AlcheME!

[idolpro]

[ You stand in the middle of a mad scientist's laboratory. ]

Comments

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[threatmewted]

I have no idea how to answer this one.

Re: DISCUSSION

[featherbeaned]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Hm.

Re: DISCUSSION

[doublefried]

Sure?

Re: DISCUSSION

[featherbeaned]

Why not!

Personhood for everyone.

Re: DISCUSSION

[threatmewted]

Okay, so it's human. That just leaves the question of what is a human.

Re: DISCUSSION

[featherbeaned]

I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer that one, seeing as I'm not.

Re: DISCUSSION

[threatmewted]

Can you think of anything that sets humans apart from dragons? ...Besides like, literally not being dragons.

Re: DISCUSSION

[doublefried]

Featherless bipeds.

Re: DISCUSSION

[threatmewted]

What.

Re: DISCUSSION

[featherbeaned]

[ her ears perk ]

He's not wrong.

Re: DISCUSSION

[threatmewted]

Soooo that means I'm the only human here?

Re: DISCUSSION

[featherbeaned]

Naw, W's a human too.

Biggest thing I can think of is ... like, a dragon's way of experiencing the world is totally different from a human's.

Re: DISCUSSION

[threatmewted]

Oh yeah? How so?

Re: DISCUSSION

[featherbeaned]

It's … hard to explain.

Back home, for me … I can sense the magic that weaves everything together. Light, life, creation, space, time, darkness, void, the elements. All that stuff and more, all the time.

Re: DISCUSSION

[threatmewted]

Oh. Yeah, that's not really a human thing, huh? Or at least, not in my world.

Re: DISCUSSION

[doublefried]

So like, it's our experiences and way of relating to others that makes us human or not human?

Re: DISCUSSION

[featherbeaned]

I ... think so? Maybe? It's part of it, at least.

Re: DISCUSSION

[doublefried]

Way of relating to others and the world, maybe...

Re: DISCUSSION

[featherbeaned]

And yourself, yeah.

Re: DISCUSSION

[doublefried]

Yeah. So a 'human' is less a static state and more a process. Just like 'dragon' or 'bird' aren't static states? So what a human is is... someone experiencing that process...?

Re: DISCUSSION

[threatmewted]

That sounds better than anything I can think of.

Re: DISCUSSION

[doublefried]

We gotta be philosophical about it because we made this guy just a soul and an attitude, after all.

Re: DISCUSSION

[threatmewted]

Yeeeah, something tells me I'm not so great at that kind of thing.

Re: DISCUSSION

[doublefried]

I think famously. Nobody is.