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They are very close-knit people regardless of the flock/tribe that each of them belongs to. It is not unknown for members of a flock/tribe to know by sight every single member of their own flock/tribe even if they number in the hundreds of thousands. This is because as a society they place a high value on love, compassion, forgiveness, and family; including one's chosen family through friendship bonds. They also encourage one's emotions to be expressed without a cultural reprimand, so long as harmful actions taken during moments of high negative emotions are held accountable after the fact, and they can grow and improve after reconciliation. Mindfulness and openness to admitting when you are wrong or at fault for something without excuses is a common practice. And that, alongside the practice of love and honesty, is how they've kept such a strong connection to each other the way they do even during moments of tension that might otherwise escalate in other cultures. | They are very close-knit people regardless of the flock/tribe that each of them belongs to. It is not unknown for members of a flock/tribe to know by sight every single member of their own flock/tribe even if they number in the hundreds of thousands. This is because as a society they place a high value on love, compassion, forgiveness, and family; including one's chosen family through friendship bonds. They also encourage one's emotions to be expressed without a cultural reprimand, so long as harmful actions taken during moments of high negative emotions are held accountable after the fact, and they can grow and improve after reconciliation. Mindfulness and openness to admitting when you are wrong or at fault for something without excuses is a common practice. And that, alongside the practice of love and honesty, is how they've kept such a strong connection to each other the way they do even during moments of tension that might otherwise escalate in other cultures. | ||
A very obvious benefit | A very obvious benefit is the Aurelians have never had issues with LGBTQ+ topics. All relationships regardless of the make of the individuals in them are simply seen as love bonds. As a result, Aurelians don't have to come out as anything unless they want to. It varies from flock to flock, but there aren't necessarily words for these things because of that factor. And the flocks that do have those identifiers use them with complete respect and choice of the ones using them. (Since joining the federation there are a number of Aurelians who feel connections to off-world identifiers.) Similarly, polyamorous relations are fairly common. Transgender or nonbinary identities have always existed on Aurelia, and they've always had loving terms for them, as well as unique Aurelian pronouns for those in the nonbinary categories. But there has also been a huge adoption of the Standard they/them pronouns, and some others as well. You would be hard-pressed to find an Aurelian who has a problem with any of it. | ||
They do tend to easily love others who are not Aurelian in the same or similar ways if the bond is formed as well. In general, it is a deep, unconditional love for the people in question. But it is not a love that is inherently romantic unless it goes that way, it's just love. Like any group of individuals, the determination for what one Aurelian considers the basis for their ''personalized'' love differs between Aurelians and some flock sub-cultures. Some are more reserved and introverted and thus more selective with their intensity, while others only need a few interactions to feel immense love from their end for anyone they might interact with. This connection to love, family, and compassion is what makes it so easy for them to offer their help to others, and very easy to forgive | They do tend to easily love others who are not Aurelian in the same or similar ways if the bond is formed as well. In general, it is a deep, unconditional love for the people in question. But it is not a love that is inherently romantic unless it goes that way, it's just love. Like any group of individuals, the determination for what one Aurelian considers the basis for their ''personalized'' love differs between Aurelians and some flock sub-cultures. Some are more reserved and introverted and thus more selective with their intensity, while others only need a few interactions to feel immense love from their end for anyone they might interact with. This connection to love, family, and compassion is what makes it so easy for them to offer their help to others, and very easy to forgive people. | ||
There are also subsets of Aurelians without wings. No one's sure what caused those flocks to adapt without them, but they're well-loved and fondly considered. They have their own flocks and flocklands and are also known to either join with flighted flocks through familial adoption, or their equivalent of marriage. Flighted Aurelians do also join flightless flocks for the same reasons. The flightless Aurelians are a little rarer, but in recent generations, the intermingling has become more common, and so there has been a bit of an increase in flightless Aurelians, and a unanimously agreed upon amount of accessibility put in place everywhere for flightless Aurelians to still be able to get places that would otherwise be easier to fly to. | |||
'''Aurelians have three points of maturity:''' | '''Aurelians have three points of maturity:''' | ||