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 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:00 pm
Realizing her was being teased, Antony shook off the serious musings once and for all and gave Loveless a grin. "I think that shooting for civility is a good thing, and more importantly, I think we should show some kind of...I don't know, uniformity, you know? I mean, I'm not one to speak about postive role models, but it sucked to always see my parents fighting and snarking each other. It was preferable to be by myself or to be with just one, because if they were together things were only going to get loud and potentially violent."
Yep, that sounded like fun, alright...but somehow, he wasn't that worried about things being awkward between he and Loveless. She might be a kalona, but she wasn't a thing like his mother...thank goodness. For example, he doubted Izusa would have pondered the value of conflict in her life. Or did Loveless mean the children?
Either way, he doubted his mother would have had much to worry about: Conflict is good, children much less so. He himself understood Loveless' ambiguity, and he gave a her a nuzzle to show that understanding. "I'd say it depends on the nature and amount of conflict. Some hardship is necessary in life, I think; otherwise adult life would be a real bummer. Still, there should be a lot of temperance, a lot of happiness in life, especially in childhood."
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:32 am
Loveless smirked for a moment while allowing a thought to drop into her head. "So you and I are not allowed to fight or anything? I have to behave?" the mare chuckled at the thought, before seriously pondering if that could be possible. "Well, I suppose for my children's childhood and happiness, I could happily abide." Oh well, she supposed it couldn't be THAT hard, so she would have to keep a lot of her snappy comments to herself. "Well, that means you have to behave too!"
Loveless wondered if she was overthinking everything again, and she lowered herself to the ground in a headache. Her body fell almost naturally, and her legs gave in so she was plumply on the soft grass. "Ugh, I wish the children thing would just happen, so I wouldn't have to keep thinking about it." Is this what her father went through? Loveless seriously doubted that...
"Just promise me one thing." she then said, while looking up towards Antony. "I don't care what you do in your personal life, since it really is your business." Loveless most certainly didn't want to intrude. "But please don't wander off and hang around other mares while our children can notice. I am not saying you would do such a thing, but I understand that stuff happens.." Well, and that Guilian did that all the time when Antony was growing up. Loveless always wondered if that bothered Antony, or if he seriously didn't care. "I used to get pissed when my father would woo such disgusting females.. it made me so angry and ashamed." His father would leave her mother all the time, and it drove Loveless nuts!
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:46 am
"I never said no fighting, I just said no fighting around the kids or anywhere near the kids' prescence. If we MUST fight, then we should do the sane and honorable thing and dump the kids off with a babysitter and THEN scream at each other." After all, parenthood was about sacricfices, right? And one of those sacrifices might as well be spontanaeity, at least when it came to fighting.
Watching Loveless collapse back to the ground, Antony couldn't help but find himself mulling along that self-same topic. Thinking about things tended to make you more nervous than not, and the longer you mulled the antsier one tended to get...
Though some details were, he supposed, necessary. At Loveless' rather blunt request, Antony all but choked forcing a laugh into a cough as he realized a few words in that she was actually serious. While he could see her point, he was a bit stunned that she actually thought that was something he was even capable of. "Lessy...have YOU ever seen me with any other mare? If I'm not going to parade around in front you, my father, or my friends with random females, I can promise that I'm not going to be bringing them around to show off to the kids. Dad didn't do that himself when I was a kid, after all."
As a matter of fact, Guilian had always been surprisingly discrete about his ladyfriends; while a blind hawk would be able to tell Guilian was a wanderer, the details of those wandererings were as a rule left to Guilian and the mare's involved. Granted, he had started the sex-ed a bit early for Tony and his siblings and probably not in the traditional vein, but Antony could hardly say he'd been scarred for life having his father be a player. If anything, it only made his life harder in how his MOTHER felt about it!
"You don't have to worry about a thing, Lessy...though I just want you to know that that goes for you as well! No finding that dream stud of yours and bringing him around to threaten my ego and confuse the kids, ok?"
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:26 am
Oh whatever. Loveless only brought it up because she was feeling insecure lately, and that was probably due to her raging hormones. "I'm not saying you WOULD, I'm just bringing it up for practical purposes. Nothing wrong with that, right?" Loveless wondered if she offended him, but by his 'dream stub' comment, she knew that everything was fine as it is.
"Do I LOOK like someone who would have a dream stud?" What the hell was a dream stud anyway? Loveless seriously wondered if she had ever had one of those before! "Antony, you are silly. Sometimes I don't even know what you are talking about." And with a smile, Loveless knew it was all better that way anyway! So what if they were sort of weird? It kept the mare completely entertained!
