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I see. Thanks for your inputs

Not a problem. ^_^

Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on Feb 14th 2023 at 6:35:11 PM

A bit of an ugly question perhaps, but here goes.

Does the following make sense or is it just stupid? In my WIP's backstory, there are two characters, a mother and daughter. The mother is a human and her daughter...isn't. One of the many abuses the mother character hurls at her daughter is calling her a "monster" and making it very clear she is disturbed and disgusted by her existence.

What makes me wonder if this is stupid is that her husband also wasn't human, and the wife knew this when they met and when they married. She knew her daughter would likely also be a supernatural being just like him. She had no issues with him and what he was.

So I'm worried it just comes off as ridiculous when it is supposed to be just cruel.

Did something happen between the mother and the father before that?

Edited by Nukeli on Feb 14th 2023 at 10:48:16 PM

@ Nukeli:

The father died unexpectedly in a factory accident before the daughter was born. It left his wife widowed and alone to raise a child who shows visible signs of being a supernatural creature. The father demonstrated some of his true nature when they were together and he obviously told her about himself, but he always made sure she saw a very "sanitized" version of his true nature. The daughter is much less controlled and has no "practice" at pretending to be a human since she is just a child.

Edited by Swordofknowledge on Feb 14th 2023 at 2:18:45 PM

How might Mechanical Lifeform robots test if a human-created robot who gained self-awareness is actually sapient?

The robot himself is heavily doubting his sapience and personhood.

Edited by Nukeli on Feb 14th 2023 at 9:41:56 PM

Sapience is largely unprovable and mostly arbitrary. It's a polite assumption that everyone else isn't a philosophical zombie.

I'm sure the robot having an existential crisis would not be comforted by that but it's not like there is a test that could be designed that could not run into the problem that sapience isn't really well defined.

If the robots come up with a concrete idea of what counts, they can just check the code for evidence of whatever they've decided the bar is being coded for and useable though.

He was never meant to be sapient, it.... just kind of happened accidentally. Also the humans had built him partially from the robot species remains and had used him as a remote-controlled mecha to fight the robot species, so he's kind of a Frankenstein's monster too. Also it's kind of complicatd, but the robot species doesn't have code.

Edited by Nukeli on Feb 15th 2023 at 1:42:02 PM

Does anyone have any other thoughts on my question?

okay then there's no test that can verify anything if there's no code, (mechanical or otherwise) to look through.

He propably has code, but that propably won't help?

So I came up with a story where Ragnarok fucked up things so badly that with the exception of the Hindu and Shinto pantheons, there's only a single goddess per mythological pantheon left and they got severely and permanently weakened by the ordeal. In order to regain their power, they run a tournament where they summon female historical figures to fight on their behalf and the winner grants her representative goddess power.

While I have an out-universe reason for why they're exclusively female (I like women), I need a plausible, hopefully non-sexist, reason on why the goddesses decide to only use ladies in-universe. So far I got is that since this read as ladies' business so much that it felt awkward to use men to fight on their behalf.

You don't need a reason, if anyone questions it too much that's their issue.

How should i omatopeia that "urrr" noise dogs sometimes make when they stretch? What actual word should be used to refer to it?

Edited by Nukeli on Feb 16th 2023 at 10:26:07 PM

Maybe I might've misunderstood what you're trying to ask but you already wrote the omatopeia

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Feb 18th 2023 at 12:22:22 PM

Does that do it in english?

Other animal noise omatopeia are all different between my native language and english ("woof" vs "hau" or "vuh" for example), so i assumed that'd also be something else for english-speakers. Also the vocalization is called urina/urahdus in my language, but Google Translate translates it as "growl" which it isn't (and "growl" carries the wrong connotations).

Maybe a groan? I'd use the same word to describe the sound a human might make when they stretch their back.

Does anyone know how long blood can be stored for? One of my characters is a vampire and finds herself in a situation where the symptoms of her terminal illness can only be held off by consuming the blood of a certain person. This character later goes AWOL on a mission of his own, which means she loses access to his blood for a while until they are reunited.

I wanted to know how long she could survive with stored samples of his blood until they reconnect.

Search: "blood donation shelf life":

Source

Edited by Nukeli on Feb 20th 2023 at 5:37:31 PM

@ Nukeli:

Ah, thank you. That was helpful.

What WWII-era motorcycle should The Lightbearer's motorcycle be?

Edited by Nukeli on Feb 21st 2023 at 12:25:34 PM

Also for Red Revenge, one of the minor characters is a german vampire who ran off into the forest to live as a wolf to escape conscription.

He'd gotten turned into a vampire somewhere before WWI, maybe in the 1800s, spent the unclear amount of time between that and late WWI under Kyrilu's mental control, until a british spy kills Kyrilu late in the war which basically frees the vampires. After that our man tries to live a normal life and marries, though he worries about being discovered or his wife inevitably noticing he doesn't age. Then the nazis come to power and start WWII where they try to draft him. He either dissappears then, or goes along because he's afraid of them hurting his wife but dissappears shortly later.

Later a superpowered resistance group, which includes a vampire and an unrelated dhampir, hear about a weird wolf and suspect it to be a vampire. So they go looking for it, and the wife who still doesn't know he's a vampire becomes somehow involved.

So basically this is 2 questions;

• How could our man try to indicate his identity to his wife when they meet while he's stuck in wolf form (vampires can only change form during the night or midday exactly)?
• What kind of issues with being human might our man have after living for up to a few years as a wolf in the wilderness and barely turning human at all during that time, like trouble with walking on two legs?

1. Maybe some gestures he could try that could let her know that it's him.

2. That, as well as eating with a knife and fork when needed, taking bath properly, etc.

What are the possible answers to the following riddle?

Most I can get is "a mirror".

... A politician...? ^^;