25-02-13 That was uncalled for

[Stonefoot]

I should probably be asleep in bed now, not posting, which may have something to do with the fact that I just squicked myself out... twice.

The set-up:
I think it's plausible that Amber didn't go blonde until she got into the porn business. She may even have periodically gone back to brunette to take some pictures to send home, helping to maintain the fiction that she's got some mundane sort of job and has no connection to that "Amber-Amber" person. Just in case they hear about "that person". So her parents think she is still, and has always been, a brunette.

Squick #1: Amber and Ruby's dad has a cache of porn, and has no idea that his favorite porn actress, the 'blonde bombshell' Amber-Amber is his daughter.

Squick #2: He does know, and watches the videos anyway.

[Odd Man Out]

I'm pretty sure the dye-job alone wouldn't suddenly render someone unable to recognize their child and Amber seems to have been involved in a very particular niche of porn; cosplay/parody. Keeping her secret would be as simple as her family not sharing Gary's appetites for porn in general and that niche in particular. Besides, given what Ruby apparently thinks of porn it isn't that hard to picture the LaRose household as having little to none of it.

No, this family is dysfunctional but I doubt they're that warped. Most likely you've got too career driven parents whose idea of parenting was a bit lax.

[themacnut]

Besides, given what Ruby apparently thinks of porn it isn't that hard to picture the LaRose household as having little to none of it.

Don't forget that husbands (and sons) often keep their porn use secret from the rest of the family, precisely because of the general female attitude towards porn shown by Ruby (which she undoubtedly got from her mother). So Mr. LaRose may have a big hidden stash of porn while publicly condemning it to stay on the good side of his wife and daughter(s). If he knows about Amber being in porn, he may well be keeping that info to himself simply to avoid the potentially awkward question of how he came to know.

[Stonefoot]

...given what Ruby apparently thinks of porn it isn't that hard to picture the LaRose household as having little to none of it.

Actually, the statistics show that the more conservative an area is (states in the US, countries around the world) the higher the use of internet porn sites is. So maybe not a stash of DVDs, maybe an external hard drive with a lot of encrypted files, or just a lot of time on-line consistently followed by purging history and cache.

tl;dr: More conservative public attitude = more actual porn, not less.

[Spidrift]

Do I really have to point out that we know zero about the LaRose parents, except that they're well-off doctors, the mother seems a bit bossy and oblivious, and they're not so laid-back that Amber will casually come out to them about her career?

That's very, very little. Building pervy porn fantasies about Amber's daddy's stash just looks like dumb wanky slashfic.

Heck, assuming that Ruby's view of porn comes from her mother is a leap. Mummy may actually be a ditsy liberal, and Ruby may have adopted a principled feminist position on the subject as a rebellion... More likely, she just thinks that fucking strangers for money, so that spotty geeks can wank over images of you, while knowing full well that it might break your parents' hearts if they found out, is a bit sordid. That doesn't have to be a learned opinion; it's easy enough to reach it from first principles.

[wiseguy]

I don't think she's homophobic...I don't think she actually know that the campy gay man is Dillon. Misandrist...maybe a bit androphobic...sure, but not homophobic.

she knows that the blonde guy she met by the elevator is either gay or bi, and she just found out that her sister's roomie is named Dillon, but has not associated "blonde gay/bi guy she met" = "Dillon, the roomie of Amber"

[Azrael]

Yes, prim and proper...until the glasses come off.

No, no! Not the glasses! (If they come off she's not a meganekko anymore!)

The panties.

BTW: Quite safe for work, with some slight doubt if your supervisor is fluent in Japanese.

Ah, but see, once the glasses come off she is Ruby, Crimson Mistress of Pain and Lord of Discipline.

[Artemisia]

That's what I meant. Her reaction to Dillon and Jerzy doesn't show any homophobia...however, her reaction to "Dillon" is...well...either she's very repressed or she really doesn't like guys very much.

I don't think she's homophobic...I don't think she actually know that the campy gay man is Dillon. Misandrist...maybe a bit androphobic...sure, but not homophobic.

she knows that the blonde guy she met by the elevator is either gay or bi, and she just found out that her sister's roomie is named Dillon, but has not associated "blonde gay/bi guy she met" = "Dillon, the roomie of Amber"

[Error of Logic]

Ah, but see, once the glasses come off she is Ruby, Crimson Mistress of Pain and Lord of Discipline.

o_o *horrified screaming*

[wiseguy]

highly repressed?

maybe, maybe not

does not like guys?
unlikely

I think it was more of a reaction to "all the heterosexual guys she has met have been jerks"

has nothing to do with only porn actors as Amber already explained Dillon is not a porn actor

[Kol Drake]

Yes, she may be the 'brainy / no time for those silly reindeer games' kind of sister BUT, I suspect she's got a nice body underneath all those layers of 'tight control' and could equal Amber Amber in genetic hawt-ness. Okay, shades of 'librarian gone wild' coming to mind.... Anyway, should make for an interesting dynamic when Dillion comes home from his date swooning over the hunk across the hall.


How long before 'brainy sister' falls for the hunk too and we have a whole new edition of Menage a 3 !

[Error of Logic]

Maybe every boy she liked enough to bring home wound up dumping her for her big sister because she was developing a reputation for being easy to tumble.
*shrug*
We don't know yet, stay tuned.

[Spidrift]

Yes. If Ruby has a bit of a negative view of sex, it may simply be a reaction to the sight of a lot of spotty teenage boys (and one or two girls) drooling over her dumb big sister.

And big sis was definitely cute back then, whereas, while Ruby is actually quite fetching now, she's a bespectacled red-headed geek type. That spells "late bloomer"; in her teens, she'll most likely have been gawky, with an excess of freckles and a shortage of poise. Still quite cute, really, but the sort of girl who dumb teenage boys just don't appreciate. Put her alongside Amber, throw in parents who fail to understand the problem, and ... yep, you end up here.

[Error of Logic]

Losing every potential romantic interest to big sister as well as seeing their parents favour her would explain some of the frost Ruby still directs toward her now...

[Spidrift]

Note that their parents don't have to actually have favoured Amber. They just need to have made a basic mistake; thinking that over-praising kids to their faces makes them arrogant and vain. Which it does, so it's quite right to avoid it, but then you get two kids, and you don't over-praise either of them to their faces, but you tell each of them good things about the other, and if you're really screwing this up you use each of them as positive examples to the other...

It's entirely possible that Amber and Ruby each think that the other is Mummy and Daddy's favourite.