Monster - 2016 version - Ch 1-3/29
-"The Lonly Emotion"-
-What would happen if we felt nothing? Feeding off others' emotions just to know what it means to feel? Just to know what it means to live? Would you be willing to risk it? Then what would happen if a creature came to you promising emotion? Would you trust it?-
Annie was 10 when she realized how different she was. She had no emotions. It would've upset her, that is, if she could be upset. Although pretending to have a normal life, Annie went to school like all other normal people. Annie had a hard time coping. What made it hard was that she was always surrounded by other emotions, and she fed off emotions to feel. However, she could not control which emotion she felt. Of course, that didn't help one bit.
And that's all she wanted to do, to feel. Feel real emotions and not just others'. She just didn't know how. She didn't want to live in stress of searching for one single emotion. Then with nothing else to do, she taught herself how to pretend. Pretend she had emotion, pretend she was...
-What would happen if we felt nothing? Feeding off others' emotions just to know what it means to feel? Just to know what it means to live? Would you be willing to risk it? Then what would happen if a creature came to you promising emotion? Would you trust it?-
Annie was 10 when she realized how different she was. She had no emotions. It would've upset her, that is, if she could be upset. Although pretending to have a normal life, Annie went to school like all other normal people. Annie had a hard time coping. What made it hard was that she was always surrounded by other emotions, and she fed off emotions to feel. However, she could not control which emotion she felt. Of course, that didn't help one bit.
And that's all she wanted to do, to feel. Feel real emotions and not just others'. She just didn't know how. She didn't want to live in stress of searching for one single emotion. Then with nothing else to do, she taught herself how to pretend. Pretend she had emotion, pretend she was...