[Aww she's very cute! And lol Fraidy Cats Inc. The Miqo'te are certainly a very different type of cat-person than the Charr, that's for sure! I'd be fascinated to see what you'd make of the different character creation options for the kitty-types between the two games.]
Aurus couldn't help it. He burst out laughing.
He did at least manage to reel it in and apologize before it got away from him though. "I'm sorry," he said, still chuckling, "He is a rather singular experience, isn't he. I promise it's not just you--most people who meet him for the first time wonder if he isn't mad, and that includes most sylvari! He's not though, just a bit different."
Managing to regain his composure, he gestured along down the path, continuing the route they'd been on before they paused for their meeting. "Come, let's walk and I'll try to explain. He's right that there is much more yet to see." They hadn't even made it to the commons yet.
"Keserhn sees the world--I hope you'll understand what I mean when I say this--he has a telescopic sort of viewpoint. This is how I make sense of it anyway.
"You and I look around us and we see things in context. I, for example, look at your mouth and see the softness of your lips, their muted shade of pink," (evidently Aurus had no plans to stop flirting, even in the midst of a reasoned discussion), "and I think it would be lovely to feel the touch of them, but my attraction is because they're yours. I focus on them from a focus on you. That's not the way Keserhn works at all.
"He seems to see the world as though it's all a matter of magnified textures. Like looking through a telescope. You'd never see the whole picture unless you took your eye away from the lens. So Keserhn sees your hair and he immediately wants to put get his hand there because the texture is something captivating--there's more information than sight alone can't tell him. Touch is needed to fill in the rest.
"Of course he can, if he's reminded, pull his focus back and see the texture in context, but it's an effort for him. He needs to be told. Otherwise he's left with a texture that seems to just keep dodging out of reach.
"Mind you, it took me quite some time to figure all of this out about him. Believe it or not, Keserhn's actually incredibly astute. He could tell you almost anything there is to know about the Grove and the happenings within it. But most people never notice because they can't manage to get passed the initial," he made a vague gesture here with his hand, as though to indicate abstractly all that touching stuff.
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Aurus couldn't help it. He burst out laughing.
He did at least manage to reel it in and apologize before it got away from him though. "I'm sorry," he said, still chuckling, "He is a rather singular experience, isn't he. I promise it's not just you--most people who meet him for the first time wonder if he isn't mad, and that includes most sylvari! He's not though, just a bit different."
Managing to regain his composure, he gestured along down the path, continuing the route they'd been on before they paused for their meeting. "Come, let's walk and I'll try to explain. He's right that there is much more yet to see." They hadn't even made it to the commons yet.
"Keserhn sees the world--I hope you'll understand what I mean when I say this--he has a telescopic sort of viewpoint. This is how I make sense of it anyway.
"You and I look around us and we see things in context. I, for example, look at your mouth and see the softness of your lips, their muted shade of pink," (evidently Aurus had no plans to stop flirting, even in the midst of a reasoned discussion), "and I think it would be lovely to feel the touch of them, but my attraction is because they're yours. I focus on them from a focus on you. That's not the way Keserhn works at all.
"He seems to see the world as though it's all a matter of magnified textures. Like looking through a telescope. You'd never see the whole picture unless you took your eye away from the lens. So Keserhn sees your hair and he immediately wants to put get his hand there because the texture is something captivating--there's more information than sight alone can't tell him. Touch is needed to fill in the rest.
"Of course he can, if he's reminded, pull his focus back and see the texture in context, but it's an effort for him. He needs to be told. Otherwise he's left with a texture that seems to just keep dodging out of reach.
"Mind you, it took me quite some time to figure all of this out about him. Believe it or not, Keserhn's actually incredibly astute. He could tell you almost anything there is to know about the Grove and the happenings within it. But most people never notice because they can't manage to get passed the initial," he made a vague gesture here with his hand, as though to indicate abstractly all that touching stuff.