You give love a bad name.

[lilpoundcake]

WHAT IS LOVE?

baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more

Aaaah, that great philosophical debate.

I. Give us the basics, but also, no blank comments.
II. On the contrary, in the comment itself, characters must articulate what love (platonic, familial, romantic, universal, as a concept) means to them. To them personally. Eloquently or poorly, they have to use their words.
III. Repliers will shake their heads in simultaneous pity and judgment discuss one of life's fundamental experiences with the original responder!

Comments

The only thing about love that matters is if you love me.

[moredemons]

Love? No idea

[coldestsummer]

[one of those statements that sounds deliberately edgy but is just true for him.]

A chemical reaction that starts at the cellular level, if we're honest with ourselves.

[ugin]

[coldsong]

I don't think anyone is ever consistently honest with themselves. Granted, I'm biased.

Superfluous.

[sisterimperator]

[halfinlovewith]

Maybe. But it's pretty universal, even so.

As complex as any growing thing. It can go to seed as easily as it blooms.

[kitfromarose]

When someone has a cookie... and they give some of it? To me?

[ourlittlenordicangel]

A weakness to be avoided, or it'll be exploited.

[blue_ice]

bittersweet, but inevitable.

[frore]

A flame perpetually in search of moths to torch.

[coldsong]

[There's only so many times one can compare things to daggers.]

[sisterimperator]

[ That earned a sardonic smile. ]

So you would say that it's the flame that searches and not the moths?

as resilient as the moon, dictating the rise and fall of the tide.

[uptake]

[nakunin]

An interesting way of putting it.

I’m curious; what are your thoughts on the concept of unconditional love?

An anchor, a benediction, a guillotine. the beginning and end. both reason and madness.

[interviewwiththevampire]

Important but...distant.

[7pg]

an idea best saved for those with the means to welcome it.

[vigil]

[rovingstories]

What do you mean by "the means to welcome it"?

An open grave. Choking on soil filled with worms and rot. A chain, you see.

[fifille]

[cursedhyacinth]

Have you experienced the reality of your metaphor as well?

[Jacinda certainly has. The scars on their hands tell the story.]

Being there. So neither of you dies alone.

[helluvaboss]

[halfinlovewith]

For what it's worth, nobody ever dies alone.

A party!

[thrashingdragon]

And a gift you get at that party.

The emotion that makes life beautiful

[queenofkur]

A weakness.

[courtintrigue]

[glumraidh]

Cliche, though not untrue.

A lie so sweet that believing it causes the same great hunger as not believing it would do.

[heartdisease]

Glenn Sparks | original character | ota

[reorienting]

[ooc: CW: character has body horror, shapeshifting, tentacles and mild insect imagery.]

Love is strength and weakness in equal measure; a double-edged blade.

Your heart is in their hands. Theirs in yours. A delicate thing worth protecting. Worth bettering yourself for; to lose a deep love is agony unlike anything else.

Something that should be given freely at every opportunity

[acaseofyou]

[terrifies]

You're depreciating the value by flooding the market with love

if you don't stop they'll make a mountain and pay you to store the surplus love inside

PAINFUL

[tetrahedonist]

[43753493457345]

Got your feelings hurt before?

"Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease" etcetera

[wiggle_on]

[reformedzombiecrimelord]

But it is frightening, in a way, to be fully known, isn't it?

geto | jujutsu kaisen

[torridcompanion]

Love?

[he's about to bring death and destruction to the world and you ask him about love? but why not. as he speaks his gaze grows distant, his voice soft.]

It's sharing konbini ice pops and treats on a hot summer day. It's two cans of green tea between you on a stone bench, little leaves scattered. It's waiting in the rain or knowing they are waiting for you, even if you're running late again. It's getting into fights over things little and big.

It's riding on a bicycle together.

It's looking at the sky and have it look back at you.

It's letting go.

[coldestsummer]

What does letting go have to do with the rest of that?

Love saves us. And I don't mean that in the Hallmark way, I'm talking about-

[surelyheavenwaits]

-how it's the only thing that cuts through all the crap and keeps us fighting.

[coldestsummer]

Is that what keeps people going? Someone else told me it was ambition... dunno if I believe either, but they're pretty different answers.