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[Lust has been drinking. She doesn't usually indulge to the point where mildly tipsy starts heading to drunk, but it's been an emotional week and two drinks turned into three until she's fiddling with her gear with a half empty wine bottle on the table beside her and a full glass in her hand.

Probably not the best time to flip on the record function and put out a general message.]

Why do emotions have to play such a ridiculously large part in daily life? They're nothing but organic chemical reactions. You mix sodium bicarbonate and acetic acid and get fizzing, bubbling carbonic acid. It's the same damned thing, at the most basic level. Chemicals interact with other chemicals and cause a reaction.

But the molecules that give birth to emotional feeling...they're never dormant. They're never inactive. They're always combining and breaking apart and firing off signals that we have no choice but to be ruled by. Human beings are like a single chemical in that way, one that reacts in a most volatile manner to every other substance and stimulus it encounters.

The sheer number of emotions a single person experiences in a single day... it's overwhelming. And like all chemical reactions, prone to change drastically the moment something new is introduced. The simple act of going from content to frightened or angry or even irritated is enough to interfere with daily life.

That seems like a detrimental design flaw, to me.

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They're necessary for survival; seems like that's the primary objective, anyway.

[It takes a little bit before Al responds--between The Incident and Ed and Winry leaving, he's rather emotionally sore. Plus he's not sure how angry Lust still is at him over the whole thing.]

...part of it is survival. Adrenaline as part of the fight-or-flight response becomes excitement or anger, and without endorphins humans wouldn't have any incentive to interact with one another or continue the race.

But...even aside from that, if we didn't have any emotions, I don't think you could really say that 'life' exists, at least not the way we think of it. There wouldn't be any variety, it would be...cold. Honestly, I don't think intelligence could even exist at all without emotion along with it.

[Half empty bottle of wine and rambling about science and emotions at the network? Clearly something's up.]

I don't think I can argue with that assessment.

[Feelings aren't bad, but damn it they're hard.]

I'm about to head back to the house, interested in a drinking partner?

_{[She's out and about-- been training. Can't get complacent just because she now has a crashpad she doesn't have to pay for!]

[Her breath is puffing visibly in front of her when she replies, and her cheeks are red. It's chilly out and she's been jogging.]}

If we didn't have emotions, it'd be pretty hard to care about anything.

It's tough but you just... I dunno, deal with it?

_{[... Oh. Now she sees the wine.]}

... Are you okay?

No need to be like that, love. Sure emotions're hard but... keeps things from being boring, eh? Ups and downs all considered.

[ He's noting that wine bottle though. Looks like this one's dealing with some heavy issues. Ronald's not even gonna question the chemical reactions bit. All the science kinda went over his head. ]

Fancy accepting an offer to lend an ear to your troubles?

[Veronica probably wouldn't have flipped onto this video, but something about it just seemed to click with her.]

...My sister always talked about how emotions are the building blocks of people, and how they're supposed to make us who we are.

[She shook her head.] I'm not so sure about it, though. I'm terrible with emotions. [Yeah, she'll admit it.] It's easier sometimes to just not focus on them.

I think most of it has to do with our conscience. We're either constantly questioning things, making situations more complicated than they need to be or not doing it enough.

... Although it's totally cliche, talking it out sometimes helps.

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