Ethereum Gladiator: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"I suppose being a sex toy is preferable to death in battle, though I'm sure I knew a few soldiers who wouldn't think so."''|'''''Kyla Valstar'''''}}

 

 

 

That setting takes the form of a massive floating city full of [[Magitek]] out in the white void of the Twisting Nether called, creatively enough, the ''Nethercity''. The primary reason these ethereals wear humanoid form wrought from enchanted bindings, is because they want to be able to have sex. Anywhere and anytime they feel like it. Their whole society grew up around that, to the point that "virtue" is synonymous with "promiscuity" and wearing clothing of any kind is considered demeaning. This Nethercity also has a small population of what the Ethereals call ''fleshbound'' which is their word for the flesh and blood humanoid races of the Warcraft universe. All of these ''fleshbound'' either are descended from, or are rescuees that the Ethereum's Netherships bring back from nearby worlds, mostly Draenor.

 

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* [[Aliens Made Them Do It]]: And how. Reconstruction of this trope is the entire premise of the story.

* [[Alien Sky]]: The ever-present white void of the Twisting Nether.

* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Deconstructed. Some of the gladiators actually are happy, but the majority are merely complacent, and there are a small few who would leave if they could.

** Technically this gladiator situation is indentured servitude, not outright slavery.

* [[It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It]]: Subverted and Invoked. The ethereal Lonji forces himself on Kyla, but he's a professional and is very careful not to hurt her and is only doing it to gage her reaction. Kyla ends up subconsciously invoking this trope herself when she can't work up a sincere objection to Lonji's attentions.

* [[Le Parkour]]: To a small extent all the gladiators learn a bit of this. Kyla was already good at it before she got there.

* [[Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor]]: Justified. The Ethereals' bodies are artificial.

* [[Mangst]]: Shandel.

** According to [[Word of God]] the lubrication secreted by the tentacles is specifically formulated to be mildly antiseptic, so mild that permanent exposure is safe, but just stringent enough that gladiators rarely have to bathe.

** Also, the Trilophlorus.

* [[Sexy Mentor]]: Each gladiator is assigned an Ethereal ''Handler'' who's job it is to act as a combination of coach, therapist, lover, and guardian.

* [[Shower of Love]]: Sort of. Not really in the story itself, but [[Word of God]] is that the ordinary method of showering for average fleshbound citizens is a sonic cleanser, the vibrations from which usually cause inadvertent orgasms.