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[cactusy]

[If I don't have an active post up, feel free to use this post to have your character call, videochat, text, or knock on Shaw's door.]

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[cactusy]

"I can feel anger pretty well, actually," Shaw remarks. "But I have no idea how to describe it. It's... tight."

[chaos_drifter]

It seems like something stronger than what they can feel, but so had grief. “Do you know why it comes easily to you?”

[cactusy]

"No. It can't just be because it's negative; I don't feel things like hate in the same way."

She pauses, thinks - and then asks them a question that she very likely wouldn't ask anyone else.

"You got any theories?"

[chaos_drifter]

They study her orb for a few more seconds, then hand it back to her. “Curiosity always came easily to me. It used to feel like a state of being rather than an emotion, but it helped me feel like I had a purpose.” It was part of what drove them to want a purpose at all. “I had trouble wanting to connect with people, so I wanted to know things about them instead. Curiosity was my mind’s way of replacing connection. Anger could be your mind’s way of replacing another emotion.”

[cactusy]

"Passion," she supplies, though without any strong conviction; it's just a guess. It's the first thing that comes to mind, though, and it does so easily, like a puzzle piece fitting into place.

[chaos_drifter]

“Does your cheat sheet have passion on it?” They have no idea if the cheat sheets are meant to be a representation of what they can feel, but Shaw seemed to think of it that way.

[cactusy]

"Nope," she says, popping the p. "So maybe that's a bust. But it's the closest one-to-one I can think of."

[chaos_drifter]

“Maybe,” they say. “The cheat sheet might not be a representation of everything you can feel, though. When mine changed, I think it was to add nuance, not because I was able to feel new emotions. Yours could be missing some nuance.” They might have never seen hers, but that was what theirs had done.