So if you were Statesman or Sister Psyche ...
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Posted on: 2010-02-22 18:38 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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No it's not. That's the best part about this thread.
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Originally Posted by Silverado
(I'd stay away from my own granddaughter though, cause that's just creepy)
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I know I'm a bit too heartless to be of any use in this thread, but yes, very much so. What's the point of eternal life if you never get to live it?
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Originally Posted by BlueBattler
Would you marry someone who aged normally?
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Originally Posted by Spazztastics
If i didn't age normaly and were highly resistant to normal damage i would probably be a villain
 Not a super villain just a thief. Wouldn't hurt anyone just steal things for the challenge and escape. |
But then you'd be like the Joker in the early 90s Batman:TAS cartoon when Batman "died"....Joker was bored because he could always beat the cops/whoever...he lived for the challenge of beating Batman.
If you're a person with Statesman-like powers, I'd think you'd get bored robbing banks since 'nothing' could stop you.
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If I was Sister Psyche.... I'd never leave the house. 
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Originally Posted by Scythus
This topic reminds me of that one song by Queen.
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Originally Posted by Basilisk
"Fat Bottomed Girls"?
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Originally Posted by Quinch
Another One Bites The Dust?
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I'll bet States and Shalice are each other's "backup" for when they hit 500.
BlueBattler wrote a piece of fiction about this very topic. "Survivors." A good read.
Even without immortality, people can have trouble finding reasons to live on. Love is a very good reason, even if, in the the long run, you know it's going to end.
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Yeah, this was exactly my thinking. I am working on this arc now . . .
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Originally Posted by BlueBattler
I don't know if she could or not. (Who would take care of her body for those months at a time when she was running around as someone else?)
And if she did, how heroic does that make her? Would it be very heroic of Shalice to fight crime in someone else's body, putting that body at risk while her own stays safe and sound? (Hm. That sort of gives me an idea for a dark fic/MA about Sister Psyche ...)  |
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Originally Posted by Johnny_Velocity
"Princes of the Universe?" It is a very Highlander-like question...
I'll bet States and Shalice are each other's "backup" for when they hit 500. |
"Who Wants To Live Forever?"
Interestingly, one of my characters is based of this exact concept. He can't age, and everytime he dies, he always come back to life. After watching everyone he ever loved waste away while he was cursed with continuing to live without them, he turned to a philosophy of nihilism, of the meaninglessness of life and existence. He would probably kill anyone who he started to have feelings for in fear of those feelings developing into something more.
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I dunno, I'd probably trade the ability to have relationships for immortality. There's just never enough time...
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Originally Posted by BlueBattler
Ah, but if you were having thousands of one-night stands with women you saved how could you be sure one of them WASN'T your daughter, granddaughter, or even great-granddaughter?
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Originally Posted by Scythus
This topic reminds me of that one song by Queen.
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Originally Posted by Morac_Ex_Machina
I dunno, I'd probably trade the ability to have relationships for immortality. There's just never enough time...
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If I were particularly long-lived, I would avoid marriage to anyone, regardless of how quickly they aged. Then again, if my life were normal length, I would avoid marriage to anyone, regardless of how quickly they aged. Really, love is only worthwhile for the first year or so, then it just becomes a huge pain that's just not worth the effort.
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Well played, madam, well played.
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Also, if I was Sister Psyche, I'd go straight to Croatoa/Pocket D and demand that War Witch revamp my TF too 
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Too....many.....jokes......
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Originally Posted by Primal
He'd upgrade to a full helmet first.
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There are folks here who didn't wait that long.|
Originally Posted by The Hound
Tyrant thinks otherwise.
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As for me, I'm still trying to find a woman that's not afraid of me as is. Somehow I can imagine I'd only get creepier after a couple hundred years.
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No such thing!
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Originally Posted by Calash
Too....many.....jokes......
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Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms
Somehow I can imagine I'd only get creepier after a couple hundred years.
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Plus I'm already bored after only 27 years, I think a couple hundred would drive me crazy.
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Originally Posted by BlueBattler
Would you marry someone who aged normally?
As far as we know, Marcus Cole hasn't been involved with anyone since his wife passed away-- and if The Freedom Phalanx novel was canon, that would be nearly 25 years ago. That's an awfully long time to be single. Shalice Tillman married a man who's probably 50 years younger than she is, who grew up in a world of differing expectations and societal mores. She lived through World War 2, Woodstock, the civil rights movement -- was Manticore even alive during Woodstock? Knowing you might have centuries ahead of you, would you risk falling in love with someone who'll grow old in what might seem like the blink of an eye to you? And if you did-- once you went through that-- could you do it again? If you were Statesman, would you marry again? |
You'll be the one doing that.
And if they get pissed about it, just disappear for a few decades until they either get over it or die.
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If i didn't age normaly and were highly resistant to normal damage i would probably be a villain
Not a super villain just a thief. Wouldn't hurt anyone just steal things for the challenge and escape.