[He's silent for a long moment as he mulls that over. Finally, he says, very quietly:]
I'd gotten the impression humans simply didn't do that. At least not in proper--
[No. Old habits die hard. Old ways of thinking die even harder when they've been ingrained for so long.]
In relationships with women.
[It's not as if he's spent a lot of time observing the social niceties of mortals. He never had a reason to care until now. It's always been this vague impression of a man with one wife (or two, but they seem to not do that so much any more) and if you want to get him in trouble, get him in bed with another man or an animal and there you go. All he's really had to go on for mortals of this time has been observation, in which Jack and Eugene are the only non-monogamous couple and he'd just put that down under the mental heading of 'things perverts men who sleep with men can do but obliviously even then it's unusual.'
Even everything he's read has really just been about monogamy, with anyone having an outside relationship portrayed as misguided or downright villainous.]
It's different, where I'm from. [He shrugs. Rogue had made her distaste for the way things are done in Asgard clear, and really, if they were wrong about so many other things, it had seemed a proper assumption that they'd been wrong about that, too. That he should try to forge his own way and do better there, as well.]
Re: [Action, June 24]
I'd gotten the impression humans simply didn't do that. At least not in proper--
[No. Old habits die hard. Old ways of thinking die even harder when they've been ingrained for so long.]
In relationships with women.
[It's not as if he's spent a lot of time observing the social niceties of mortals. He never had a reason to care until now. It's always been this vague impression of a man with one wife (or two, but they seem to not do that so much any more) and if you want to get him in trouble, get him in bed with another man or an animal and there you go. All he's really had to go on for mortals of this time has been observation, in which Jack and Eugene are the only non-monogamous couple and he'd just put that down under the mental heading of 'things
pervertsmen who sleep with men can do but obliviously even then it's unusual.'Even everything he's read has really just been about monogamy, with anyone having an outside relationship portrayed as misguided or downright villainous.]
It's different, where I'm from. [He shrugs. Rogue had made her distaste for the way things are done in Asgard clear, and really, if they were wrong about so many other things, it had seemed a proper assumption that they'd been wrong about that, too. That he should try to forge his own way and do better there, as well.]
I thought I could do it. For her.