Ayyyyyy how're you all doing then. Sorry, not a story chapter this. Related, but not tied into the timeline and such. Damn, I couldn't of failed in explaining that more if I tried (English is my first language and I fail at it more than do I any other. Jesus I'm hopeless), anyway.
I thought I'd bring it up now, because I was thinking about it, that the disparity between Levo and Dextro amino biologies isn't going to be as extreme as it is in game. I bring this up because of the inevitable human/turian relations and interactions that don't include throttling eachother to death and screaming obscenities about eachother's parentage.
For example, in game, a human eating Turian food would get it in their stomach and then double over with the worst case of bubbleguts this side of the Sol system. Vice versa for a Turian eating Human, Asari, Krogan, Salarian, or (assumedly) Hanar food. (I'm not even sure if Hanar have culinary experts really. They're big, stupid jellyfish.)
In this story, Visions, that isn't going to happen.
At all.
A human can eat Turian food (if they can get past the inevitable strangeness of the food's aesthetic, that is. Had thought of a human just slathering salt and spice on Turian steak and the Turians within three lightyears dying a little inside. Excuse me, need to chuckle.) without trouble, if they do suffer effects it's individual not Inevitable. same goes for Turians or even Quarians, if they could take off their masks without becoming the brightest beacon in the darkest quarters of the galaxy for just about anything that'll make 'em sick/dead. They can eat Human food, if they suffer effects it's individual. Not encompassing or inevitable.
Wether or not they'd get as much out of it as a human/asari/every other gods forsaken creature in the galaxy, I'm not sure. Probably. Make relations easier when you can join an alien family for dinner and not stare hungrily at the full bellies while yours sits empty and rumbling. Nyaha.
Similar goes for kissing a dextro/levo Alien. No one's gonna break out in hives, bloat to the size of an airship, and float off into the distance because you got to the various bases with an Alien.
The reasoning for this is because, from all I've looked up, the Dextro/Levo dichotomy was massively blown out of proportion than what would actually happen should a Dextro and Levo alien meet, kiss, eat wham-bam.
That being nothing, or very little of anything.
To some this may feel like a cop-out, which I can see why you'd think that.
But read the description.
I'm following canon rather loosely. I don't think there were demons waiting in the shadows for Shepherd's team and there certainly wasn't a 'clap if you believe' element to them.
That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!
Anyway, now that you've read my rambling and are probably thoroughly thinking "Tony get the feck on with it and get us back to the torture" which, fine, you dirty sadist. Next chapter's coming when I can get my fingers to work again.
Edit: Cannihilator brought up good points with his message on this chapter, being that it shouldn't not exist at all, but should still be prevalent. So, first, thanks Cannihilator, I recognize that I'm not the best at explanation so I thought I'd try to do better here.
I don't mean, with this clarification, that there's simply no reaction from dextro/levo pairings. It's still there, just individual and not as severe as ingame canon. In game, it's either one or the other. In Visions, it's possible for Dextro/Levo people to eat foods/drinks/etc. of the opposite acid. Reactions may or may not happen, but that depends on a person's makeup and what may or may not be wrong with them. Now, if it were contained to a single planet, that'd be one thing. But in Mass Effect, most Civilizations have planet spanning governments, crawling across solar systems. That's alot of people. There's a considerable amount of people that do get affected by the opposite acid-type, but they're in the minority, so it's generally assumed to be safe. Basically, it's forewarned with a "Be safe, don't be stupid." sort of message.
Again, for the third time, thanks Cannihilator for your words. Getting called on my bullshit's a good thing, helps me grow as a writer and not feel like an utter numbskull later on :)
