Event Log: A Little Touchy-Feely

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the A Little Touchy Feely event
Where: In the city of Hadriel
When: September 20th-29th
Warnings: Cuddles? Please keep in mind our rule about potentially adult content.

In the morning of September 20th, you wake up with an itch you can't quite seem to scratch. There's a strong impulse, lingering in the back of your mind and it's difficult to figure out exactly what you need at first. You may be unhappy, unsatisfied for most of the morning, but everything clicks when you run into someone else- whether it's a casual interaction with a roommate or friend or a more intimate one with a boyfriend or girlfriend, after a brief moment of contact, suddenly everything falls into place.

You'll spend the next week or so seeking out that contact, consciously or unconsciously. It's not enough to have a handshake or a hi five, you want to be close to people: physically, emotionally, any way you can get it. The closeness makes you happy, the happiness makes you forget about how lame it is on a rocky desert island on an alien planet. Everybody wins, right?

Make sure all cuddles are consensual, and try to stave off the horrible coldness that comes from your fear of being alone, at least for a few more days!

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Comments

[hasitsthorns]

[ How many has he had, actually? She figured enough if he was throwing his arm over her shoulders but, well- Eh. It's fine.

Let the guy live a little. ]

I mean, that's a lot easier said than done. I tell myself I'm not gonna' get close to people. Back home, I just kept moving before I could but in Haven and here... I'm stuck. And when you interact closely with the same people a lot, no matter what, you're gonna' get attached.

[completelycrazy]

Well, yeah.

[He's overdone it on the drinking, for sure, but with good reason. This event! Is garbage!!!]

I'm not, like, this cold and unfeeling guy. You might think I'm a dick, but I just mean... Friends? Yeah, friends are fine, on like a casual sort of level. You know. Nothing I'm gonna lose all this sleep over if I'm out of here tomorrow.

[Which, he won't be. There's a slim chance, but he's long since learned to expect to wake up in this crappy little town for every foreseeable tomorrow. He sighs heavier than he means to, his shoulders sagging.]

Man. This event sucks.

[hasitsthorns]

[ To that, Rose can only give a thoughtful hum. Does she think he's a dick? Sometimes. She thought her Newt could be, too. Just a lack of sensitivity, really- But like she's one to talk. ]

I wish I could think like that, actually. It'd have made things a little easier early on but. Guess I'm too much of a social creature for my own good.

[ That last bit gets a little laugh from her. ]

Why? Not feeling the love?

[completelycrazy]

Guess so.

[He's never understood why it's hard for other people to think like he does. It can't just be an intelligence thing. It takes mental fortitude to be able to compartmentalize as well as he does, he figures.

Granted it's getting harder and harder these days, but who's counting?

The laugh irritates him for a reason he can't place. He pulls his arm away. It stings, but whatever. It'll pass.]

Not really. Even if I was, it'd be god-manufactured. It's not real.

[He slumps over his beer instead, tracing the rim with his fingers.]

[hasitsthorns]

[ Or it could just be things called perspective. Different experiences. Differing world views, differing beliefs. If everyone could see things the same way, it'd all be a lot more peaceful, wouldn't it?

But it'd also be a lot less interesting.

She notices the pull away but doesn't let it phase her. She didn't expect him to be so bristly just because of that but- Newt could be a sensitive guy, sometimes, and she's not the best at being tactful. ]

What makes emotions real, to you?

[ Color her curious. ]

[completelycrazy]

[He expects that he'll need to think about that one for a second, but actually, the answer comes out easily.]

When they're spontaneous.

[He pauses to sip at his beer. That's it, that's the explanation... But, wait, no. He will probably need to explain this further.]

And I don't mean in layman's terms. Not, like, oh, this sudden thing. Spontaneous doesn't mean "suddenly". It's like... It's that, but it's more complicated, it's like, emotions that occur without external influence. It's purely internal. Spontaneous combustion is the ignition of something due to chemicals reacting in lieu of an external heat source. It happens, like, because of the thing itself, not because of the conditions the thing is in.

[It's not a perfect analogy, but this is pretty much the best he'll ever be at explaining an emotion-based thing.]

[hasitsthorns]

[ ... Huh. Surprisingly insightful. ]

Okay, so- Only feelings you caused. I guess that makes sense, in a way. You wouldn't be afraid if something scary wasn't put in front of your face, that kind of thing. I get it.

I guess it just really bother me, maybe. The gods do what they gotta' and if feeling is the least they need from me... Well, that's fine.