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Tw: Consent and SA

Recently, in the comments of another post, there was some discussion about how Yaphit was a rapist because he slept with Dr. Finn. The situation was compared to Bear & Nikki from Obsession.

(sidenote, even if Bear didn’t know exactly what he was doing, he still knew enough to know that Nikki did not consent to any of it. He was a rapist. He is the bad guy. Full stop.)

My opinion on if Yaphit committed sexual assault depends entirely on how commonly know Dr.Finn’s condition is in the world of the Orville. We can’t know for sure about Union society in general or Yaphit’s home planet, but based on the information we get in this episode it’s not common knowledge. If he could not be reasonably expected to know that Dr.Finn was not in her right mind, he is not at fault.

Obviously if anyone has sex with someone that cannot consent, that is rape. Being under the influence of drugs or alcohol means you cannot give informed consent. In the real world, it’s somewhat obvious if someone is drunk or high. If you don’t see someone drinking alcohol or taking drugs, you can usually tell based on the way they act that they are under the influence. People under the influence of the Retepsian pheromones definitely seem more happy, more in love, horny, etc. but they still behave mostly like themselves. Multiple people on the Orville are under this condition during the episode & no one figures out what’s going on until Darulio explains it to Alara. People question why Ed is shirking his duties but they are no more concerned than they would be if he was head over heels for anyone else. None of the people affected by the pheromones, even realize it. Given the way that people react when they find out about Retepsian pheromones, their effect is not common knowledge. It was brand new information to people that deal with alien cultures on a daily basis.

It could have been a different story if Bortus or Isaac had said “Captain, You look like you met a Retepsian in heat” but based on what we see in the episode, this is a relatively obscure species whose mating rituals are not commonly known amongst union personnel.

Darulio on the other hand is definitely a rapist even if the concept of consent is probably nonexistent on a planet where everyone oozes love pheromones. IIRC, he even says that in his culture, it’s very rude to turn down sex, meaning that it’s probably not uncommon for Retepsians to have sex when they do not want to out of fear of being rude. Rape might not even be a concept there, in the same way that societies that share everything equally would likely not understand the concept of stealing.

If Darulio was a sheltered alien who never left his home world, he might be able to claim ignorance. The fact that he’s an archeologist who studies other cultures means he should know better. He would know that his culture is very different from the rest of the union, and even if it’s against what he believes is normal, he should have notified everyone who comes into contact with him of his affect before they touch him and behaved himself in accordance with the sociatal norms of the union, not his home planet.

The fact that he slept with Kelly and Ed is 100% rape.

What do you think? What about how they handled the diplomats?

Edit: sorry this got so long, I never really sat down and thought about all the implications of this until now.

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Weight gain of a mid size dragon. Warm blooded carnivorous reptile.

I am working at a LARP and I’m playing a dragon handler. I have to pretend to be very knowledgeable about caring do a dragon with only 3 fixed data points for measurements. We can’t use “magic” explanations for this part, they want to have this lesson be very grounded.

At 2 years old they will be a little over 1000 lbs, 16 feet long

At 6 months old they will be 20 lbs, which is their adult weight. About 3-4 feet in length.

When they hatch they are only a few inches long, no weight given. Probably only a few ounces, maybe 1lb

Obviously 20 lbs is not 25% of the adult body weight, so what exponential rate of weight gain would make sense?

Since the 2 year old weight is the final weight it would make more sense for the weight gain to slow as it approaches 1000, but what would those 18 months look like in terms of growth? How much would he weigh on her 1st birthday for example?

The creature is a carnivore. How much food would a creature with this rate of growth need to eat?