Chapter Nineteen Page 15
Nov10
Dammit, Cohen, you really need to mellow out. Go take a spa day or something. Get a massage.
(For those of you keeping score at home, Ilsa is the Wolf.)
Cohen: No . . . Injuries never heal that fast, do they.
And Ilsa doesn’t play the Game on easy mode. You did a good job. Sit.
What I don’t understand is why you get injured at all. You’re made of dirt. And you were probably made specifically to fight battles that are too dangerous for humans! So why on earth would you be designed to bruise like one? It doesn’t make any goddamn sense . . .
Whoever’s hands originally tried to shape you were either sadistic . . . or incompetent.
You’re such a good boy, and you work so hard . . .
(GASP)
Cohen: . . . but you’re broken. Someone needs to fix you.
Ngh… Phrasing, Cohen!
Oh Cohen.
Things an intelligent fog never wants to hear…
Of course, Cohen may have the wrong idea, about Beings being intended for fighting…
*Dog
and when will I learn not to comment before my first cup of coffee… X(
Guys, Cohen grabbed Patrick’s hair in his fist. That’s the trigger for Patrick’s gasp. So it ain’t phrasing–Patrick knows Cohen’s upset.
So … wait … does it mean Cohen didn’t do it deliberately but make a mistake when trying to do something else?
Makes one wonder if they were actually designed to fight…the Donkey sure didn’t seem like he was. After all that story-arc implied the magic in question wasn’t centered around the Beings like the modern characters think it is, but rather they are simply one product of it…which makes you wonder what other sorts of magical thinking entities can be created if the “Beings” are Golems…like say Homunculi (distinct from Golems), or summoning elementals. It brings into question what that world is they go to during those fights.
My headcanon:
Beings have to feel pain and understand injury and healing because they have to deal with humans who have no choice.
Yesno?
Pain is a necessary mechanism for us to understand injury and condition us to avoid it. There is a condition that makes you unable to feel pain and those people are often short-lived and in severe danger because they have injuries they don’t feel and can’t tell if there is something wrong with them.
The real question is, why does it take so long for a Being to regenerate? Especially in view that they can shapeshift. Why not just shapeshift your mayor injuries away?