The Drow Queen of Glaley [Very NSFW]

[Tethras Clan]

~A broad classification, and one, if I might be frank, that I personally approve of rather a lot. The only part I'm unsure of is what you consider to be 'outside factors' in this case.~

[Coquette Blacquin]

~Blackmail. Pain. Drugs. Threats. Enslavement.~ 

[Tethras Clan]

~Understood, thank you,~ Seli replies. ~And you believe that all noblewomen and many non-nobles have been raped? You don't think any of them love their partners and are willing, perhaps even eager, to have sex with them?~

[Coquette Blacquin]

~It doesn't matter. They'd be fucked no matter how they felt about it, therefore, it's rape, every time.~ 

[Tethras Clan]

~Hmm. I think I under your point of view there, but just to be sure; if one party wouldn't care if the answer was no, then the other party's consent is irrelevant? Or rather, is it more that you consider that consent to only be given because that person is aware the other party would pursue sex regardless, thus bringing coercion into the matter?~

[Coquette Blacquin]

~Both are the case. Saying yes because you know you'll be forced if you say no is common.~ 

[Tethras Clan]

~I see. So, in your experience, no noble couple has mutual consent? May I ask how you determined that?~

[Coquette Blacquin]

~It is beyond rare. how could it not be, when fathers sell their daughters to the highest bidder?~

[Tethras Clan]

~I can see how that would be the case,~ Seli agrees quietly. ~Not all fathers do such a thing, however. Thankfully.~

[Coquette Blacquin]

~All noble fathers do. That's why they have daughters -- to use as bargaining chips.~ 

[Tethras Clan]

~I'm sorry that you've been through all this. No-one should have to live with so little support and caring from their family.~

[Coquette Blacquin]

Noire finds herself honestly shocked by the sympathy. ~It's just how it is. That's all.~ 

[Tethras Clan]

~That is how it was, yes. But... don't you wish it wasn't? Do you never wish that your family had put your happiness before ambition or profit? That you had been able, no, been encouraged to marry for love? That your spouse had returned that love, along with trust and kindness and respect?~

[Coquette Blacquin]

~Why dwell on the impossible? I cannot live a life other than what I have.~ 

[Tethras Clan]

~You cannot change the past, no, but you can decide in the present to work towards a different future.~