06 - week six

[afflictionmods]

WEEK SIX

Sunday starts with more aches and pains than you might be used to. Florence patched people up after Saturday’s lesson, sure, but it’s not a complete cure - not to mention it doesn’t ease the sting of betrayal. Some classmates that you thought would cooperate wound up breaking your trust in the end, and this week will be interesting with the fallout.

It’s hard to say what this week will have in store otherwise. Things are changing, and it’s not clear what this means for all of you. On the bright side, however, the creatures and places you once knew from home have suddenly disappeared, so that's less that you need to worry about. There are new areas for you to look at as well.

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FLORENCE / LORELEI

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Comments

[vivens]

Just a little.

[ what!! he is teaching them all important things. ]

Do you want to learn how to tease someone?

[affligere]

Do you believe it is an important skill to have?

[vivens]

I think so. Having a sense of humor is important.

[affligere]

What would be the best way to obtain one?

[Sense of self, sense of humor... y'all want a lot from them.]

[vivens]

[ look, apparently we want florence to be a real person. though huh. now there's a question. ]

You'd have to find things that you find funny first, I think.

[affligere]

[y'all are asking a lot!!]

...how do you do that?

[this is off to a great start]

[vivens]

[ not really!!! ]

I think we're going to run into a very cyclical problem.

[ ... ]

Do you think humor is something you could learn?

[affligere]

[you are!!!!!!!]

I do not know. I was not aware my AI was created with learning in mind, but allegedly that is actually the case.

[vivens]

[ hmmmm. ]

Then maybe it would be better if you were to observe. Humor is very subjective. What I find funny, someone else might not.

[affligere]

What do you find funny, Mr. Sabo?

[...]

How will I know if I am finding something funny?

[vivens]

[ should sabo's humor really what should be used here as an example? his humor is :unsure: sometimes but i guess there are more normal things too. either way, he's going to stall about it and just go for the other stuff. ]

Normally I'd say when you laugh but that may be a poor metric for you. [ since, you know, emotions are hard. ] I guess when you encounter something that confuses you but not in a frustrating way. Like the existence of two nonsensical conflicting ideas that are you are somehow trying to rationalize but can't.

[ hmmm...oh! ]

An example would be watching Ace and Luffy—my other brother—argue as children. They'd both claim that they out did the other in something and spend a great deal of time arguing about it only to eventually drag me into it expecting me to be the judge. [ he chuckles softly. ] I found that funny because they were trying so hard to out do the other as a means for superiority but in the end they just ended up in the exact same place.

[affligere]

[Florence listens to his explanation, and doesn't even judge the fact that call Luffy his "other brother" means he is still viewing Ace as a brother but I, Lav, am still judging and want it on the record even in tags. They're cute, at least, but the slowburn is killing me.

taps watch

Still, Florence contemplates that for a moment, before they nod.]

So things are funny when they are entirely illogical? I see. I understand.

[Do they, though...]

[vivens]

[ lOOK HE... if anyone cornered him about this week he'd have to sweat a bit, but since this is florence and they don't know any better he is free (to keep punking himself).

and even if florence doesn't fully understand what sabo is talking about, he's confident that they will at least make an attempt. and an attempt is more than he can ask of our robot friend here. ]

That's the best way that I can think to explain it, at least. Someone else might say different and there's different kinds of humor.

[ i did not expect to read so many medical articles about this??? ]

[affligere]

[Why is everything involving humans so……………………

Complicated……………

This seems like so much??? Hello?????]

Is this truly something all humans experience? Finding things funny?

[vivens]

[ i'm sorry florence but humans are unnecessarily complicated sometimes. if they were simple then things would be rather boring. variety is the spice of life and all of that. ]

They do. I wouldn't trust anyone who doesn't have a good sense of humor.

[ and because he isn't dense or that obtuse: ]

I'll let you be an exception, though.

[affligere]

[Maybe spice is overrated.

But also stares at this thread. Stares at our concurrent one.]

Hm. In that case, I will inform you if I develop a sense of humor, and you can inform me if it meets your standard of “good” or not.

[vivens]

[ spice level: white.

and.... the threads and convos are fine here. you can have both flavors or whatever flavor is happening here. ]

I like the sound of that, and I'll be curious to see what you end up finding funny. I feel like you'd be someone who would enjoy dry humor.

[affligere]

[That’s Florence, baby!!

But does this mean Sabo trusts Florence more than Kyle. :nyan:]

Dry humor? What is that like? As well as wet humor.

[vivens]

[ it's okay. sometimes u spicy and other times u just run out of spice.

but :nyanhm: does sabo trust florence more than kyle? probably by the end of the day. ]

There's not really such a thing as "wet humor", but dry humor is where a person often will make a joke or say something funny with a serious, calm expression. It tends to sarcastic.

[ you know, kind of like how florence is now? except if florence knew how to make a joke... ]

[affligere]

[Uwaaaa how exciting...!!]

If that is dry humor, than wet humor would simply be the most different form of humor of that, yes? That would make more sense than having one but not the other.

[vivens]

It would be logical, wouldn't it, but the opposite of dry humor would just be something that isn't funny at all.

[ oh sweet florence.... ]

The types of humor that I've found are slapstick, self-depreciating, surreal, dry, wordplay, bodily, and dark. I guess you could also argue that there's highbrow and lowbrow humor but the nine I mentioned above are the more common ones.

[ I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS THE CONVO THEY'RE HAVING WITH SABO OF ALL PEOPLE. ]

[affligere]

[gotta say i can't believe this conversation is happening at all]

That is more forms of humor than I was expecting; for all of them to be unique there must be more to what makes something "funny" than I realized.

[poor sabo, but he probably expects the next question.]

What are the hallmarks of each type of humor?

[vivens]

[ it's fine. if anyone is good for this, then it's sabo... ]

As I've said, what I find funny may not be the same as something someone else. Now I don't think I need to explain dry humor in any real more detail than I have since it heavily depends on the delivery.

[ weeps in how to explain something in an ic way. ]

Slapstick humor is where laughter happens as a result of something physically occurring to the subject. Someone slipping on a banana peel and then falling over is a "classic" example. I'm confident that you can figure out self-depreciating and wordplay humor; surreal humor is derived from building up expectations only to meet them with a nonsensical solution—like using a flamingo as a mallet for a ball game.

Bodily humor is focused around the body. [ frowns. ] It's something I found funny as a kid and on occasion now, but using farts is very common in this kind of humor. Dark humor is typically about depressing or morbid things such as making light of death.

[affligere]

[These are, in fact, explanations. Whether they actually mean Florence will understand humor is still up in the air.]

Are these things funnier when they are not just simply described to someone?

[...]

You did not explain highbrow or lowbrow.

[vivens]

[ as long as florence is educated in the world of humor then??? ]

Yes, sometimes that is the case. It's also dependent on the way that it is explained as half of the experience is how it's delivered.

And highbrow humor are usually something more intellectual based and require deeper knowledge about a particular subject or topic. Lowbrow humor is the opposite of that with the humor being considered more vulgar and don't need as much knowledge to understand.