And then she left: Science Fiction

[penthius]

He cheated while she was away on her diplomatic mission to Czartar. She won an award for that one, but it didn't make it worth coming home to find her husband had slept with the tattooed dancer girl at one of his banquets. The girl swore that she wouldn't have gone after him if she'd known he was married, but he'd given the impression he was separated. It didn't matter much, then, to her. She felt overwhelmingly tired. She had tried to keep ties to earth and family strong, she had tried to keep a marriage, even though they only saw each other every six months, and she had tried to stay a nice, good human woman, despite the wonders and temptations the alien worlds had opened up to her. That did it.

Inspiration: Sandra Bullock winning an Oscar and then finding out her husband had cheated on her.
Story Potential: Medium.
Notes: I like this character, and this could go interesting places, but the interesting bits would all happen around this.

Comments

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

What's funny to me is that this sort of mirrors an experience I had with an ex. Sort of. No cheating was occurring.

At some point, it came up that if given the option I would dive deep deep into transhuman alterations. She asked if I would still do so if it meant losing her.

That conversation didn't go that well. I avoided the topic from then on out.

[penthius.livejournal.com]

The seed of it is not uncommon, I think--just pushed to the extreme.

Also, what a wuss. Her, that is.

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

I agree. I think that might be part of what could make it work. A lot of people keep the lid on some urge or temptation (in this case, not just sexual or relationship-y) because of a committed relationship. Like how they always wanted to travel to Morocco but their partner hates airplanes. Or how parents get motorcycles and start having sex in the kitchen when the kids finally leave the house.

In her defense, any conversation where the topic is what you would abandon them for... can be kind of touchy. It's kind of like how sometimes there can be a flash of jealousy when your significant other talks about how hot some celebrity is and/or, even jokingly, they would totally cheat on you with/leave you for them. You know it's not REALLY an issue, but...

Also, I think the idea that I would cut off my arms/hands/eyes/legs/internal organs because I wanted to made her uncomfortable, more in that it IS hard to empathize with and if your partner has something that's really important to them that you can't understand, it can make you feel a bit unhappy about things. And really? I don't actually expect anyone to be totally on-board about trading up body parts or being excited to leave their humanity behind.

[prof-vencire.livejournal.com]

Transhumanism is my one real "what a fucking nerd" interest.