"There is one last thing about fatherhood that I needed to ask you." she then said, with a promiscuous grin. "Are you going to be able to handle the fact that if you have children, and if they get older, that they will have to go through the same 'fun' that we went through?" Loveless knew that sex wasn't weird for Antony... but if Antony had two or three daughters per say, would he be able to handle that? "Its always harder with daughters, you know." Loveless wouldn't really care herself, but she knew from her dad's experience, that watching your child 'blossom' was a hard fact indeed!
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:31 pm
"Nah; might as well figure these things out early!" All things considered, it was better to figure these things out now in relative privacy than try and have hissed reminders when there were foals running around! Besides, Loveless was at least a bit justified in her anxiousities, given his own personal confessions and their respective family histories.
Letting the query of the dream stud pass by with merely a smile, Antony cocked his head to one side at the comment on 'fun'. "What, you mean family issues? They have to deal with that regardless, Lessy, so I don't see how whether or not I myself have issues will matter. And I fail to see how daughters are easier or harder than sons..."
It wasn't that he was even being deliberately obtuse; Loveless' REAL intent had simply gone over his head. After all, sex was a natural part of life to him, so why would he worry? Then again, his own sisters had had similar upbringings to he himself, with gender not mattering a fig in the end.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:34 am
"Well maybe I was difficult myself, so I assume that all daughters will be difficult in the same regard." Loveless' brothers never caused any trouble, so it was the only concern she could really think about in her head. "I'm just pulling what I can from my own experiences, and if you think you will be fine, then I have no doubt that it will be what it will be." Yes.. that was true. If Antony was content, she was as well. And, seeing how comfortable Antony was at their point in the conversation compared to the last time they spoke, Loveless had little doubt in her mind, and she knew that the whole family thing would probably work out better then she could expect.
"Well, I think my worries are cleared out for the moment." she had just rambled quite a lot, afterall! "How are you feeling, studly stud?" Pfft, she seriously couldn't get over that, and she would definitely joke about that for time to come. Stud was such a silly world in itself, and she still couldn't believe Antony pulled that out of seriousness!
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:47 pm
Whoever had first said that pregnancy made mares loopy had not been kidding. Listening to Loveless' firm statement, overflowing with confidence in him and his opinions...he still wasn't really sure what they were talking about, to be totally honest, so he wasnt sure it was a good idea to have Loveless going off of what he thought was right or good. Still, it didn't sound like anything worth worrying about, as long as she was fine with those opinions.
So he simply chuckled, returning Loveless' smile with a grin of his own. "Glad I could be of service, Lessy; and I feel fine, of course; I haven't gained weight, my hormones are stable, I don't look like I swallowed a beach ball...really, I'm not sure how I should be feeling anything but quite dandy." Strong words for a stallion who'd so recently fainted from mere surprise!
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:27 pm
Loveless gave Antony a fake sneer at his comment, and she curled her tail around and leaned up against a flat rock. "Why don't you go keep yourself busy or something, since I should probably take a nap. I don't want to BORE you, especially since I look like a beach ball." Pfft, was she really that unattractive? "I'll be sure to kick your a** when the babies do come out." And with that, she fluttered her eyelids in a very silly manner, before shaking her head in a laugh. "Im kidding I'm kidding. But seriously, I don't want to waste your day Antony."
It was hard for Loveless to explain, but she did feel awful at the fact that she couldn't fly around with him, or even take nice stroll somewhere. She was big, and she could admit that. She missed being able to do anything she wanted, but she knew those days would soon approach again. Plus, there was no reason to drag Antony down with her, so she wanted him to be free since well, he could!
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:45 pm
He'd gone and said something tactless again, hadn't he? Ah well, that was pretty much his forte, and if she hadn't learned THAT fact about him by now, then she was extremely dense. Considering that he knew she wasn't dense in the slightest, though...he had to seriously doubt that she was serious in her desire to hurt him. Hormones must be acting up again.
So he wasn't worried, merely grinning back in the face of a toothy scowl, though that grin softened at her next words. "Hey, let me worry about what is and what isn't wasting my day, ok Lessy? Believe it or not, I'm not as shallow and flighty as I appear."
With that, the stallion bent slightly to give Loveless a nuzzle, lipping at her braid with obvious affection before ambling a little ways away to graze on the dry grass. If she wanted to nap, she could nap; he himself, in the meantime, would at least keep her company. Even if she WAS sleeping.
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