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[tomatoandbasil]

[Do you know who is bored? Like, ultra bored? This week off from work to finish healing and relaxing from the jailbreak has been slowly driving Alleyne mad. How does one relax after a thousand years of constant work? What is a vacation? What do you do with free time? She's been scouring the castle looking for anything to occupy herself that her

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[frostandfrogs]

ummmm
why are you asking about that alleyne?
do you like someone????? :O

Filter forever because yeah

[tomatoandbasil]

What makes you think that, Jade?

[Deny deny deny.]

yup.

[frostandfrogs]

weeeellll
usually when someone asks this stuff it is because they personally need advice right??
i mean why else would you ask!
it is ok i wont tell anyone you have a crush :D

[tomatoandbasil]

What if I'm just asking as one curious about society or culture in general?

[That excuse won't work will it?]

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[azure_guardian]

[well he won't use it against you but it may be awkward to explain it to a technical three year old AI.]

That is a good question.

Forever and ever

[tomatoandbasil]

[We can be awkward together forever then!]

So I'm not the only one confused about this?

[azure_guardian]

On a certain level. I can understand love regardless of my states of being a computer program, I do not understand why it is so commonly used.

[tomatoandbasil]

It's confusing and leads only to pain and anger, yet many rush right on in, even knowing that. Why let yourself get hurt?

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[her_mouse_jesty]

Oh Miss Alleyne, love is one of the most wonderful feelings in the whole entire world~!

Forever

[tomatoandbasil]

Is it? In my short experience with it, it hasn't been at all.

[her_mouse_jesty]

You just haven't found your one true love yet.

[tomatoandbasil]

[Wut? You sound like the books she was reading.]

How do you know if you've found them, though?

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[justcharles]

Scientifically speaking, creatures of all sorts engage in courtship and relationships in order to pass on their genetic traits to their children. It's something of a complicated dance for such a simple purpose, but there you are.

Of course, that's looking at it entirely scientifically. I've known many who've chosen to engage in relationships entirely for selfish purposes, because making the person they're interested in feel good makes them feel good as a result.

As for the why, that's something only you can determine. Is there a person who makes you happy without trying to? Do they make you desire a relationship, despite your unfamiliarity with the concept?

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[tomatoandbasil]

[Holy shit where did this wall of text come from]

I know about it increasing mating chances, but the few I've also seen people use others for various reasons, mostly painful. A lot of it was give and take, with one giving and the other taking; not much reciprocation. Selfishness of the bad sort.

[Going to ignore part of that last bit for now.]

I'm not unfamiliar with it just...confused. Seems like too much work.

Instructors unite? =3

[justcharles]

[He's good at that. It comes from being over-educated and under-socialized due to his ability.]

Such is the nature of human relationships. It's a very trial-and-error sort of environment, since each person is different than the next, there's no telling what they'll have to give in a relationship, and what they'll ask for in turn. The best one can hope for is a compromise of sorts, where the give and take is equal and desired.

Some choose to see it that way, sure. Relationships are quite a bit of work, but one might argue that if you're in a relationship that's good, the sacrifices one must make are worth it, because you get as good as you give.

aww yiss

[tomatoandbasil]

[Oh, socially awkward buddy, how are you]

What about those of us that aren't human? Or aren't from Earth? Is this all universal as it seems to be?

And what if they never are returned? Wouldn't it just be time wasted?

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[inafadingcrown]

[How can you get to one thousand without knowing that, Alleyne? If she sounds like she's smiling as she answers, it's because she is.]

There are few forces more powerful than those of love- regardless of its nature. The history of my people, indeed of my world, is filled with great deeds done in its name.

I imagine that courting customs vary as widely as the cultures represented here. Do you not know of those of your own?

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[tomatoandbasil]

[That's easy; by being meatheaded and married to your work.]

Our is more filled with violence and conquering than there is anything born out of great love.

There weren't really any; you just fell in with who you fell in with and went from there. A lot of it was as aggressive and selfish as our history.

[inafadingcrown]

We have no small amount of that as well. But against such darkness that which is light shines all the brighter.

And that is why you question the desire to pursue it? Love need be neither aggressive nor selfish. Indeed, it may inspire selflessness in a way that naught else can. [If you can't tell by now, she's secretly a hopeless romantic. Being happily married for thousands of years will do that to you.]

[tomatoandbasil]

[Bleh, that's mushy.]

A few experiences with it have left me guarded and angry. I'm hoping to quell it before harm befalls others again.

[She means herself obviously]