You say that like you do not see me as an asshole, in which case I think most of the ship would disagree with you, or like you see me as a creature with feelings, in which case I would like to know how you came to that conclusion. [Unless, as Hakkai said, they have emotions but cannot recognize them.]
Believe me, I think you're an asshole. Just not as terrible as Lijah Cuu, that's all. And... you do seem like someone with emotions, just very muted ones.
How would you define an emotion? [Hakkai had defined it as a combination of thoughts and physical feelings. They wonder if Rawne defines it the same way.]
Often. When I was trying to figure out my emotions, concentrating on the physical sensations helped. Fear is felt in the stomach, for example. Anger in the chest.
[They have no idea what those things feel like. They have sensed those emotions in their victims, and understand what they are, but have never felt them.] What about arousal? I understand what it feels like, physically, but you felt it because you were lonely. [They were never attracted to him. What takes those feelings over the threshold from arousal to attraction? Their body had reacted to touch, but they had only wanted to understand his thoughts.]
Because you react to things, you don't just sit around doing nothing. You stabbed John Doe because you wanted to see if he had a body. That's an emotional response, in my mind, if not a very strong one.
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chaos_drifter) wrote2023-03-27 07:32 am
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You say that like you do not see me as an asshole, in which case I think most of the ship would disagree with you, or like you see me as a creature with feelings, in which case I would like to know how you came to that conclusion. [Unless, as Hakkai said, they have emotions but cannot recognize them.]
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How would you define an emotion? [Hakkai had defined it as a combination of thoughts and physical feelings. They wonder if Rawne defines it the same way.]
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Both at once, not one or the other?
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[They have no idea what those things feel like. They have sensed those emotions in their victims, and understand what they are, but have never felt them.] What about arousal? I understand what it feels like, physically, but you felt it because you were lonely. [They were never attracted to him. What takes those feelings over the threshold from arousal to attraction? Their body had reacted to touch, but they had only wanted to understand his thoughts.]
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Physically attractive? [Most men seem to like women who are curvier than them, or men who are muscular. Avalon is neither.]
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No. [He is not the first person to consider their default form attractive.] If you were emotionally attracted to me, it would be.
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That makes sense.
Why do you think I have ‘muted’ emotions? [If more than one person agrees on something about them, does that give them an identity?]
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Interesting perspective. Hakkai agrees with you.
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No, but… [They attacked him.] We talked after the Breach a few months ago, and when I asked about emotions on the Network.
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The idea of a physical component to emotions was new. I had never thought of it that way.
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Passenger. We lack identities of our own. [They have no idea why.]
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So I may be able to learn to feel. Did you lack emotions when you arrived?
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