Subject: I don't really see wangst as an emotion.
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Posted on: 2013-06-27 12:15:00 UTC

Either way, it's not the claim of having emotions as much as the way they're represented that makes a subset of characters able to experience them. I suppose one could make the case that Sues are at least capable of experiencing happiness, but their happiness is usually either a concentrate of their lust, not always for the designated "hott" character, but also for things like power or self-elevation, or of triumph, which isn't really an emotion either.

Then again, I know that the possibility of a Sue capable of experiencing a wider variety of emotions exists, because some of their number are capable of being made into more developed characters through either rewriting or recruitment. So this presents a potential contradiction. There may be something within their neuroglitter structural array that shifts based on character growth. I see another experiment on the horizon!

Still, I'll keep the possibility of full-emotional-spectrum Sues in mind when selecting a test subject.
Your contributions to the study are appreciated. Lab coat? We have them in traditional white, along with gray, dark blue, and black. We had a green one, but it was that ugly bright green color that some people call "neon green", and I shoved it in the closet. I don't know why people say certain colors are "neon". Neon glows in the low orange range; any colors outside that portion of the spectrum are, by default, not neon.

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