In developing my interspecies compendium I have made certain observations about humans. Notably in the romantic department. Humans, by default, seem to only experience what we trolls would know as the 'red' quadrants, those which lead one to matespritship and moiraillegance, though the latter seems to be to a lesser, less directly labeled extent. The 'black' quadrants are something inherently¹ foreign to them that have only recently (comparitively, since time is, as I have been told many times, a flat circle - side note, I do not understand that saying. Every circle is flat. If it was not flat it would be a sphere or something between the two.) They are capable of one concupiscent relationship and one conciliatory relationship², whereas the concepts of kismesitude and auspiticism are foreign to them. This led me to wonder if humans did not engage in these relationships purely because they were not capable of them at all, or if they simply did not know they could. On this site I see many humans with kismeses and some with an auspitice to mediate between themselves and their pitch parallels, and I have spoken to a number of them about their experiences with navigating this form of romance which is new to their species but so common to trolls - especially in cross-species relationships. This particular section is a work in progress. I only have 79 pages of it written so far, and I plan on interviewing many more trolls and humans alike to see what else I can figure out. ¹ As in it seems they are not introduced to the concepts from birth. ² For any humans unaware, concupiscent refers to 'romantic' quadrants: pitch and red. Conciliatory refers to 'platonic' quadrants: ashen and pale.
Hello, human-ish enough to apply here. Yeah, you're right on a lot of accounts here, we traditionally do not have more than what you'd call a red quadrant, and concepts that pale and ashen fall under are more nebulous. I wouldn't say we're exclusively capable of only one romance at a time either, polyamory exists in both troll and human cultures, speaking as someone in a poly red situation with a troll and a poly more human relationship (with someone who is neither human nor troll but that's a whole other matter). While we don't formally recognize full quadrants, I personally have been in a pitch situation with someone and had a mediator, both of which were human. I'm very good at accidentally inciting pitch feelings towards me in other humans, due to being, as they'd say, too reckless and harmful to others. I don't start pitch I just end up in them.
THE CONCEPT OF PITCH ATTRACTION. IS IN FACT FULLY NATIVE TO HUMAN SOCIOLOGY. AND IS A CORNERSTONE OF EARTH LITERATURE. THE TOUHOU SHIP KAGUYA/MOKOU. IS WHAT SOME MIGHT REFER TO AS THE ARCHETYPAL EXAMPLE. OF A CALIGINOUS SHIP. AND HUMANS WROTE THAT ON THEIR OWN. WITHOUT ANY INTERFERENCE. DIFFERENCES IN HOW IT IS EXPERIENCED BY HUMANS. ARE LARGELY DUE TO EARTH SOCIETY NOT POSSESSING THE SAME NORMATIVE MANDATE. TO ENGAGE IN NON-FLUSHED PAIRINGS. THAT YOURS DID.