a farspeech announcement

[yourattention]

Emotions. [The lack of introduction is partially because Connor rarely bothers anyways and partially because he's trying to minimize the amount of speaking he's doing.] They were banned on Ai'tuoh and I couldn't figure out why then but that's - the more you bottle it up, the faster the flowers grow. Every. Single. Time. You say "I'm f" -

[There's a hiss of pain and then a slow, shaky breath. Yeah, alright. That was maybe not a great idea, given that he knows that's literally how it's triggered.]

Every time you lie about how you feel, something new grows. Every time you tell the truth, I think - I think that's how you cure it. That's why the robots didn't get it at first. That's why the rates of dying were all different.

[Should he take his own advice? Probably. But he's not gonna.]

I have fluro, if you want it. It makes the nausea worse, but it makes it easier to breathe.

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[tuskenlancer]

[ Something shifts in her understanding, all at once. She'd been thinking banning emotions as in banning showing emotions - making everyone control them, deny them, try to act without their influence. Like the aliens on that old Earth show.

Removing them entirely...

CT goes silent for a long moment, trying to wrap her mind around this new revelation, trying to formulate an appropriate response. ]

...Fucking shit.