Aarne "The Eagle" Järvinen (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
suomi_thunder) wrote2021-04-30 07:39 pm
suomi_thunder) wrote2021-04-30 07:39 pm
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Glada Vappen!
Aarne hadn't celebrated holidays properly in over a year which left him feeling disconnected. Giant bonfires in the streets and rampant reindeer were frowned upon in most civilized cities, unless of course the punks were involved, then that was arson not celebrations.. ok, well for the punks it was a celebration but not for a Saami.
In the Nexus though, oh here he could do whatever he wanted, or that was what he had learned in his few visits. He had been planning and cooking and collecting. The gods probably don't even know where he stirred up reindeer from in the Nexus but he has and Mouka was happy to have a job keeping them corralled. His usual rock gear is augmented with his family necklace and oddly doesn't look too out of place with rest of his wildness.
He didn't have a lot but parties always started this way. The host had some things and then people came and brought more booze and food, ordering all kinds of things. Aarne did bring Mead, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, and a a bunch of lemon tippaleipä batter. He had cooked some but this was something he could show visitors how to make on their own. The honey mead based sugar in a large bowl. Strips of dried reindeer meat and juustoleipä, a Finnish reindeer milk cheese, are out on the table too. There are fruits; strawberries, apples, and nuts which were common as well as a cream from reindeer milk traditional to the culture and nearly like unfermented yogurt.
That all done he looked to the huge pile of logs that he had gotten from various people around the Nexus. The Sami added leaves to it to create smoke at first to attract others. Before lighting it he put up a banner of hide dedicated to the Akka, the female fertility spirits, decorated with the same imagery as his traditional drum. It was sentimental, the first drum he ever learned to play.
Drum in hand he poured kerosene on the log pile and lit it. The reindeer spooked at the sudden fire but soon calmed, especially when the tall Fin went among them.
In the Nexus though, oh here he could do whatever he wanted, or that was what he had learned in his few visits. He had been planning and cooking and collecting. The gods probably don't even know where he stirred up reindeer from in the Nexus but he has and Mouka was happy to have a job keeping them corralled. His usual rock gear is augmented with his family necklace and oddly doesn't look too out of place with rest of his wildness.
He didn't have a lot but parties always started this way. The host had some things and then people came and brought more booze and food, ordering all kinds of things. Aarne did bring Mead, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, and a a bunch of lemon tippaleipä batter. He had cooked some but this was something he could show visitors how to make on their own. The honey mead based sugar in a large bowl. Strips of dried reindeer meat and juustoleipä, a Finnish reindeer milk cheese, are out on the table too. There are fruits; strawberries, apples, and nuts which were common as well as a cream from reindeer milk traditional to the culture and nearly like unfermented yogurt.
That all done he looked to the huge pile of logs that he had gotten from various people around the Nexus. The Sami added leaves to it to create smoke at first to attract others. Before lighting it he put up a banner of hide dedicated to the Akka, the female fertility spirits, decorated with the same imagery as his traditional drum. It was sentimental, the first drum he ever learned to play.
Drum in hand he poured kerosene on the log pile and lit it. The reindeer spooked at the sudden fire but soon calmed, especially when the tall Fin went among them.
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"I'm not offended but it feels strange." Though, Soundwave gets a big laugh out of Aarne and a friendly pat on the arm or leg, what ever is convenient at the moment. "The rest of us are going to get less precise with speech too. You'll fit right in with us when we're drunk."
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Howlback claps him on the back. "There's plenty of woods around here, if the two of you disappear for a bit, we can keep track of Viridian."
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He's serious too. Sex isn't hidden among the bandmates. There's no reason to deny the others. "Rik and I could sit and give her some music lessons while you're enjoying the party."
That went for Howlback too. The human could take care of a kid, even a giant metal cat one for company.
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He nods to them and Howlback cracks up once he's out of close earshot.
"It's true," she says, "we used to have orgies. I'm glad it's a bit more discreet than that here, because we did bring Viridian. But Decepticons will, for the most part, attend sex parties gladly, as long as the rules of the party allow for sticking with one's preferred partners."
She shrugs. "I don't have a partner here. But if someone else here is curious about Cybertronians...we're at a group event, and even if I don't know someone, everyone here will be known to someone else here, so it's not the same level of risk as picking up strangers. We'll see."
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"Surprisingly, we don't have orgies." Aarne shrugged and then giggled. "Public sex or sex in front of others, all the time, but it never becomes a communal orgy. A couple of the band members are too possessive for a wild sex party."
He could understand the sentiment. "I'm not sur who will show up but I hope you have fun tonight, sexual or whatever you get into."
