UN: GreenDolphin

[strings_theory]

Real talk:

Does anyone here not have some kind of fucking childhood trauma bullshit? Goddamn, this is fucking pathetic to watch.

[YOU ARE LITERALLY ONE OF THEM, JOLYNE...]

Also, anyone that's got some anatomy knowledge, I have a quick question: how long does it generally take for someone to bleed out from a minor wound? Enough to need stitches but not enough to require surgery otherwise. Asking for my own curious brain, I swear to fuck I haven't done anything to warrant this question. Just idle weird thoughts.

Okay, actually, one more question. Skin grows back, doesn't it??????

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[strings_theory]

I wouldn't have expected you to have a normal childhood, but here are, I fuckin' guess.

Can someone literally just be a human blob of flesh with no skin, that's what I really need to know. What is the answer.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

I suppose not, but I believe you would have liked my mother. She was very much like you - though much less vulgar, of course.

[Mrs. Moriarty was SOMETHING, alright.]

And...Yes, if it was done over time. Of course, it's more than possible to reduce a human to little more than a torso with no way to see or hear the outside world as long as the brain is still functioning - such things genuinely happened during the world wars, after all.

[OH BOY IS IT MORBID FACT CORNER TIME.]

[strings_theory]

Thanks, I get that shit from my mom or w/e.

Wait.

Waitwaitwait.

That actually fucking happened?

[Unfortunately this is Jolyne so of course she's not all that bothered and more intrigued than anything else.]

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Most cases ended up not living that long, but yes. There was a - fictional, mind you - book called Johnny Got His Gun that was told from the perspective of a dying soldier in those conditions - a gripping read, at the very least4, and inspired by news articles of grievous wounds in the wars.

However, that sort of condition is an extreme one. More common is the loss of being able to make involuntary muscle movements - the so called 'locked-in' syndrome.

[He's always up for teaching, man!]

[strings_theory]

So still technically talking fiction here? God, you got my hopes up for a moment there. Booooo.

Locked-in syndrome? See, this is the kinda shit they don't teach in schools. Or at least not the ones I went to. This shit is far more interesting than what they were going on about.

[Like history. History's dumb.]

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Technically - though to be honest, plenty of torture techniques are even more horrifying to think of. The Human body and mind can adapt to many things, you see...endless pain, and endless torment.

[He's grinning as he stares down at his phone at that last bit.]

A little self-study never hurt anyone - there are all sorts of interesting conditions, like being unable to register your hand as your own - Alien Hand Syndrome. Or seeing someone who is a loved one as a stranger or imposter - Capgras syndrome, though that goes much more in hand with Dementia. However, both syndromes can be developed with the 'right' kind of brain trauma, you see.

[strings_theory]

Torture techniques... like shit from the medieval era?

[She's far too curious about shit for her own good, obviously. And is absolutely writing down these things to read about later.]

That's... because the human brain is really kinda fragile, right? Like, it's pretty much a ductape monstrosity that somehow works until something comes along to jostle it?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Yes - and the ones used against witches could be very inventive, if nothing else. The 'bronze bull' is one that's practically a masterwork showing how easily humans can torture their fellows and make it a spectacle in the bargain.

And yes - it is quite fragile. Speaking from experience, it's quite easy to have trauma fracture the conscious mind into an utterly destroyed state.