"Do you ever feel like you stop existing? Not like you died or anything like that, but that you're a non-real, non-physical entity just... there? Technically occupying space, but not?" -🦊
"That's the psychosis, buddy." -❔️
"Hm... I'd argue depersonalization, but it doesn't feel dissociative." -🐦
"They're experiencing a delusion, we're literally delusional, guys." -❓️
"Oh yeah... not gonna lie, I kind of forgot about that." -🦊
"How?? Out of all of us, you experience it the most? Hell, you're probably a symptom holder." -❓️
"I hold a lot of symptoms for a lot of things. I've given up trying to keep track." -🦊
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"...yeah, pretty much. Boredom, open book, yada yada yada"
"That's not a whole lot of thoughts."
*amused cackles*
Why you gotta be so ruuuuuuude
Lmao
To be fair, [pronoun]'s got a point
Everyone else has a hard time fronting after Mayhem (non-sentient, no thoughts head empty /literal) because they go from head silence to having thoughts and it's jarring, and here I am, Certified Dumbass, just vibing
when you don’t think your the host but basically feel like the host and are acting like the host but aren’t acting like you but your acting as host but isn’t the host but is thinking like your host—
Earlier: "Ah! We've been doing so well lately. Our mental health issues have really been manageable! Go team!"
2 hours later, while sobbing "Everything has been so overwhelming lately T-T I can't even deal with one more thing"
That evening "I am SO UPSET about this issue and I NEED to vent! People are awful! I hate everything!"
10 minutes later, "...and that's why I believe balance should be more highly valued. People need to work on seeing things from different perspectives. It'd make everything so much easier!"
45 seconds after that: "Who am I? What was I doing? Hello?"
Now, "Huh, I think I might have just switched. What a wonky and strange sensation that never fails to amaze me. Oh, it's late, what were you all even doing? I'd better put us to bed, I guess." (I do not sound like that!) (You do when I'm writing it XD)
So the digital circus soundtrack randomly started playing in our head (thanks, whatever mysterious entity blasts music in here 24/7), and Pomni immediately popped into existence in frontspace, looked around, and just went "...WHY?!" in the most appropriately animated fashion and I'm trying to be a responsible mature host and not die laughing.
So we've always used Earth years to denote the ages of people in our system. But a lot of the time, that's still really an approximation and I'm not talking about mental age. I mean more like, how do you state the age of someone who spends a good deal of time using portals that take you somewhere and you stay there for however long then you come back through the same portal and return a moment after you left? Or in some cases, before you left?
How do you estimate age when you're talking about a person native to a planet where the years are longer than Earth's? And with time flowing faster on that planet than on Earth, how do you handle it when someone goes back and forth between Earth and that other planet?
Makes me glad our innerworld and the outerworld are more or less connected, timewise. We can stretch it a little - connect with Jas in the innerworld but she's busy so we try again a moment later outerworld time and hours later innerworld time. And sometimes we check in and it's been a few days since we've checked and they're still watching the same movie/doing the same thing they were last time we checked. This goes the other way too - sometimes they'll check in on us and it'll be a bad time and so they check back in a few hours later for us and only a moment later for them. Per tests, the most we can stretch this out in either direction is about a couple Earth months of experienced time, local to the Earth time of the main universe of the paracosm.
And there's one further wrinkle in all of this, relating specifically to portals. When you go through a portal, your body is broken down inside and reformed as you leave based on the pattern of it that exists in the Void. This normally isn't an issue - if you stick to your own universe. Which Jas doesn't, nor does Doc. (Though Doc we don't even try to estimate his age.) When you leave your home universe, a copy of your pattern is placed in the Void of the universe you go to. You use that when you teleport in that universe. But when you come back, you get reformed based on the pattern of you when you left. So if you go and spend months in another universe, as Jas did a lot growing up, you come back into a body that hasn't aged at all. But you still, heart and mind and soul, have the lived experience of being that other age.
Kinda like Narnia - the Pevensies grew up into adults in Narnia before coming back to Earth as children again.
So some of our ages are more just educated guesses than anything else lol.
Kinda makes me glad that at least for me, my inner age is basically just "I feel younger than the body. By how much varies."