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He thinks for a moment. "Does orgy really mean everyone with everyone all the time? Who would do that? Sometimes we'd all link up at the wrist port and share a thought or an experience, and I think that's quasi-sexual, but nothing below the midline or involving the spark was ever expected or even suggested to everyone."
"Soundwave and I have never spark-merged with anyone else," Ravage says, her ears pricked with alarm.
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He's trying to wrap his head around the different definitions or at least ways of thinking about the terms. "A committed couple sharing someone else is more polyamory or something. I don't think most humans consider a couple with a third in the bed an orgy."
"Hmm.. uh..." Aarne is trying to reconcile everything Soundwave has just mentioned and eventually sighs. "I don't think it is just a pile of people but it could be. I think it is more the idea that orgies in a human mindset would include some sort of partner swapping on some level or someone else with your partner. I'm not sure we'd consider an orgy spirit sharing, but I suppose maybe some people do."
Aarne starts laughing quietly. "There are some in the bands that would haul off and slug someone for sexually touching their partner, not even any actual sex. Hell, I think at least two of them get pissed for someone staring too long."
"I'm not sure humans think of sex as merging spirits in general." Aarne isn't sure but he'd rarely heard of that from other humans. "People who do try to mix spiritual and sexual are sometimes thought of as weird or creepy by other humans. My people believe in it but I just haven't yet."
Or at least Aarne thought there were enough similarities with what it sounded like Soundwave and Ravage were talking about and his own spirituality to make sense of it.
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"Spark-merging is inherently spiritual." Ravage leans into her mate. "Our sparks hold the fiery life-force that animates our metal bodies. Of course there are many other ways to be sexual, everything from purely electronic interfacing to interfacing using an array specifically configured for sexual union..."
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He can definitely understand where Soundwave is coming for as he talks about spirituality and intimacy. "I'm spiritual, maybe even religious, but I've never wanted to mix that with my sexuality. Sex and intimacy hasn't always been a good experience for me. That started to change when I joined the Hammers."
Aarne smiles at Ravage. "You'll need to explain your spark much less to my people. We believe living and many inorganic or non-living things have their own spirit inside. You fit right in the world view I was raised with." It felt important to say before going on. "There are as many ways to have sex as there are combinations of people. I've considered being configured, surgically, to be female but I don't think it's right for me, especially now."
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"Is it possible that Joe is more hurt by the way in which you stray from the bond, than the actual fact that you've done so? Ravage and I got together when we were young, and she'd been very badly hurt before, and I didn't expect her to want to be with anyone else. We've worked it all out, and we're fine now--we have set the boundaries we needed to, and they're working. The first time that happened, it was with someone we were both very strongly attracted to, so we both just went with it. But we should have spent more time talking about it, both with him and just with each other. It also used to bother me when she developed a taste for the casual, but we worked that out, too. Joe can talk to me, if he'd like."
Ravage catches his meaning. "I was hurt sexually too," she says, very quietly. "Before I met him. I'm sorry that happened to you, but it's wonderful, isn't it, finding that something that hurt you so much in the past can bring so much joy?"
She sighs. "It's an integral part of Decepticon philosophy that who you are should not be decided by the shape of your physical body, and that no-one should have to change their physical body to change their status unless they want to. I think I have writings you might want to read on this topic, though alt-mode and gender are different."
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Aarne shrugs at Ravage's comment, though he is glad for the encouragement. "It's scary. I've never been this happy before and it is so terrifying I feel like hiding sometimes."
Falling in love for the first time this late in life had brought up a lot of confused feelings. Maybe he had loved in the past but it was never long or it didn't stay positive long enough to remember. Several months in a relationship Aarne was starting to panic over it inside.
"Human culture is less uniform." And that was the problematic part. "I could be in one country and accepted and the next tour date I'm in a place where walking outside as myself might get me arrested or killed. I've been places where who I am is a crime or reason to be evaluated for a psyche ward. I worry about Joe sometimes. He's not used to how dangerous it can be for me, and now him too."
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Soundwave ex-vents. "We are very lucky that we found each other early in life, although I wish I had found her in time to protect her more. We had to fight to stay together. Our relationship was also legally forbidden in our culture at that time, because of the differences between us, rather than the similarities. Those people whose forms are more animalistic were often regarded as animals by members of my caste, and only my brother could accept that she was my spark-mate. Has Joe not been in a relationship that is forbidden by local custom or law before? It must be different for him than it is for you and I. I have never been in love with anyone who was considered an acceptable mate for me under the old regime."
Ravage leans against him. "Human cultures being different...perhaps you should stay in places where you are safe? Soundwave's brother offered to send us out to the colonies for our own safety. If there had been no revolution brewing, no Megatron to lead us in revolt...we would likely have taken him up on that eventually."