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boldandresolute

[nineteenth bullet] Text to Johto at large (filtered poorly from Otacon)

Mar 08, 2011 10:26

How do you know if you're in love?

!liquid, metal gear's other favorite pastime, let us contemplate our navels, roger wilco, in which liquid proves he has a soul

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[text] boldandresolute March 8 2011, 18:39:33 UTC

I see. I realize that the question is... complicated.

[Text] foolishwren March 8 2011, 16:51:11 UTC

Balloons and ticker tape fall everywhere and then someone drapes a sash around your shoulders that says 'LOVERBOY'.

no but seriously, it's too complicated for a simple answer.

Re: [Text] boldandresolute March 8 2011, 16:57:41 UTC

Then give me the complicated one.

[Text] foolishwren March 8 2011, 17:03:21 UTC

[... Liquid you're asking an eighteen-year-old who's never actually been in a serious relationship to describe romantic love. WHERE DID YOU START THINKING THAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA.]

... I dunno

Do you get butterflies in your stomach?

[Text] boldandresolute March 8 2011, 18:43:29 UTC

[And he's a twenty-one year old who's never been in a serious relationship before. They're in the same boat, bro.]

What do butterflies have to do with anything?

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[text] restardom March 8 2011, 19:21:26 UTC

you feel bad about telling the whole network that you slept w/your bf.

[text] boldandresolute March 8 2011, 20:33:54 UTC

I made it up to him.

[text] restardom March 8 2011, 20:37:32 UTC

[ SO not going to ask how. ]

and now you want to know if youre in love?

[text] boldandresolute March 8 2011, 21:00:30 UTC

I want to know how someone might tell if what they experience is love.

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[text] blacklodged March 8 2011, 19:43:49 UTC

Love is overwhelming and powerful. If you don't know that you are in love, you most likely are not.

[text] boldandresolute March 8 2011, 20:47:57 UTC

[Liquid's emotions were usually powerful-- he was something of a passionate man. Telling him that love was powerful still didn't tell him what it was.]

What do you mean? Explain it as you would to someone who has had no experience with the emotion before.

[text] blacklodged March 8 2011, 21:07:40 UTC

[To be fair, it's not exactly easy to describe. This reply comes some time later, clearly with thought and feeling behind it:]

It's devotion and adoration. Wanting to devote things, moments, thoughts and gestures to the other and adoration in the sense of finding the other perfect for everything they are, not despite it.
Being in love is also physical. Feeling nervous, tingling sensations, your heart speeding up and yourself flushed in their presence are common symptoms of being in love.
It goes deeper in a way that is very difficult to explain. Additionally, you might not know that you have had love until it is lost.

[text] boldandresolute March 9 2011, 00:08:05 UTC

You sound like you've gone through this before.

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[Video] in_themachine March 8 2011, 19:53:26 UTC

[He got Fransiska to read this for him, but since he doesn't know how to write, he's going to answer in video.]

Erm...wouldn't you know? I mean, love is rather different from hate, so I don't think it would be hard to tell.

[Sissel fails at everything love-related ever. ._.]

[text] boldandresolute March 8 2011, 20:51:57 UTC

I know of hate very well, but I know nothing of love. How do I tell the difference, say, between caring for someone and loving them? What is the distinction?

[So does Liquid, man. If he didn't fail at all love-related things, he wouldn't be asking the whole network HOW DOES I EMOTE.]

[Video] in_themachine March 10 2011, 17:03:05 UTC

[Another pause as Fransiska reads it for him.]

Well...I would think love is stronger than just caring for someone. Like, you would save their life if they were ever in danger and not be concerned whether you get killed in the process.

[That's what the dog he knew did for his owner.]

[text] boldandresolute March 12 2011, 17:16:17 UTC

It sounds like love is a very foolish thing to have.