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WCDT Strips 3966-3970 (25th-29th March, 2019)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Tyr on 25 Mar 2019, 10:51 ---I just had the image of Roko making a deliberate scar on the dermal. Self-harm done in a mirror to FORCE her mind to recognize this as her face.
"That's my scar on my face. It's Mine."
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My worry would be that Roko wouldn't stop with just one scar.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Wired on 24 Mar 2019, 22:31 ---After reading the last week's thread, with all it's guesses... Just wanted to stop by and say I'm 99% certain what Jeph is trying to convey is that Roko is going through a kind of dissociation. The umbrella of dissociation is quite wide; and even fits 'regular' ol' PTSD under it(though this was already covered via Bubbles). She doesn't feel integrated with her body. She is depersonalized. (comic=3914, 3919, 3948, 3952, 3953, 3960, 3965, 3966). Now it's not certain if Robots in this universe are able to experience this, so I'll hang on to my hat - but I wanted to say I deeply appreciate the route this is seemingly taking.
If this is right - Dissociation is one of the most 'weird' and undiscussed mental illnesses and I'm glad someone, somewhere is tackling it and especially someone with reach. I have a strong desire to see how this plays out. Thank you, Jeph.
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Welcome, new person!
One of the most undiscussed, and also one of the sneakiest. When you're motionless on top of a pile of laundry for a week it's easy to figure out you're depressed. When you don't know you've done something, you don't know that there's an issue.
BlueAmaranth:
Roko referring to her new chassis's face as "this face" instead of "my face" reminds me a bit of something that can happen in humans after brain trauma, where the patient is convinced that a body part doesn't belong to them. They might, for example, be convinced that there's someone else's leg in their bed with them and try to push it out of the bed. Similarly there are humans who understand that the offending limb is attached to their body, but feel profoundly that it's "wrong" for that limb to be there and will avidly pursue amputation.
Cheetaur:
Poor Roko, she gets crushed now she cannot see herself behind what she thinks is a mask. :(
Rincewind:
Instead of a scar to mark the new face as her own, maybe she could be persuaded to try a piercing, like Claire's perhaps. She might find talking to Claire helpful, as one commenter mentioned earlier.
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