Having trouble relating to normal people would be Harley having a bit of a nervous breakdown over everything now that the Adrenalin rush has worn off and the SI not understanding that that sort of day wasn't normal for most people.
i know that may be what your little sister or equivalent wants when she says things like that but when someone claiming to be a adult says thing they mean them and then need to stand by them.
and to which no one thought getting told to go to hell in response was unusual, isn't that just a bit sad?
you didn't, it's just that people tend to not like other people not conforming to their... allowances i think is the right word? like how even when someone has a legitimate flaw you can't point it out if they have been in a war or something, either that or the ones other people have that they put have effort into making a instinct, that tends to set them of too, i like to think of it as 'memetically/culturally induced stress disorder' just to give it the weight i think it deserves.
.....if you understand social motivation but don't understand why people think it should be a factor that effects a persons decision making does that count?
Phrasing.
You know, I think that the last line is the only really concrete example of him flubbing dialogue in this segment. Everything else is him showing concern and curiosity at why she wanted him. He doesn't want to take advantage of her potential emotional instability. Had he continued his thought before being interrupted, I could see the case for him being bad at relating to normal humans now, but as is it looks a lot more like a relatively simple fuck up in dialogue that was backed with good intentions.
A month? I give it 36 hours tops.
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See here's the thing, someone shouldn't try to be blunt to someone they barely know cause cause it's not like they can go "No I don't want you to". Also context is important, Harley was probably thinking he was gonna be blunt about some weird sexual fetish or something along those lines since they were talking about Eris dominatrix dress, so when SI starts analyzing her and kinda insulting her, it kinda hits her out of nowhere.
I said a month specifically cause we're about to leave the SI behind for a Grayven arc for around that amount of time.
you know that one voice in your head that says 'i need to let them know [fact] before i tell them [observation] so that they won't have a biased reaction or fallacy that would be me manipulating them now that i know how that would work'? you need to either make then swear on something important and/or promise with money backing it up that they won't react badly to you doing it or you could do this to it
I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment.
No, but thank you for offering.
Feel free to cheer for whatever you want, but it is unlikely that the SI will do a 180 on that particular relationship.
What do you mean by 'accept'? Write whatever you want. I only canonise things that are in keeping with the story I am writing, but the QQ thread isn't going to have much continuity anyway.
Thank you, corrected.
True in terms of 'how things should be,' but quite a lot of people (regardless of sex, race, or most other considerations), no matter how old, are not really mature enough for that to work.
i like to keep something hard within arms reach when talking to unstable people, best to go straight from zero to 'semi-lethal without first aid' if someone like that takes a swing at you.
I'm still hoping against hope for OL/Delirium. Let me explain:
Planning on dating girls half your age once they become 18, while not illegal or against the rules of this site to my knowledge, is certainly creepy. 'Child grooming' comes to mind, even if it isn't exactly that.Even at the end when she's 19?
Well I'll keep praying to those jumped up elementals.
Yeah, that was alien as fuck. Specially when that attempt at compassion made me feel as that if people are only projects to him, and Paul apparently doesn't desire sex or romance. I mean, if Paul's asexual, that's fine. But between this and the whole "chemically castrated himself" thing a while back, maybe you should just out and out say he doesn't want it?
i thought it was said that it was Eris?
...Huh. Yeah, I guess that makes sense too.
Why did Paul not see her wanting that, then? She wanted to have sex with him, she wanted sex for a reason. That reason is a desire. He has empathic vision.
Do you have empathic vision too?
because despite reasons being desires her reason for doing it wasn't a desire, isn't language fun?
He doesn't do so as a matter of privacy. He usually turns it down enough to only see general emotions, but turning it up fully without sufficient cause is rude to say the least. So he may have seen that she had desire while talking to him, but didn't turn his empathic vision up enough to see what she desired. His comments today were saying that he didn't see any violet.
No, but then for all the use he gets out of it Paul might as well not have it either unless it's plot-related.
Contrary to most of the other comments, I don't think you overshot the mark at all. If anything, from my perspective you fell a little bit short of it because this chapter could have easily been a chapter in my own life. The SI's thought processes don't seem alien at all, and this kind of relationship trouble doesn't come across to me as being the result of having trouble relating to regular people.
This is really offputting. Real people DO, in fact, act like this. Real people DO, in fact, occasionally make blunders in pursuit of well-meaning ends. Real people DO, in fact, sometimes overanalyze things. It doesn't even require a psychiatric disorder, contrary to what some comments have suggested.
On the one hand, you're right. Maturity is something dreadfully lacking in most people. On the other hand, second-guessing someone's stated preference, ESPECIALLY if it's on the basis of something as bloody shallow as their gender, is a really awful thing to do, and assertions that you SHOULD do it only perpetuate the problem in the first place.
He DOES desire them, but he also understands the complications that can arise from intimate relationships. More strongly than he wants to experience sex or romance, he wants to protect people. He very strongly doesn't want to hurt people he cares about, which is why he's -- I won't say "slow"... "deliberate" is a better word -- why he's deliberate about his actions when these things arise.
Why yes, actually. It's called "not being a sociopath." I can see how other people feel on the surface, and given time to understand the person I can get a feeling for how they feel deep down. And the older I get, and the more experience I get seeing how other people think and act, the better I am at it.
If he was asexual he wouldn't have needed to castrate himself in the first place, Renegade had a sex cult for crying out loud. The issue is that Zoat has to make things hard for him cause reasons.
The reason people are calling it alien is because of the emotional light talk.
