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Nori is more of a "Splash" sort of mermaid

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Maggie Heels

I am sooo lost with this story LOOOL Can someone give me some highlights as condensed as possible where and when in the story we're currently in? Last thing I remember main character of this story Felix/Fiona was about to use physical girl body of his friend to use it to pretend to be a girl for a girl who he met virtually when he pretended to be a girl...

Disbet

I say FUCK YEAH 😍

Disbet

You remember right. However, as he shared a game session with her, the matter of properly "piloting" a girl body came about, and they decided Felix would need some training to do that. They borrowed Sophie's game engine to create some private training games. This is the game set up to train Felix (he plays the mermaid).

Maggie Heels

Ahhh, right, okay I feel I'm back on track thanks ❣️

solo

Laura there to protect her brother's innocence

solo

We have been in a flashback since #178

patroen usre

Just showing the truth that D****y hides from you.

Maggie Heels

Oh... this training to be able to walk and act feminine while "piloting" other AFAB body in a real world will do muuuch more to his brain than simple jumping into Fiona the virtual avatar... 😁🤭😎❣️❣️❣️

Senko

So because Nori is an endangered species she's not allowed to interact outside set environments? Is she in a wildlife sanctuary because unless they're doing something to her I can't see why singing would be an issue as she's an intelligent being able to make her own choices. Or because they chitter they're the first humans to realize mermaids aren't animals.

Senko

I'm not so sure. Put my mind in a female body and I'll feel some emotions a bit differently (wiring of her brain) but it'll be me in control. From what we've seen of the avatar system its actually overriding my thought process to be female based on other girls reactions. That is me in a girls body when I sit down I sit like a guy then maybe adjust my pose a bit to be more comfortable, me in the game I sit like a girl because that's what my "subconcious" says to do. Same with me around other people I might be interested in one of the guys (not touching the nature vs nurture beyond that) but me in avatar I am one hundred percent interested in guys because my brain say's "Ohh muscles, ohh nice hair, ohh chocolate." or at least going by frozen Chocolate is a nice distraction from other things. Basically female body is physical reactions on male mind, avatar body is physical reactions and overriden male mind to be female i.e. her bursting into tears at the break up and not being able to stop as the game said that was how a girl would react.

Maggie Heels

Oh... there was a complete misunderstanding here... what i had in mind was that what is doing this virtual thing to you is not permanent... it is temporary and not designed to implict permanent changes to your brain... while Felix by forcing his own mind to teach himself female mannerisms is fiddling with his own brain at lower level right? he will take of his band from his head an he still will have in mind all the mannerisms he learned... that is what i had in mind...

RobinHarper

I decided to follow movie logic for Nori's story, so I didn't put any effort into researching animal welfare laws, but the general idea is that mermaids in this story are simply considered intelligent animals like dolphins despite their ability to speak. Since she's "an exotic animal" I imagine that the band might need an animal handling license to use her as part of their performance.

solo

In the US at least, disturbing an endangered specues is not allowed unless you have a permit to do so, and disturbing is very broadly defined. a mermaid is obviously a little different as they can well decide on their own to go sing at a concert if they happen to feel like it, but I think your framing here is perfectly good - Laura should rightly should be concerned about what this might look like to the outsude world.

Senko

Fair enough though I disagree I think that its just how safe we view the device. You see it as safe and temporary with maybe some surface level adjustment. To me even if someone doesn't hack/abuse it I'm not so sure it wont have permanent effects if you use it long term. Learning to walk/talk like a girl embeds certain memories sure but their adult memories your fully aware of like learning how to play an instrument. The device makes those connections in your head at a subconcious level altering your very personality effectively jumping to the already learnt deep memory in a way that can even change your personality. That is if you select straight female like Felix did you aren't just acting the part you are a straight female as your mind just thinks that way. If your right and it is safe then yes the effects probably don't last beyond the game/program but if it isn't and your spending hours in a dream state with your mind thinking and reacting as a specific other character. Well I can see you picking up those patterns at a level your not even aware of since they're effectively childhood memories. The difference between "I sit with my legs together" and "Hmph boys . . . wait did I just get annoyed at him brushing me off?" Take the subliminal learning tapes people were meant to lesson to while asleep to learn a language or the like and dial them up to be able to make you dream night after night that you are a (to use one of Felix's choices) succubus, an aggressively sexual female who wants men. Will that really not influence your personality?

Maggie Heels

And again another misunderstanding... I was comparing what is happening when Felix learn his own brain female mannerisms to what and how device is described working in the universe... which next stripes are showing very precisely... so i am subjectively assuming that device is not malfunctioning and works as intended... if it is truly able to imply permanent changes to the user while used in long term then... we will see Fiona even sooner "IRL" than we think ;) I see it as win-win (sooner) situation 😁

solo

Isn't this one of the oveall main questions? In one of the very first strips, Felix questions what the impact is on a person I. Teak life- the actions in the game get improved need as real memories in the person. Meanwhile Craig, and now Jess, are if the opinion that it's all just harmless fun.