“Wow, soul melding, that sounds soooo much better…” I deadpanned, rolling my eyes.

I was thinking I liked her...

Something within me broke free, and I suddenly felt an overwhelming need to have him hold me like those eyes promised… those love filled eyes...

But maybe not.

You're going way out of your way to make me hate him even more aren't you? Basically at this point you're saying... he is Ruby's destined mate because... mumblemumble instincts somethingsomething love in eyes blahbloo magic.

Also your technobabble about "no sentience" is painful. Dogs have sentience. Sentience is the sense of "I have subjective feelings about things and am myself." It is more related to emotion than reason. If Whateverhisname has no sentience, then the concept of him loving people falls apart because he cannot feel love. There would be no sense of protection or possessiveness, only "I do this because at this very moment this is the world around me."

You might mean reason, but you can't mean that either, because reason doesn't work in opposition and separate from emotion, but works in concordance in it, both affecting each other, and it is, just like feelings, exists on a broad level and we can observe basic reasoning even in animals.

6966690 no, nope. I'm not playing 'the politically correct'/ circular reasoning game when it comes to Sentience... Either take how it is noted as sentience in universe(not IRL) or not... I don't need nor want to get into philosophical debate on it...

6966690 new comment to prevent not seeing me edit previous comment: I have made a slight alteration of what I said still not 'politically correct' but it should have added some clarification to it.

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(Working on reply to everything else.)

The sentience thing is not really a... it's just a phrasing thing, at the end of the day. I think I get what you mean, that he's supposed to have a more instinctual animalistic intelligence... but it doesn't seem like it's exactly not intelligence. It's a kind of intelligence, and a kind of feeling, but a different kind.

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The sentience thing is not really a... it's just a phrasing thing, at the end of the day.

Basically... One of the reasons I wasn't going to play that game was i would end up pulling out hair trying to find the 'correct' terminology that sounded like something a layperson would say not someone who sounds like they have a pile of PhDs

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Yeah. I get where you're coming from. Intelligence is er... not actually well understood, so the terminology is vague anyway.

Why doesn't this story have a dark tag?

6967044 Good point. I hadn't planed for it be dark but its moving that way