True (although there's plenty of non-surprise mpreg even then, depending on fandom) but now I actually do desperately want a story where Enjolras goes into heat and NEEDS TO MATE but he won't have anyone but his bonded mate and the Amis are trying desperately to help but nobody even knew he was bonded and then Patria shows up and slams the door on their faces.
(...or the variation where Patria embodied doesn't, in fact, exist and the only way to get Enjolras through heat is to have people sit around and read political tracts at him for a week straight while he writhes in ecstasy. They all take it in shifts.)
(Even that one though would probably work better if you just had people go into pon farr and need their soulmates and leave out all of the social/dominance roles stuff.)
(I am runnning back into my old thing where I love all of the individual kinks that go into A/B/O but just sort of go 'but why' when people try to shove them all into a story together just because... trying to work just soulbonding or just alternate gendering or just dom/sub dynamics or just mpreg into the social structure of 19th century France and the way it shapes Hugo's characters seems brainbending enough.)
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(...or the variation where Patria embodied doesn't, in fact, exist and the only way to get Enjolras through heat is to have people sit around and read political tracts at him for a week straight while he writhes in ecstasy. They all take it in shifts.)
(Even that one though would probably work better if you just had people go into pon farr and need their soulmates and leave out all of the social/dominance roles stuff.)
(I am runnning back into my old thing where I love all of the individual kinks that go into A/B/O but just sort of go 'but why' when people try to shove them all into a story together just because... trying to work just soulbonding or just alternate gendering or just dom/sub dynamics or just mpreg into the social structure of 19th century France and the way it shapes Hugo's characters seems brainbending enough.)