A meshiver of relationship in a platonic romance between asexual species

CheertheSecond

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This is too much for me to sum up easily so I will introduce the two characters and then my question.


1st character:

I will call M is a species with asexual reproduction method through individual division in the same way as cell division. The only difference is M is a multicellular creature and not unicellular organism.

This means the entire species are classified as mothers and daughters because female pronounce is used to denote the individuals that will bear the next generation.

It should be noted that M's species can occasionally perform genetic shuffling within their lifecycle to better adapt to environmental change. This genetic shuffling process always happen during division but not exclusively during reproduction.


2nd:
I call Grey is a cyber entity. They do not have the concept of procreation since they do not have genetic makeup (or more precisely defined as inheritance information) and therefore they do not create the next generation based on the characteristic of their individuals.

The individual however can modify the information that is their constituent at will to adapt to the situation. They can create new member of their species through freely selecting and generating whichever constituent information that will define their offspring' characteristics.

So their connection with their offspring is pretty much creator and creations.


Question:

M and Grey entered a romantic relationship and M underwent division.

Now M had become 2 daughter individuals which bears similarities of themselves genetically and inherits the memories of M.


What is the relationship between the 2 daughter M and Grey?

Father and daughters? Husband and Wives?
 

CharlesEBrown

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If they are truly identical copies, then the relationship remains the same, and Grey probably gets very confused for a while. If they're different from each other then the "new" one is a daughter, while the old one is a "partner" (they would not be husband and wife in that scenario unless there was a wedding or commonlaw situation involved).
 

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This is too much for me to sum up easily so I will introduce the two characters and then my question.


1st character:

I will call M is a species with asexual reproduction method through individual division in the same way as cell division. The only difference is M is a multicellular creature and not unicellular organism.

This means the entire species are classified as mothers and daughters because female pronounce is used to denote the individuals that will bear the next generation.

It should be noted that M's species can occasionally perform genetic shuffling within their lifecycle to better adapt to environmental change. This genetic shuffling process always happen during division but not exclusively during reproduction.


2nd:
I call Grey is a cyber entity. They do not have the concept of procreation since they do not have genetic makeup (or more precisely defined as inheritance information) and therefore they do not create the next generation based on the characteristic of their individuals.

The individual however can modify the information that is their constituent at will to adapt to the situation. They can create new member of their species through freely selecting and generating whichever constituent information that will define their offspring' characteristics.

So their connection with their offspring is pretty much creator and creations.


Question:

M and Grey entered a romantic relationship and M underwent division.

Now M had become 2 daughter individuals which bears similarities of themselves genetically and inherits the memories of M.


What is the relationship between the 2 daughter M and Grey?

Father and daughters? Husband and Wives?
Eh, depends on how they define themselves and interact with each other. They could be anything.

I'm more curious on how this would have to be tagged. Romance? GL? Harem? Nonhuman-human relationship? I have a novel that has a cyber entity in a romance too, but I dunno what to do.
 

CheertheSecond

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If they are truly identical copies, then the relationship remains the same, and Grey probably gets very confused for a while. If they're different from each other then the "new" one is a daughter, while the old one is a "partner" (they would not be husband and wife in that scenario unless there was a wedding or commonlaw situation involved).


How do you even use to identify if they are identical or not?
 

CheertheSecond

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Eh, depends on how they define themselves and interact with each other. They could be anything.

I'm more curious on how this would have to be tagged. Romance? GL? Harem? Nonhuman-human relationship? I have a novel that has a cyber entity in a romance too, but I dunno what to do.

I guess the tag would be romance and then non-sexual relationship? Non-human relationship. Non-binary relationship.

Probably not including any tag that can not be proven like gl or bl unless you can prove that they are both girls or boys.
 

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I guess the tag would be romance and then non-sexual relationship? Non-human relationship. Non-binary relationship.

Probably not including any tag that can not be proven like gl or bl unless you can prove that they are both girls or boys.
People seem to assume that romance means het. And GL and BL have strict parameters. It's a real pain.
 
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