Thanks! The original idea for the world wasn't mine, but these particular details were :D (Or at least, I came up with them independently, if anyone else has written them before.)

Stephen's logic in the beginning is just parroting his parents' logic. He would have had a long and tearful argument with them on the subject, but they wouldn't budge, and now he's trying to convince himself he agrees with them so it won't hurt as much.

As for his strategies for seducing Jon...yeah, that was just a case of doing everything he could think of in a desperate attempt to find something that would work XD