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⌈ Secret Post #5392 ⌋

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Re: Immortal romances

[(Anonymous)]

If the way that you think that immortality would affect human existence is that immortals would be uninterested in younger people, then it seems like they would also probably be bored by the perspectives of a 60 year old or an 80 year old, as well as a 16 year old or a 30 year old. After all, if you're 600 years old, the difference between a 25 year old and a 75 year old is going to be pretty immaterial. So if that's how you think immortality would play out, then the only "realistic" outcome would be that the immortal would be alienated and bored and uninterested in the lives of every mortal human being. And you can write those stories. But that angle closes off a lot of stories. There's only certain kinds of narratives you can have when that's your starting point, and it's very detached from most common genres.

So being mortal humans ourselves, we like to imagine that immortals would see the world in a comparable way to the way that we see it, and would form emotional attachments with mortals. And that also allows us to tell stories that are familiar and satisfying in human terms, instead of stories based on horror or cognitive estrangement. The problem is fundamentally that there's nothing we can really use to judge or understand the experience of being an immortal human. It's totally outside of human understanding, by definition. And I think this is a common theme between a lot of different speculative tropes - there's no guide in human experience that tells us what these situations would be like, and so we fall back on things that are familiar from our own experience even though they're unrealistic because they're familiar and because they allow us to tell stories that are related to our experiences and make sense in human terms. It's the same thing in superhero comics, for example.

Re: Immortal romances

[(Anonymous)]

Nobody ever really gets older than twenty-five, in their brains, and many people never get beyond fourteen in their head. That is the secret that pretty much every eighty year old tries to tell you when you are young. The only thing that changes is how much energy the old meat machine can pump out without breaking down (eventually, terminally). The boring part is not the mental discrepancy, it is the inability to physically keep up. For vampires, that is not really an issue.

Re: Immortal romances

[(Anonymous)]

Excellent comment! +1000000000