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[zunge]

[The anon post goes up sometime the early afternoon. It's been a while, but your friendly neighborhood pierced buttface is anoning it up once more.]

serious poll time~~

the last few days it hurt to moonlace. for some ppl at least. i dont know how fucking widespread this was soooo

answer. logged in or anon, whichever you prefer.

did that pain feel any different from normal pain? did it only hurt where you touched, or over a larger area? did it generate any chroma 4 u? enjoyable at all or completely sucky?



[ooc: all responses from Noiz will be anonymous text jsyk]

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un: sinistra | voice

[bisection]

[ Sinistra... still can't type well, so he continues to stick to the voice option. No anonymity for him. ]

It is painful. I believe that it starts from the point of contact and... bleeds out into you. There was no gain from it, but pain is important... it is a privilege. It is what keeps us sane. Alice would scold me if I complained. She could no longer understand pain. So I will not complain.

[zunge]

[A response like that definitely piques his interest. Also, if Dextera and Sinistra sound anything alike he'll get some sort of weird "wait, is this Dex under a different username?" vibe. Dex never told him the name of the person whose ability to understand pain that crystal orb of pure pain was supposed to restore, just that there was such a person who existed. Hmmm.]

Good. too many people complain about it. like yeah i get it it can be super intense and distracting at times but it's still important.

[bisection]

That is what she said too. I think she was sad about it. They all were... losing that was, in itself, painful. It makes one feel less human. Still... maybe, it is not pleasant, but enduring is what I owe her.

[ His voice is, for Noiz's reference, rather like his brother's though more scratchy and short on emotion. ]

[zunge]

...losing that was... emotionally painful?

[bisection]

I believe so. When we feel pain, we can regulate ourselves... we can be sure we are alive. That is what I understand. Without pain, I believe, we likely cannot understand pleasure, either. All of that... in is painful in a different way, I think. Emotionally, like you said.

[zunge]

[He may very well out himself here to people who know about his condition, but fuck it. They at least know not to go outing him where others can see.]

one can know pleasure without knowing pain. Keyword 'can.' for some people that might not be possible. though ppl who don't know pain are very uncommon. if she knew pain at first and lost the ability to know it, that's even worse than never knowing it. someone who's never known pain wouldn't understand its value beyond how it makes them different, how it affects their ability to relate to others.

[bisection]

Mm. Alice seemed sad when she spoke of it. Back then, she said all the beings in that world had forgotten pain. Well, most, because this body and the body of that man still remembered.

It was enough to drive people crazy, forgetting that pain. Forgetting how to hold onto themselves.

I have never met anyone who did not know pain at all. You are right, that must be different. A different kind of feeling... of suffering.

[zunge]

"this body and the body of that man" <-- that sure raises questions

the way you describe how it affected them, it sounds like having something important ripped out of them and they couldn't figure out to function like they used to. even though they had once known those things. their memory got wiped or what?

it's likely unlike what anyone who's known pain can imagine.

[bisection]

Does that mean you would like an explanation? It would be a long one. Perhaps too long for anyone to listen to.

For some, they could not remember. For others, they could not forget. Both of those things twisted those people into grotesque things. They have all become distorted. We are the least, my brother and I. We are the most intact for reasons I should not say without his say.

I suppose so... that is, is it better to have and lose or never have at all? I, too, think that that suffering cannot be compared. They are related but unique from one another.

[zunge]

it means I'm curious enough to pay attention to one.

it's better to have and lose, but remember.

[bisection]

This body is not my own. My body died a long time ago. Still, even when I was incorporeal, I felt the pain I felt while I was living.

That man... his body was fused into a Consciousness Orb - a large object that can transfer information out into the world between it and other orbs. He complained about his body aching.

We two still suffered enviable pain in that world. My brother also did.

That is what she seemed to think, too.

[zunge]

that's got to be the weirdest thing I ever heard - a spirit feeling pain

she sounds like she has a worthwhile brain in that head of hers

[bisection]

I know it must be strange, but it was the state I was in.

You are right, she does.

[zunge]

does it feel different as a spirit vs when having a living body?

text, un: seirinshadow

[punchpass]

[Kuroko didn't really feel the need for anon, but he could mostly understand why whoever this was wanted to. Still, such a strange question.]

I don't think I can help you
My friends and I mostly avoiding touching and the rain when we heard about it
however I don't think it felt any different than normal pain.

[zunge]

that's not surprising. most people make an effort to avoid unnecessary pain.

[punchpass]

I also prefer to not cause any unnecessary pain either.
Were you hurt during this event?

[zunge]

Aren't you extra normal.
Let's say the experience was very confusing.

rude, noiz

[punchpass]

That didn't answer my question.
And I would hope it is a normal tendency to not want to cause pain for others.

[zunge]

i noticed :P
it's the expected, normal tendency

[punchpass]

Are you saying that you don't react normally? Though I suppose it would depend on the situation.

[zunge]

Look, anyone would be weirded out and confused by something that shouldn't have hurt hurting.

text, un: connorsp

[goodweather]

It was from point of contact and radiating out, at least for me. Didn't feel any different than normal pain. It had a fun habit of exhausting you too though.

[zunge]

it sounds almost like chroma draining instead of generating

[goodweather]

That would make sense, although if it's "draining," then I wonder where it goes. Maybe the nanobots?

[zunge]

chroma stealing villains aren't exactly unheard of around here.

[goodweather]

... I wish that I could say I was surprised.

I've done my best to strictly avoid it while it was still happening, so I can't offer much more info than I've given you about the painful moonlacing. Much luck with whatever research you seem to be doing.

[zunge]

you must be new. there were some around a few months back.

sounds typical. thx.