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Fifty-Third Keychain - [Voice/Action]

Feb 11, 2011 01:34

[Roxas is not stupid. Let's just make that clear. He's a bit of a derp, yes, but he's not stupid and he's been keeping track of the days. Valentine's Day is very soon, and he knows that that usually means the Malnosso do everything they can to mess with them on the holiday ( Read more... )

roxas went over this on day 171, roxas clearly needs a hobby, valentine's day, question for the masses?, roxas is getting tired of not knowing, roxas is a derp, what's love?

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[voice] count_gardios February 11 2011, 17:19:31 UTC

I know a few real stories and a few fairy tales, but I can't say one is more common than the other. Just more well-known.

Are you looking for anything in particular?

[voice] perplex_me February 11 2011, 20:47:21 UTC

I'm just looking for something that explains what love actually really means. Make sense?

[voice] count_gardios February 12 2011, 04:26:08 UTC

Hah...well um, that's a pretty broad spectrum.

There's familial love, platonic love, romantic love, physical love...there's a lot of different kinds. I guess I could generalize it for you, if you'd like.

[voice] perplex_me February 12 2011, 23:25:56 UTC

Generalizing will probably be easiest...why are they all different?

[voice] count_gardios February 13 2011, 09:01:15 UTC

Different feelings with how you approach them, levels of comfort with the people involved, so on and so forth. There's a lot of smaller, lesser feelings involved whenever you try to categorize love.

I think pretty much the only thing you can say is the same about all of them is a desire to be around that person and make sure that person is and stays happy.

[voice] perplex_me February 13 2011, 09:05:35 UTC

That makes sense. And so the level changes based on how happy you want the person to be and how comfortable you are.

...does love have to involve feelings?

[voice] count_gardios February 13 2011, 09:06:37 UTC

...generally speaking. I can't really see how you can love someone without them.

[voice] perplex_me February 13 2011, 09:11:38 UTC

So people without feelings really can't love. That's generally how it is? [He's mostly checking to see if Xaldin and Axel were right.]

[voice] count_gardios February 13 2011, 09:13:21 UTC

Er-

I'm not sure. I've never met someone without feelings before. ...maybe more like if people can love, they have feelings.

[voice] perplex_me February 13 2011, 09:14:59 UTC

There's a few of them running around here. But if a person doesn't know what love is, how would they know they can? [Roxas has a tendency to ask questions that really don't have answers. Sorry, Guy.]

[voice] count_gardios February 13 2011, 09:16:06 UTC

The same way you diagnose an illness. You look at the symptoms.

[voice] perplex_me February 13 2011, 09:16:54 UTC

The symptoms...that whole wanting to be with people all the time and the funny feelings in your stomach thing? That's what Emil said, anyway.

[voice] count_gardios February 13 2011, 09:19:04 UTC

Yup. There's quite a few symptoms for the lovesick, especially that of the romantic variety. Some of them you wouldn't even imagine being symptoms of love, too.

[voice] perplex_me February 13 2011, 09:20:18 UTC

You wouldn't be able to tell me what they are, would you? Just in case I need to know for later.

[voice] count_gardios February 13 2011, 09:23:53 UTC

Well, like Emil said, wanting to be around that person and having a strange feeling in your stomach. A desire to make sure that person stays happy and healthy; just a general feeling of wrongness if you see them upset or crying.

But there's also things like being upset when that person spends more time with someone else instead of spending time with you, or even getting angry with that person over things that usually wouldn't make you angry. Behaving irrationally is another big one; doing things you usually wouldn't do, acting on impulse.

Any of this sounding familiar?

[voice] perplex_me February 13 2011, 09:31:56 UTC

Sort of, but not really. I want both of my best friends to stay happy and healthy, and sometimes they both really make me mad about stupid stuff they do, but the other stuff doesn't really fit.

Love's one of those things we're not supposed to feel, so I doubt I'll ever really recognize any of those symptoms.

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