Oh, dear God please don't make him go into the making children aspect of it all, because he can already feel the heat across his cheeks at the thought of trying to explain that, and he rubs across his jaw with his hand to try and disguise the fact.
"Y-yes, um. Ideally, your partner - er, a boyfriend, girlfriend, wife or, or husband or what have you - they should be someone you like. Someone you'd consider a friend or a good companion even if you weren't in love with them. People often..."
He hums as he considers how to word it.
"Often when you have a shared experience with someone, it can help foster that- intensity of feeling, and start a positive relationship. John and I aren't romantic, for example, but the events we have been through together have helped us forge a- a strong companionship. A lot of people here find breaches and floods to be perpetrators of... similiar levels of emotions. And despite knowing these aren't happening to us, the fact we get to experience these lives for some time, to see things literally through their eyes, to feel their love and friendship - it can still leave us affected, and make us want to seek out that person's counterpart on the Barge to discuss these feelings."
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Date: 2023-08-23 05:09 am (UTC)"Y-yes, um. Ideally, your partner - er, a boyfriend, girlfriend, wife or, or husband or what have you - they should be someone you like. Someone you'd consider a friend or a good companion even if you weren't in love with them. People often..."
He hums as he considers how to word it.
"Often when you have a shared experience with someone, it can help foster that- intensity of feeling, and start a positive relationship. John and I aren't romantic, for example, but the events we have been through together have helped us forge a- a strong companionship. A lot of people here find breaches and floods to be perpetrators of... similiar levels of emotions. And despite knowing these aren't happening to us, the fact we get to experience these lives for some time, to see things literally through their eyes, to feel their love and friendship - it can still leave us affected, and make us want to seek out that person's counterpart on the Barge to discuss these feelings."