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1. Spurg (spurganon@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 01:33:48 JST Spurg
   Personally, now that I think about it there's a major plot issue with XBC2. Torna was over 500 years ago, so after a little destruction everyone suddenly forgot that a blade was a viable option? Like... no dude was sitting around and let his urges get the better of him for 500 years?
   
   Or did I miss something in game...?
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   • Kyonko802 (kyonko802@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 01:33:47 JST Kyonko802

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     @SpurgAnon the blades being dehumanized probably just made a lot of people think they wouldn't be able to be wives
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   • Kyonko802 (kyonko802@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 01:56:54 JST Kyonko802

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     @SpurgAnon society is a helluva drug. I'm sure some did but kept the marriage secret
   • Spurg (spurganon@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 01:56:55 JST Spurg

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     • Kyonko802
     @Kyonko802 >has emotions
     >relies on you to live
     >reasonably devoted to you
     >lives with you 24/7
     >can learn things like cooking and house keeping
     
     You wouldn't? Sure they're considered "things" and not people, but you wouldn't?
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   • Spurg (spurganon@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 01:58:22 JST Spurg

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     • Kyonko802
     @Kyonko802
     "I got a new blade Malos,"
     
     "Oh no! What blade did you get Rex!?!"
     
     
     I refuse to believe that for 500 years that wasn't at least one guy who was like... "Nah, I'm gonna put my cock in that."
   • Kyonko802 (kyonko802@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 01:58:22 JST Kyonko802

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     @SpurgAnon I'm sure there was but when the pressure is on to keep such a relationship secret its going to be kept secret
   • Spurg (spurganon@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 02:13:31 JST Spurg

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     • salty_apollyon
     @rlier23 did I miss that? Where?
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   • salty_apollyon (rlier23@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 02:13:32 JST salty_apollyon

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     @SpurgAnon there was an entire black market to sell blades as sex slaves
   • luithe (luithe@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 03:00:24 JST luithe

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     • Kyonko802
     @SpurgAnon @Kyonko802 basically the bioroids
   • Cayhr (cayhr@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 05:09:10 JST Cayhr

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     • salty_apollyon
     @SpurgAnon I don't know what the original script is, but during the events of Indol, Zeke will mention it in a brief conversation. I think it is when you first arrive. The seedier side of human-blade relations is more of a side notion than it is front and center.
     @rlier23
   • Cayhr (cayhr@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 07:50:04 JST Cayhr

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     • salty_apollyon
     @rlier23 The pope guy? You mean the one and only, great almighty, wise tree climber, bluest boy of them all...
     
     PRAETOR AMALTHUS
     @SpurgAnon
   • salty_apollyon (rlier23@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 07:50:05 JST salty_apollyon

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     • Cayhr
     @Cayhr @SpurgAnon yeah i think it's insinuated or mentioned with one of the dialogues zeke has with the pope guy
   • Cayhr (cayhr@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 08:24:06 JST Cayhr

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     • Christi Junior
     • salty_apollyon
     @ChristiJunior Yeah, but I don't recall any more mentioning of it outside of Indol. I guess "side notion" isn't a very fair descriptor because it's part of the main story; just not elaborated upon.
     
     @rlier23 @SpurgAnon
   • Christi Junior (christijunior@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 08:24:07 JST Christi Junior

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     • salty_apollyon
     • Cayhr
     @Cayhr @rlier23 @SpurgAnon It's pretty obvious what going on: "they sell them, line up the cores with pretty pictures of the Blade inside", and specifying that the bandits wanted Pandoria precisely because she was so human-looking.
     
     Sex-slave Blades are canonically a thing in Xenoblade 2, and bandits will literally murder the original Drivers just so they can return them to their cores for easy enslavement - but remember, this game is more childish and lighthearted than 1 because Tora is silly :jahy_derp:
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   • Christi Junior (christijunior@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 11:05:15 JST Christi Junior

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     • Kyonko802
     @SpurgAnon @Kyonko802 My headcanon is that Amalthus cracked down hard on Blade-breeding, in keeping with his views that Blades are nothing but tools and trinkets.
     
     That said, even if Blade-fucking didn't happen only, that doesn't mean it didn't happen at all - Vess and Mabon basically seemed to have a husband-wife relationship in all but name.
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