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Greetings.

[ As is usual for Data, his message is simultaneously sent in both video and text formats. ]

There has been a weeding recently and in one week is an event known as "Saint Valentine's Day", a holiday associated with romantic love. It is an occasion in which lovers express their love for each other in a special manner, most often depending on their culture and past.

But what is love? How would you define that feeling? I have been told about love before, but it is a most... complicated emotion and no explanation I have heard truly conveyed an understanding of the feeling.

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Love is a stupid feeling that makes you throw all logic out the window in favor of finding new ways to get close to someone who probably doesn't care all that much about you in the first place. The holiday is a dumb excuse to sell a bunch of pink and red crap, and lets couples pretend like they've done something romantic when they present their lover with some dime-a-dozen stuffed animal and a bouquet of half-wilted flowers.

[Mello savagely takes a bite out of his chocolate bar.]

Plus, all the chocolate is overpriced, and it tastes like shit.

[Someone's a little bit touchy today.]

[Mello doesn't respond, but it's nice to see that someone else agrees with him.]

Edited 2013-02-07 03:04 (UTC)

This is a most intriguing definition.

[ He is sincere, truly. ]

I was aware emotions are opposed to logic, but love is the one emotion that is most opposite to logic according to what you say. That would mean love is the ultimate expression of emotion. That is fascinating.

Furthermore, where I come from money does not exist, yet this is a widely celebrated holiday. I am afraid your evaluation of the commercial aspect is... exaggerated, to say the least.

However I am curious, why do you depict the emotion in such a negative light, in contrast with the other replies? Why do you say the loved one does not care much in the first place?

[Oh my god, he's like one of those robots from cartoons, this is the literal worst. Mello's irritation bleeds over into his typing (even moreso than it did before).]

Okay. You obviously don't know much about emotions, so let me break it down for you, nice and slow.

Love leaves you feeling like you can't live without this other person. You spend all your time trying to impress them, you want them to notice you, and they make your heart go pitter-patter like you've just run a damn Olympic track race, I dunno.

So you get attached to this one person, right? They're your world. You'd do anything for them. Now, in a perfect world, this person would care about you right back, and you'd live out your lives happy and healthy and all that other fantasy bullshit. But this world isn't perfect, and things don't work out like that.

If the one you love doesn't love you back, or loves someone else, or breaks up with you, what then? What if they play you for a fool, use your emotions to get what they want? How do you think you'd feel? There are a million different things your "special someone" can do that'll leave you feeling like your world is ending, and then you realize just how much time you devoted to this person, and you think about all the stupid crap you've said, and it gets even worse.

You can never win. You're either pining after someone so badly that you lose touch with yourself, or you get crushed so hard that it destroys you. So yeah, I guess love is the "ultimate expression of emotion."

That just doesn't make it a good thing.

[Tl;dr emotions are stupid, especially because he has so many of them. He doesn't even love anyone - at least, not in the romantic sense, and even plutonic love is something he tries not to think about - but he still has a lot of strong feelings on the topic.]

I see. Love can indeed be a very painful emotion, this is an observation many share with you. Intriguing how this feeling can give birth to so many others.

However, your reasoning is that, loves is dangerous because there is a part of uncertainty about the loved being. Yet the same can be said about friendship, and any other thing. Everything we do comports a part of risk.

This is not love, this is life. I have once been told that this is by learning how to deal with new and painful situations that one can evolve.

[ Sorry Mello, that android has been contaminated by everyone else already. But he has one small question... ]

However I am curious. The way you worded this implies you have experienced it by yourself. May I ask how it went?

[Mello's face flushes hot with a mix of anger and embarrassment at the implication that he's been in love with someone before. Obviously that's not the case, but in a non-romantic sense... Well. He can't say that he loved L (and the very thought makes him wrinkle his nose); he only ever met him once, and his feelings for L were more hero worship than anything.

Even so, he still remembers the shock, the pain, the absolute devastation he felt upon learning that L had died. Even though it was years ago, the memory of that day is as fresh in his mind as if it had happened yesterday. And that rush of emotion had lead him to pretty much hand L's title over to Near on a silver platter, because he knew there was no way Near would let that raw emotion get to him.

All of that, and it wasn't even love. He can only imagine what it'd feel like if he ever falls in love with someone, but that's another thought that makes him cringe.]

It wasn't love, but emotions haven't done me any good before. I've seen tons of idiotic people throw away their lives for love, so I can't say I'm too eager to find out what it's like.

[EMOTIONS ARE JUST REALLY, REALLY STUPID, OKAY.]

I see. I find it ironic that the lack of emotion I have by design is what you are trying to accomplish, whereas you have emotions I wish to feel someday.

[ Data disagrees okay. If you don't like your emotions, give them to him he'll know to appreciate them. ]

[If Mello's mood wasn't bad before, it is now. That's just what he needs, more people to rub it in his face about how much less emotional they are. And thinking about emotions just makes him more emotional, which grates on his nerves, and god damn it why does this always happen to him.

He tries to quiet his anger by convincing himself that it's a necessary thing, feeling so strongly. Sure, he may never be able to act with all the cool nonchalance that Near secretes from every pore of his stupid body, but his emotions drive him to get things done.

The chocolate that he's nibbling on helps him to think straight, too.]

Emotions that you "wish" to feel? What's stopping you now? Wait, don't tell me - you're a literal robot, right? Some sort of clone, or android? Wouldn't surprise me any.

[He's so fed up with all the different people here, aliens and shapeshifters and mutants. In different circumstances, he might be intrigued, but being trapped for a month in a shitty tower has put a damper on his mood (to put things lightly).]

That is correct. I am an android, an artificial lifeform.

[ Sorry Mello, believe Data when he says he'd like to trade his lack of emotion for your emotions. But hey, c'est la vie. ]

That's great. Loving all the sci-fi in this place.

[Can you sense his sarcasm, Data?]

Trust me when I say that you're better off the way you are. Life is bound to be easier without emotions getting in your way.

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