ITP: An old joke

[no_longer_a_king]

[Text; Anonymous]

What is love?

How do you know if you love someone? Is it really as powerful as they say?

(ooc: In before someone makes this joke. Feel free to threadjack and such in response to this.

Comments

text; anonymous

[hideandhero]

Let's make a long story short. When you look at someone and suddenly feel your heart racing, you're attracted. If you can't get that person off your mind, no matter what, you're moving into love territory.

This is where it gets difficult. If you can't let that person live their own life, you've become that creepy person everyone points at and makes fun of. If you're all the above but fine with the fact that the other person can do what they want, you're in love.

Text and anon for both until otherwise noted?

[no_longer_a_king]

But what if you hurt that person?

text; lol what is anon?

[ghostytrainer]

[Wow why did he decide to check the network? Oh right, he was checking to see if maybe Rose was back. Well she's not and this post is just making him feel all the worse about that.]

[And yet he can't resist adding his two cents.]

love is hard to describe, really. it's hard to find words that are really adequate.
the first person did a pretty good job of describing it though.
all i would add to that is that it's best when the feeling is mutual. loving somebody is great and all, and having somebody love you is pretty awesome too.
but when both parties love each other, THAT'S when you really have something.

and it's just something that you kind of...know? i'm sure that's a pretty shitty way of putting it that doesn't actually answer the question at all but it's just one of those things that you KNOW with all your heart.
and people fight wars over matters of love. so yes, i would say that it is every bit as powerful as people say.
but on a less drastic scale, it's probably one of the few things in this world that can make you insanely happy and utterly terrified at the same time. that's a force to be reckoned with, don't you think?

Anon; John couldn't be anon if he tried. XD

[no_longer_a_king]

What about if you aren't sure if you loved someone?

[Text]

[akito_sohma]

Yes. [Akito isn't even going to try to put love into words, but it's important that this person know that it is powerful.]

[Text; Anonymous]

[no_longer_a_king]

How so?

[Unfortunately, she wants the elaboration and she'll never admit to making this post.]

text; anonymous

[wegotlucky]

Yes.

Love is very powerful.

[Text; anonymous] < Assume for both until otherwise noted?

[no_longer_a_king]

What makes you think that?

text;

[white_knightin]

Love is powerful enough to turn friendship in to rivalry, and it can change things for the better or worse.

[Text; Anonymous]

[no_longer_a_king]

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Add this to the list of things to never tell Gawain ever. She'd skip this over to avoid how awkward it would be--and, oh, it's awkward enough to make this post--but if she did so it might raise suspicion and so she replies:]

Do you know that from firsthand experience?

[anon]

[fusedstars]

It's powerful, and if you allow it, it can either make you weaker or stronger.

[Hei knew that first-hand.]

[text; anon]

[no_longer_a_king]

How can it make you both?

text;

[angramaintsu]

weakness

[looselips]

ha ha ha oh wow
I'd think anyone who has been here for more than five minutes would have already gotten over their mall goth phase, but I guess I was wrong.
then again, with a quality question like OP's, I don't know what I was expecting.

[puppy_lancer]

its not

[Text; Anonymous]

[no_longer_a_king]

[No matter the version, she isn't at all surprised by this answer.]

What makes you think it makes people weak?

[anon]

[scorchedchivalry]

Sacrifice.

anon until otherwise noted for both, then.

[no_longer_a_king]

How much do you have to be willing to sacrifice for the one you love?

[mask_of_suffering]

I've never really fallen in love before... But I think it means liking a person enough to the point that you want to be with someone forever.

[anon; text]

[no_longer_a_king]

What if you know you can't be with them forever? [Like how she had felt about Shirou.]

[Text, Anonymous]

[chronomancer]

The moment you realize you'd give up your entire life to give someone just a tiny, fleeting moment of genuine happiness, and you wouldn't feel cheated at all for it.

So yeah, it can be sacrifice. It's also fear, that you're not good enough and they'll leave you once they realize it, or that they'll be hurt and there won't be anything you can do about it. And I guess it's a weakness, that way, because you don't really care about yourself if it's for their sake, and it's stupid and irrational and you just can't stop. You don't want to, either.

I don't know if it's powerful, or what you define as powerful. But you'll know, when you feel it. You'll know and it'll hurt and it'll scare you, but you might just be lucky enough to come out of it better off because of it.

Assuming anon/text until otherwise noted for both.

[no_longer_a_king]

[Hurt her and scare her and desires for a fleeting moment of happiness despite everything? Fear of not being good enough, that he'd be hurt and--

--it's almost scarily how she felt ever since Shirou started making those proclamations at her from the beginning. So scary it takes her breath away.]

What do you do if you hurt the person you love and you can never apologize to them?

[not anon]

[chevalier_mal_fet]

Love is the Dream of completion. To find the things one lacks in another soul, and to bring that soul the things it lacks in turn. To form a new and perfect whole, to be untied is to love.

Love's Power is so great that it survives all that humankind can do to dishonor it or put it to death. It survives even Lovers themselves.
But Love is Rare, and while it might outlast cruelty or pain or death itself, it cannot stop those things from being.

[ANON. FOREVER. FOR. EV. ER.] Also text.

[no_longer_a_king]

[Well if Arturia ever wanted to know what it was like to be hit in the face with a semi truck she definitely knows now. Of course. First Gawain and now Lancelot is here and she isn't sure how to feel about this at all.

There is a very long pause before he gets a reply. The only reason he gets one at all is because Arturia is convinced it'd be suspicious if he didn't get one while everyone else did.]

Do you know what to do if you hurt the person you love and cannot ever have a chance to make it up to them?

[It strikes her as strangely comical how she doesn't know if she's talking about Shirou or Guinevere here.]

perma-text;

[yougotthatwrong]

...Hope.

Perma-anon and text on her end!

[no_longer_a_king]

Hope?