User blog comment:Holokami/Psychena/@comment-4867780-20160329222923

Fascinating how sexuality is nonexistent is Psychena, while appreciation and love are fundamentally dependant on superficial beauty. Physical attractiveness is originally a selection tool in the pursuit of sexual partners, so it feels strange to see them dissociated so completely.

On the other hand, its inhabitant do reproduce through an alternate form of mating (that reminds me how Mass Effect's Asari species that conceives through psychic bonding), so it stands to reason that beauty would remain an essential factor in the choice of partners, and by extension in social life (even more so that it already is in real life).

Something puzzles me though : aren't Psychena's inhabitants universal shapeshifters ? As in, doesn't the inherently psychic nature of the realm allow them to shift their form at will ? If so, everyone would be able to meet the place's beauty standards through simple desire and imagination, which in turn would make one's inner self the most important factor in society.

Psychena reminds me a lot of Selforge City on various levels : a transcendent ruler as powerful as benevolent, a magnificent and ever-shifting realm, a unique superhuman "species" with infinite lifespan, a homogeneous community anchored in peace and unity, a high valuation of beauty (though everyone can live up to it via self-redefinition) and love (though sexuality also plays a key role in connecting them), and more generally a very hedonistic and carefree lifestyle ^ ^