean to be cruel or completely degrading of the idea, it just doesn't seem to make much sense in the context of Orcs.