If the population is limited or the genepool isn't diverse enough there could possibly even be government regulation, mostly boiling down to "At least have a kid with someone." Mostly thought that would give anti-gay rights activists ammo/justification though. In their eyes anyway.
Huh. Yeah, as mentioned before the country isn't too terribly huge, mostly consisting of five medium to major cities (by early 1900s standards) and assorted farmlands in between, so while it's relatively ethnically diverse, the overall population is still smallish, and particularly so after the initial year or so of the war wiped out a lot of the soldiers.
General view in the area beforehand is where the view point of society is starting from generally, so that's that.
Some quick-and-sloppy research tells me the Balkans region has generally been more on the conservative end of things, and in recent years has seen a strong swing back to more traditional views. This being an alternate universe grants me a certain degree of leeway with that, but it would probably take some serious stretching for me to claim "nah they're totally cool with it, have been for ages."
The last point is unlikely if possible with how many hide their identities and the few that don't essentially being the "Face" of them, so they more than anyone would probably need to look good in front of society. It depends on how much they feel they could get away with I suppose, and having anyone wanting and willing I suppose.
Well this case actually could work, given the pilots themselves and the power that comes with that, in the present circumstances. If Victoria or someone said something, it would probably produce some grumbles, and strong reactions from the reactionaries, but overall people would have to run with it because she's the one with the giant robot keeping the other giant robots from killing us all. Not ideal, but it's something.
So overall, that narrows it down a bit. On the homophobia scale between "Burn the gays" and "Total acceptance" it's probably somewhere in the range of "Conceal don't feel" to "Don't ask, don't tell" or maaaaybe even "Ellen Puppy Episode controversy"
...Yes, I made a whole scale for this. Why? It's a long story.
Huh? It's a fictional country from what is otherwise the real world, why wouldn't we just use Europe and Asia?
Oh. I completely misunderstood the premise of the quest, then.
Well, yes and no. I figure it's similar enough that the broad concepts of the continents would still be more-or-less the same, but specific countries and borders would probably be a bit different. Something I actually plan to sit down and flesh out a bit better at some point, since as mentioned before Mzendzyovka is something of a melting pot of Not-Russia, Not-Ukraine, Not-France, Not-Britain, and Not-Turkey cultures and ethnicities, and I want to better define what that all entails.
Also, one of my classes this semester is on European history of the 1900s, and it's already proven rather informative and enlightening about things I didn't even know I didn't know before. While I was thinking more about WoC when I took it, it's highly likely to prove useful for this as well.
