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[The man is dressed in a classy suit with green highlights, using needlessly dramatic lighting as he starts to talk, very master of ceremony.]

ImPorts and Very ImPortants!

[He turns the camera around to show a wall that he has artfully decorated with a word cloud. Yes, he has put a lot of work in.]

Some of you might have enjoyed the riddle page of the Heropan Post before. I've been architect of it for a few months now. You're welcome!

Yet here I come to you with a riddle that I can't ever seem to quite figure out by myself.

[The camera is turned around again and he can be seen slowly drawing a heart in the air with two fingers as he talks.]

I'm worthless to one but priceless to two. What am I?

I am love.

Wait! That's not the riddle that leaves me puzzled. It goes deeper. One of the few questions where I'm not certain of the answer yet. Whenever I think I know, I get thrown for a loop.

So.

What is love?

Or, should I ask, what is it to you?

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Complicated situation, but the salient part is that I started getting jealous. I also became aware of how deeply I'd come to trust him, which is significant for me. I don't trust easily.

[He doesn't talk like this easily or offer up personal details, but he appreciates Edward's analytical approach to this, and suspects that they have a similar approach to emotions in general: as a foreign land that they don't know how to navigate and aren't even sure that there are advantages to doing so.]

Doesn't it depend on what kind of love we're talking about? I love my dad and I love my girlfriend, but I wouldn't say it's the same thing.

Are you a destructive person?

I do, but I am very careful with who I choose to get close to.

It's better than the alternative of being completely alone.

Guess that means I can skip the suit of armor, then.

I would love to meet you in person one of these days.

You provide the games, I'll bring the snacks.

Correct, I've observed a number of real emotions. I believe I have more control over them than humans do, if only because they are divorced from the physical sensations that accompany many of them. Since I'm capable of temporarily assuming human form, I've noticed that while the emotions remain regardless of form, emotions in a human body are more overwhelming.

Nothing about love is logical

[M will readily concede that point. It's one he's thought about many times himself.]

A weakness in what way? That they can hurt you, or that other people can hurt them?

Really? I'd never guessed.

[Snarky teen gotta snark.]

Look, with love you gotta take the plunge. Yeah, there's a high chance that you're gonna get hurt in the end, and possibly in the middle too, but it's totally worth it for everything else.

I usually am, where people are concerned.

So now, my question: why does that love need to be tested and quantified, to begin with? Usually humans are willing to trust love when it's given.

Is there a reason why that trust is absent?

I lived in Heropa originally, when I first arrived, but it's Florida. It was hard enough to stay there for the winter months, I'm not going to endure that climate for spring, much less summer.

[It would really interfere with the three piece suit style he's grown accustomed to.]

But for this, I wouldn't mind coming to visit. When are you free?

Interesting. Was there a specific event that changed your mind on that, a special person?

[He can't help his curiosity and he won't bother to try.]

I can be very destructive.

I suppose so. There is a need for human companionship that can't be entirely denied. However, maybe friendship is more easily controlled than love.

You're on, friend.

Fascinating.

You are in a unique position to compare and contrast. Do you consider those emotions something that strengthen or weaken you, especially those linked to love?

Trust is not something that comes easily to me.

But mostly, if I am to make decisions based on what I've been told, I would like to make sure that the information I've been given is factually accurate. Surely that is understandable.

I suppose so, in theory.

However, my knowledge of any other love than romantic and, recently, in friendship, has never been anything other than theoretical.

Multiple people, and multiple events changed my mind. No change like that ever happens overnight - it comes with knowledge and experience.

Ah. That makes it more difficult. [ And explains a lot, actually. ] I think love is one of those things you can't quantify. You need to live it to understand it.

Sorry.

Jealousy and trust. I see.

I don't trust easily either, so I can relate to that. I don't think I've ever trusted anyone the way I trust them. but that's all the more reason for me to not want to risk messing it up. Losing them entirely.

All of the above. And, furthermore, that I hurt them. Based on precedent, it seems very likely.

That it isn't logical, doesn't that terrify you?

...there's not much left, once you take out the middle and the end, but I appreciate the pep talk.

Perhaps I will. Take the plunge.

You've already risked that, though.

[Adam doesn't mean anything specific, although he does have certain very specific suspicions regarding how one response to this post was Very Different and much more personal than the others.]

Existing means the risk of messing up, and caring for someone means the risk of losing them. If you engage in a romantic relationship--drawing a conclusion here from the information provided--and it doesn't succeed you might sour the friendship. If you refuse, that might sour the relationship.

Risk cannot be avoided, but it can be calculated for. If you risk losing them entirely, then make it worth it. Evaluate what you want, evaluate what they want, and choose the course that best provides for those variables.

[See? Love can be reduced to logical hypotheticals! High five.]

Well, that sounds like quite the night! I must say, at least you got drunk with the right man.

How does one become the prince of Debauchery?

...are you considering another change in career?

I'm not cancelling it out.

I don't think it'd vastly differ from a club owner and I'd get royalty perks.

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