All Canon Telepath Relationships
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"Transgression" and Canon's Telepath Relationships by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms, Babylon 5 (TV 1993)
08 Jul 2022
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I discovered this pattern as I was researching something else - every single canon sexual relationship, or incident, involving telepaths in the Corps or MRA, is "transgressive" of in-universe social norms, and every single such relationship that doesn't fit this pattern is omitted from the narrative!
I can't find one on-screen or on-page healthy, stable relationship between telepaths in the Corps or MRA - all such relationships aren't shown, as if they can't exist. The most stable relationship we see is... the Dexters!
In order to explain this, I have to talk about in-universe porn, consent/non-con, and inter-caste power dynamics, so I've given this an M rating, but this essay is more of an academic treatment of the subject than examples of actual porn (though I provide lots of canon examples of the relationships in question).
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- Part 185 of Behind the Gloves