Consider. A human wakes up in a strange medical bay, with an alien doctor standing over them. Turns out their shuttle crashed, and the alien ship only just managed to teleport the, on board in time.
By some miracle, the doctor explains, they escaped with only minor injuries. Some burns, a few scratches and “several small wounds. We’re not sure what caused them.”
“Wounds?”
“Small holes in your ear lobes. Possibly they were old wounds and unrelated to the accident, but either way, our doctors were able to heal them for you. There’s not even any scarring.”
The human pauses. Thinks for a minute. “Wait… you unpierced my ears?!”
“I… Suppose we did? Is that a problem?”
“Er, not exactly. It can be redone. though it’s not gonna be fun. But my people do that to ourselves on purpose. It’s self-ornamental… I don’t know the word. We decorate ourselves with small stones and bits of shaped metal or plastic.”
“Oh!! I’m sorry, that’s a fairly rare behavior among sapients. Why, if I may ask?”
“uh. It… Looks cool? I guess?”
“…My experience with humans is limited, but I gather that’s the reason for many of your behaviors.”
*from the next bay over comes the anguished scream of your co-pilot*
Me strokeing a cat as a snake is tied to a slab with a swinging pendulum blade: If you tell me where the fruit of knowledge is, you might just have a chance to live
Snake without moving: Is this truely how you wish to live? If you follow the path youve laid for yourself, you will be forgotten and fade to nothing more than dust
Me setting the pendulum to swing faster: GIVE ME THE FUCKING APPLE
silver-tongues-blog asked: hey chara have you ever, like, wanted to not be chara? like if you could just have a fresh start who would you be? what would you be like?
