# Valentines Day Question
**URL:** https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/valentines-day-question/292
**Category:** General
**Created:** [February 14, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/valentines-day-question/292 "2021-02-14T03:40:16Z")
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### Author:  [@zakueins](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/zakueins)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/valentines-day-question/292/1 "2021-02-14T03:40:16Z")
I know that there’s been a small bit of how love and romance works in the Empire. I am just curious about two things.
First-is there an equivalency of Valentines Day in the Empire?
Second-how…_interesting_ would the Eldrae take on Valentines Day on Earth be?
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### Author:  [@Maximilian\_Crichton](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Maximilian_Crichton)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/valentines-day-question/292/2 "2025-06-27T00:41:50Z")
I can easily imagine that a Imperial equivalent to V-Day would be a day of the year when relationship groups ‘devolve’ into a game of good-spirited gift/service one-upmanship, raucous intimacy, or some combination thereof
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### Author:  [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2025, 2:54am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/valentines-day-question/292/3 "2025-07-08T02:54:52Z")
> [@zakueins](#):
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> First-is there an equivalency of Valentines Day in the Empire?
The Feast of Love and Life, Súnarast 2 (at the start of spring).
> [@zakueins](#):
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> Second-how…_interesting_ would the Eldrae take on Valentines Day on Earth be?
It’s so… _staid_.
No decorations in the streets or feasts in the temples? No duels? No grand dances? No best friends acting as go-betweens and personally delivering hand-forged gifts? No scandalous liquors with erotically carved peach-pits? No hedge-labyrinths full of strategically arranged perfumed bowers? No exquisitely calligraphed origami birds carrying messages between lovers in the rosy light of dawn? No passionate balcony declarations against the sunset? No _lightning_? Not one single, solitary, _aria_?
Y’all are really saving all that passion for angry mobs and dominance posturing, ain’ch’a?
(If you can get through the major love-themed day of the year without being even a little operatic, you’re doing it all wrong.)
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### Author:  [@Morgrim](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Morgrim)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/valentines-day-question/292/4 "2025-07-08T13:43:11Z")
Which sounds, ironically, like they’d think high schoolers were the only ones actually _getting_ it. Or at least at the school I went to, there were… well. There were attempts. Mostly things like handmade custom mix-tapes, paper flowers of varying qualities, friends recruited as go betweens, and I flattened one idiot who thought it was funny to publicly gift me a _sparkly G-string thong_.
Which may at least get approving the effort, even though the application needed serious work. And lamenting that these sort of things are seen as “childish” by Terran culture.
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### Author:  [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/valentines-day-question/292/5 "2025-07-08T15:13:56Z")
> [@Morgrim](#):
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> And lamenting that these sort of things are seen as “childish” by Terran culture.
Somewhere a very cynical observer is pointing out that having built a culture in which all unironic expressions with emotional valence - outside the officially approved two minutes hates - are deemed “cringe”, it’s no bloody wonder _some people_ can’t keep their TFR at or above replacement.
It’s like trying to breed _Jedi!_