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[parrygripp]

"Can You Handle Your Emotions?"

Emotions are... eh. We all have them, whether we want to or not. Some people have control over their emotions, and some people let their emotions control them. Where does your character fall on this spectrum? More importantly, what's their relationship with their emotions like? Do they bury everything deep, deep down inside, or are they the first one to cry over a sappy movie? Do they even know how they feel about what's going on inside? Pretty meta stuff.

• No blank top-levels.
• Instead, characters are to respond to the proposed question: can you handle your emotions? / are you in touch with your feelings?
• Get deep. Look within. Hear, think feel... or don't.

Comments

[fellfurthest]

Yes. [Nod!]

Free will is inviolate. [He doesn't say it monotonously like it's merely rote, just like it's so factually a law of the universe, he could speak with more engagement about whether water is wet, or how perception of colors differs but definitions correspond back in the end etc.]

[He still gets migraines when he tries too hard to break down "but then why [x]?" but he does know it.] Just because Tucker's law is valid, [a more sweary version of Murphy's law of chaos but based on humans being generally obnoxious whenever possible.] doesn't mean everyone else's free will ceases to matter either. It's all just math. Belphie can be as irrational and stabby as he wants, but I don't have to ignore it and let him have access to knives.

And if the little lamb he's going to stab isn't smart enough to not open his cell door and let him out, I can still make sure they're better equipped to freeze him in his tracks.

Hypothetically speaking, of course. [YEAH TOTALLY. Wouldn't lock up his baby stabby brother and lose the human transfer student to DEATH or anything. NAH.] If it only takes one dumbass to fuck everything up, it also takes only one equally oblivious idiot to fix things too. Everyone has to go about it their own way. I can't lobotomize myself. [He kind of tried. And Satan was born. And STILL smarter than the rest of them.] So I have to do it with knowledge. But idiots have a knack for doing the impossible just because they're too oblivious to listen to everyone telling them to stop being stupid. [It's like how Mammon comes across really successful ideas sometimes. It's just math. EVENTUALLY after you have 99999999999 incredibly stupid ideas, one eventually is going to work as long as you don't stop mixing them up.]

Well again, this is what I like about factory tours and Rube Goldberg machines. [His father literally created him to be a chain reaction catalyst and just enjoy watching the whirring.]