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[sassymaru]

[The content of this post is probably going to be a dead giveaway, considering things like mannerisms, the question enclosed... all of that. But it's worth a shot, isn't it?]

[Worth a shot without troubling too many people who are already bothered enough with current events.]



Those of you who weren't human beings before your arrival here...

Have you had much issue adjusting? Even years after your waking in this world? Or any issue at all.

Things perhaps you had stopped considering, until events have brought them back to light.



Feel free to keep your anonymity, if you wish.

Comments

[bugbeverage]

bona fide non-human here!

adjusting is a HUGE pain in the ass but im kinda into it

all these new sensations and emotions and CHEMICALS holy shit the chemicals in my brain its fucking nuts

DOPAMINE!!!!!

[sassymaru]

How long have you been adjusting, if I may ask?

... dopamine being...?

[What chemical is that!! Enlighten him!!]

[bugbeverage]

five or six months something like that if you count the last time i was here

i only just got back but i dont remember being gone so who cares lol

dopamine is the drug your brain makes when you watch somebody eat shit on the sidewalk or eat a candy bar or give your right hand a workout

stuff like that!

[sassymaru]

Ahhh, I see. A welcome back is in order, then.

So when something pleasing happens, human brains produce this chemical?

[bugbeverage]

yeah baby the good brain slime t he GOOD JUICE

at least thats what the internet says

[sassymaru]

Have you encountered any difficulties? Even with your... good juice?

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[pennyloafer]

[Louie isn't really concerned about anonymity this time around, since at the start he was pretty vocal in his complaining about being human now. It hadn't even been a big adjustment, all things considered, more he'd needed to complain about something.]

Being human stopped being weird to me before too long. Although I do kind of miss feathers when it gets cold. But really? The only thing that's still a bit of a pain is explaining what I was. People hear duck and they think I was some animal in a pond.

[sassymaru]

... I must admit.

A pond was also my first thought.

[pennyloafer]

Yeah, well, like I said... You're not the first.

We don't even have humans where I'm from, though. All the people ducks and dogs and pigs and stuff, but still just people. And the animals are pretty much a totally different thing.

You know, now that I think about it, that's probably why it's not weird to me anymore, being human.

[sassymaru]

No human beings at all? You'd never seen them before being here?

How... strange. I've never heard of anyone in that situation yet.

[pennyloafer]

Not really. I mean, there were these kind of human people once, but they were terrifying-looking. That was a weirdly specific situation, too. It happens a lot to my family.

I don't think I've heard of it being that way for anyone else, either. I guess it's kind of odd.

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[styxiedust]

There were some issues! At first! Not having my notebook wasn't nice and I did unfortunately forget that I can't fly anymore other times.
(⌒_⌒;)

Seven years, though, I think I'm doing all right now. It's the more existential things sometimes like loss and mortality that get me.

[sassymaru]

Your notebook?

Ah, that is... that is quite a long time. I can see how one would have adjusted in that time. Though - I've been here longer than my own world.

I can't help but feel these issues should have faded by now.

[styxiedust]

I had a notebook that recorded the profiles of every living person in the world.

I swear that make sense in context. I felt somewhat out of my depth without it, but I adjusted!

[Makes sense in context in that she works for the afterlife, so, she would know about every person as a means of judging their moral fiber.]

Well. I suppose that depends on what you expect out of "adjusting." Would you say the problem is you're still not content with being a human, or something else?

[sassymaru]

I... see. I also see why that might have disappeared, in a place where so many worlds convened.

It is


It is something else. And being human itself. Both of those things.

[styxiedust]

I see.

Then, if you're comfortable with sharing, where does your discomfort in being human lie? What is the "something else"?

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[gobetween]

Oh I for sure had a hard time adjusting, eh? This kinda shape is so different from the way I was before, I feel like I had to learn how to walk all over again!

I like to think I've adjusted pretty well by now though. But sometimes... no, most times, I still really miss how I am back home. Even as neat as this is, I still feel like I'm stuck in an alien body, up here in Outer Space.

[sassymaru]

Your shape? May I ask what was so different?

You are the first to admit they miss how they used to be. Are humans unfamiliar to you?

[gobetween]

Oh I can answer those together! Humans are definitely unfamiliar to me, because I'm a Fraggle. We live underground, pretty far from humans except for maybe a tunnel or two that leads up; no one's ever gone out there on their side though, except for my Uncle Matt.

Fraggles are... Well, I dunno how to explain us, really! We're small and furry, kinda vaguely human-shaped? But with snouts and tails. So when I first wound up here, oh man was it a huge learning curve at first. I'm STILL getting used to all the weird differences between humans and Fraggles.

[sassymaru]

Ahh I see. I'm familiar with the term. Another one of your number is here as well, correct? But I don't think I've heard a description yet.

[Granted, he hasn't really asked, but that was mostly because the one other he'd met seemed to be on the anxious side.]

I suppose I feel similarly. I'm not at all used to being a human being whatsoever. It's... disorienting, even years later.

[rhythmaction]

wait, not everyone was human before showing up here?!?!?!? that's so cool!!!!!!!

[ <-- this guy doesn't fucking know anything]

[sassymaru]

[... Is this a serious question.]

No, not all of us were. A great many of us were something else entirely.

[rhythmaction]

thats so cool.........

lame that you got turned into a human after :/ i bet its not as cool

[sassymaru]

I wouldn't say "lame". It's merely... different. In many ways.

[rhythmaction]

huh.........

[He doesn't seem to be getting through to Chai. But Chai is trying.]

are there things you can do as a human you couldn't do as...well, whatever you used to be?