quad talk.!

[lex_trolls]

if you wanna dump some stuff about your quads. here's the place. now's the time.

just wanna talk romance?. vent about your awful <>?. brag about your <3
want advice?. sure!. got my very own panel of. experts. right here.

and if we can't help you. no one can.

but at least everybody else. can get some schadenfreude out of it.

Comments

[forgottensebayt]

1. [BLAND] if you wish to guarantee the safety of another individual in a platonic manner, without the urge to necessarily take care of their feelings - outside of ensuring that they do not self-destruct - is that ashen?

2. [CURIOUS] also, what is the ideal manner in which an ashen romance should function? and must it involve three trolls, or can you have one? and can you have multiple auspistices? for trolls who engage in a particularly harmful manner towards those around them, is it beneficial for them to have multiple clubs, with separate leafs in each instance, or a single auspistice who functions regularly? and

3. [?] oh. i suppose you can't answer all of those in one go, can you.

reply: painstakingPerception

[lex_trolls]

just. watch. me.

1. welcome to the wonderful world. of the troll disease. known as friendship.

yes. there are don't-want-them-dead feelings. that don't fit into quadrants. i know it can be a shock. take your time adjusting.

2. rule one of ashen romance. is nobody understands ashen romance.

one troll can need. mediation. in more than one relationship. other clubs are monogamous. some come and go. some last a lifetime. there is no easy answer in ash.

without more details. that's as much as i can tell you.

[forgottensebayt]

1. [MILD] yes, i am aware. haha. your administration of sarcasm in this context is both humorous and illuminating as to the fact my question was perhaps not sufficiently clear as i would have hoped.

2. [MILD, ADMINISTERING A CORRECTION] aren't feelings of friendship, once they reach a certain strength and dedication, meant to convalesce into romantic feelings of some stripe?

3. [DISAPPOINTED] oh? i was hoping the explanation would be less.. difficult.

4. [CURIOUS] i am afraid i cannot give more details, as ashen romance is not a situation that is actually pertinent to my life - i have no mediator nor desire to currently exist as one. i was merely curious in regards to the vastly differing views lobbied by numerous magazines in the lobby of my hivestem's parlor. but thank you for answering all the same.

reply: ramshackleConfinement (headcanons ahoy!)

[lex_trolls]

A REAL answer to you initial question would be: the key element of the ashen quadrant is mediation.

TRADITIONALLY, a club is made up of three trolls, one of which mediates between the other two. BUT we live in a wondrous and modern society! THERE are no true regulatory limits on the ashen quadrant anymore, and it is likely the most flexible of the four romances.

A TROLL may wish, for example to mediate another troll's internal interactions with themselves, forming a two-leafed club. OR they may wish to mediate between that troll and the world at large, forming the same.

CLUBS with four or five leaves are rarer and generally less stable, but they are not entirely unheard of. IF there is one or more trolls consistently mediating and one or more trolls being consistently mediated, the relationship may be considered ashen.

AS with any quadrant, however, all those involved must agree that the relationship is a quadranted one for it for it to be so.