Announcing Hypocognition

[runs]

So me and Armin were poking around Psychic abilities the other day, and we found a way to suppress emotions for a limited amount of time.

It works on all kinds emotions, including uncontrollable or distorted ones. [Like Hinamizawa Syndrome or panic attacks, but that's personal and thus restricted information.] So it can be really good for avoiding doing something you wouldn't want to do when not emotional.

If anyone wants to learn, I can teach it. It helps if you know how to restrict psychic traffic and access.

Comments

[thornsofmalkav]

... wow. Huh. That's a very Armin skill to figure out, I guess.

[WORRYINGLY SO ACTUALLY. Because holy shit, Armin already sticks inconvenient parts of himself behind mind partitions and turning off emotions is. Okay, she does see how it can be useful to him or anybody, especially with Hinamizawa. But it's a slippery damn slope.]

So it's on a fixed time limit?

[PLEASE DON'T LET ARMIN HAVE FOUND A WAY TO REMOVE HIS EMOTIONS INDEFINITELY.]

[runs]

Well, technically I figured it out and he helped. [She sniffs in indignation. Sure, she gets why she'd think that Armin figured it out, he is an expert in the area of psychic skills (which is, after all, why she originally approached him). But she's still offended.]

You can end it any time. But it runs out automatically after a while, too. About quarter of an hour when I do it and much longer time when Armin does it.

[thornsofmalkav]

Ohhhhh. That makes sense. [Armin's the kind of guy who finds out new skills accidentally rather that intentionally going looking for how to do the thing--or, well, that's her experience of him, given that they first met because he oopsed his way into Memory Immersion. So Kitty being the driving force for the skill discovery definitely makes sense to her.] Sorry.

And yeah, he would do it longer. There are other people here who're also really clever at psychic stuff, but Armin has more raw psychic power than, like, everybody. So, uh, don't feel bad that he can do it so long? He's an outlier that way. [Spiders Armin.]

[Private, psychic protection ii]

[neverfeltthatway]

I was having an attack. She... she helped. We were able to hold it off until I could get my medication.

[runs]

Of course he is.

That's why he's cool.

Re: [Private, psychic protection ii]

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh my god. Shit.

... are you okay now? Or, um, better?

[thornsofmalkav]

You think he's cool, huh?

[runs]

Of course he is.

[That's just fact.]

[thornsofmalkav]

[Thorne is going to tease Armin so much about having a tiny fangirl when she's sure he's feeling okay.]

Super cool or just normal cool?

[Private, psychic protection ii]

[neverfeltthatway]

...Better.

I mean, I, um. I don't think I'm going to be leaving my room again today. But as long as I can just stay here... I think I'm okay.

Re: [Private, psychic protection ii]

[thornsofmalkav]

Okay. Do you need someone to bring you something to eat later so you don't go hungry? Because I can do that. I can leave it outside your door and knock if you're not up for me bringing it to you in person.

[Private, psychic protection ii]

[neverfeltthatway]

I can always get Eren to make me something. But if you want to... I won't object. And I...

[He bites his lip, terribly uncertain.]

You could come in, if you want.

Re: [Private, psychic protection ii]

[thornsofmalkav]

I think I might? Would a corned beef sandwich, an apple, and some lemon pound cake work for you?

And maybe I will, just for a little bit.

[Just so she can see that he's okay face to face.]

[Private, psychic protection ii]

[neverfeltthatway]

That... that would be okay. Th-thank you, jiejie.

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[thornsofmalkav]

No problem, kiddo.

[She'll be there in a little bit, when she figures it's closer to meal time.]

[runs]

[Is she being made fun of. She squints at this.]

Well, cooler than you. Or most other people here.

[Private x2]

Except for Beatrice. They're about the same amount of cool.

Private x2

[thornsofmalkav]

Nope. Beatrice is cooler than everyone. Armin can't compare.

Private x2

[runs]

Yes, he can. They just have different specialities.

[Action]

[neverfeltthatway]

[He doesn't really have any particular meal time, mostly just eating whenever someone else makes food.

Armin is in girlform when Thorne arrives, curled up on the bed and reading TS Eliot - The Waste Land, specifically, probably at her recommendation.]

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[thornsofmalkav]

[It's actually probably been a while since she recommended it... but yeah, she totally would have.]

Hey, I brought your food.

[One corned beef sandwich, one apple, and one slice of lemon pound cake coming up. She's got a tray and everything. There's cool water too in a little pitcher.]

[Action]

[neverfeltthatway]

[She looks up in mild surprise when Thorne enters, having been absorbed enough in her reading that she wasn't expecting anyone. It's only a second before that gives way to a gentle smile, though, and she sets her book aside.]

Oh! I - Thank you, Jiejie. [She takes the tray, setting it on her bedside table before looking back up at her onetime sister and hesitantly gesturing at the bed.] Would you... would you like to stay for a little while?

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[thornsofmalkav]

[It takes a moment to respond.] Sure. [The answer comes easier with Armin as Girlmin, somehow. It's less weird to be around Armin this way. Thorne... has a few suspicions as to why, but she's not going to dwell on them for now.

Anyway, she'll find somewhere to sit and summon a piece of pound cake for herself.]

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[neverfeltthatway]

I... I like the poetry. [She offers it shyly, never certain around Charlene anymore, and not used to discussing literary things.] Although I think... parts of it can be more literal for a Traveler than the author probably intended.

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[thornsofmalkav]

[That startles a soft laugh out of her.] Yeah, probably not.

I'm glad you like the poetry, though. I know you're not really into fiction, so I wasn't sure if poetry would be the same way--I mean, Min read it for Ling, but never really got it, plus you're not him anymore--but I figured that the Elliot might be a good one to try? Just because we had that Liminal Space that referenced his stuff, so even if it wasn't too your taste you could play Spot The Reference.

Still, there's all kinds of poetry. So if you like this we can figure out where to go next. I kinda think it's good to have some stuff you read for fun and to relax your brain and not just to learn from--although sometimes you end up learning something by accident.

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[neverfeltthatway]

I'd like that. Although, I... I really have no idea how to even start with that. I'm not really sure I've ever read poetry before, except as Min. And like you said, he didn't really get it. Even though he, he read a lot of it, those years they were apart.

I'm not sure there really was any, back home. Definitely none that I ever saw, anyway. [But then, knowledge was suppressed - and Armin could never have afforded any books anyway.]

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[thornsofmalkav]

Mm. Well, what do you like about the T.S. Elliot? That might help me figure out what next to recommend.

And-- even if there wasn't formal literature where you come from, there must have been stories. People always tell stories. It's just how people are. And songs. Maybe there's no orchestras or bands or musical instruments, but people still end up making up marching or working chants.

And in a lot of ways, poetry is song without music.