It was pointed out to me that at some point we exceeded over 200 lychee polls, and apparently the tag system won't list more than 200 results... so I guess at some point I'll need to figure something else out....... You died, and the Magical Girl of Cinnamon and Spice was on reincarnation duty today. Cinnamon & Spice had a long double shift, and she was honestly getting a little tired of escorting various souls to their next isekai life for more than 2^(eternity) hours. Consequently, she went to Coffeebucks to pick up some liquid caffeine to keep herself awake, but she discovered that she left her wallet at home...... Feeling a little jived, Cinnamon & Spice was about to give up on her caffeine shot, when she realized that she had a method to gain some quick cash! Since she was carrying your soul in her bag, the Magical Girl temporarily rented your soul to a nearby demon to obtain extra pocket money to buy a Triple Chocolate Cinnamon and Spice Latte at Coffeebucks. By the time she came back from the barista with her drink, the demon had finished tinkering around with your soul for a bit. Eh? Sounds concerning? Nonsense! It's just a slight performance tweak or two. Nothing excessively unusual! Well, the Magical Girl of Cinnamon and Spice decided to ignore it and reincarnate you anyways. + + + You started your isekai life in another world totally fine with nothing out of the ordinary. However, when you were twelve years old, you were experiencing something stressful, and all of a sudden you lost consciousness. When you woke up, everything around you was totally in flames. While you were unconscious, you killed everything and everyone around you. You murdered your own family and slaughtered all of your neighbors. Your surroundings ended up bathed in a sea of blood and guts. You basically became an uncontrollable feral demon monster except with the outside appearance of a human. Your rampage ended only because there was nothing else to kill. When you regained consciousness, you were immediately apprehended by the authorities of this country and locked up. A team of demon specialists were assigned to your case, and before long they figured out the details of your situation. + + + Evidently, your soul is fractured in two halves. The "good half" is your normal typical self. But you also have a "bad half" that is chock full of demonic energy. Normally, the "bad half" is dormant and suppressed by the "good half". However, when it is awakened, you lose consciousness and you go on a killing rampage. The killing rampage is cursed such that you won't regain consciousness until you achieve the death of everyone that your demonic eyes lay a glimpse upon. If those individuals do not die, you will remain in the demonic state indefinitely until those deaths are obtained. If there are no targets left to kill, you will revert to your normal state after about an hour. The rampage is triggered by pure stress. After you exceed a certain threshold of stress, your "bad half" will awaken and rampage for a while until everyone in the vicinity is dead. The amount of stress necessary to trigger it is somewhat unpredictable, but generally speaking if it's an amount that causes you think — "I feel stressed" — then you have probably already surpassed the threshold necessary to trigger your demonic rampage. Subconscious stress is also sufficient to trigger a rampage. It does not necessarily have to be an explicit or conscious thought. The specialists observed that sometimes the state change can occur when you were dreaming or unconscious, presumably when you were having a nightmare and experiencing a fearful situation. + + + It is impossible to remove the demonic half of your soul, because the procedure would kill you. The demonic parts are already deeply entwined and inseparable. The demon specialists concluded that your condition is incurable, so you will have to deal with this for the rest of your life. Fortunately, the countermeasure to your condition is fairly manageable. All of you have to do is lock yourself in a room whenever you feel like you might be stressed. Since you're still human in your rampaging state, and you only have slightly enhanced strength (in addition to sharp fangs and claws), typical security measures will be sufficient to suppress your violent inclinations. A moderately-strong warrior would be sufficient to subdue you. The most critical point is to guarantee that you don't see anyone with your eyes. If you see someone with your demonic eyes, either they must die or you will be stuck in your rampaging state indefinitely. As a fail-safe, the demon specialists tell you that want to make you permanently blind to guarantee that this won't be any issue anymore. If you can't see, your rampages will never last more than an hour, and there won't be anyone who will accidentally need to die. Regardless, you will probably need to constantly have a guardian who can neutralize you on-demand. Alternatively, they could lock you up in a basement forever. Or summarily execute you. The demon specialists already feel like they are being quite generous by giving you a choice. They are also open to negotiation. Their primary objective is to ensure the safety of the general public. 1. What is your response? What do you suggest that the demon specialists with you? Would you accept blindness in exchange for being allowed to walk around freely? 2. Do you get stressed often? Are you good at identifying your stress? 3. Can you name some things that make you stressed? 4. How would live your life? Would you try harder to avoid stress? Do you have methods to reduce stress? 5. Would you ever trust yourself to be around friends and loved ones? Or would you spend the rest of your life in isolation?
1. Remove my eyeballs. Yes 2. No. I know when I am stressed when I have this massive urge to bang my head into a wall so hard I immediately die or just have the urge to hit something. 3. League of Legends 4. I would live as an ascetic monk in the mountains while comprehending the Dao in order to achieve inner piece, eventaully ascend the mortal plane and destroy that bastard demon. 5. No. Why would I when I literally become a murder hobo just because I can't click/tap the damn x in an ad which redirects me to the play store or a shady website?
I would ask for them to fracture my soul as I don't want to have to deal with this in my next life as I would know at this point that life continues after death and a short life this time is worth not being screwed in the future.
Heck another one... Well, at least it's diverse social experimenting with varied questions and situations. 1. Agree to a blind, request the "Guardian" be your eyes. 2. Normally don't get stressed, but I get stressed when things don't follow the path they're supposed to. (ex: Rules being broken) 3. Differs (ex: People talking back about how the Rule is stupid so it should be waived) 4. One step at a time. I would probably not have anything much to stress me out if I wasn't able to see things. Just letting time pass is my method, a.k.a. none. 5. If I got myself the blind, and it can't be removed under any accidental or light circumstances, I would. Else I would probably become a Hermit with a Seeing Guardian.
1. What is your response? What do you suggest that the demon specialists with you? Would you accept blindness in exchange for being allowed to walk around freely? I would probably say: "You are making me stressed, you wouldn't like me when I am stressed" And then transform I like this weird @lychee version of the hulk 2. Do you get stressed often? Are you good at identifying your stress? I guess, maybe 3. Can you name some things that make you stressed? Probably that demon specialist and that Magical Girl of Cinnamon and Spice who gave my soul for a demon in exchange for some 'treats' and didn't even bother to bother 4. How would live your life? Would you try harder to avoid stress? Do you have methods to reduce stress? I don't know 5. Would you ever trust yourself to be around friends and loved ones? Or would you spend the rest of your life in isolation? I suppose a little bit with friends and loved one and most of time alone each day to evade the unnecessary bloodshed but maybe take the opportunity to conquer dungeons or something, letting all that power go to waste wouldn't be good
Die and petition that the manager (or which ever higher up) in charge of reincarnating people fix your soul and offer you another life. Afterall, it was the Magical Girl of Cinnamon and Spice that made the choice to loan us out (to an unauthorized individual) and buy coffee using that money. If they refuse, push the case to the court of the God of Judgement.
I easily know I'm stressed out when I'm having headaches, stomachaches, and nausea with slight dizziness? Or I achieved nirvana, basically saying 'fuck it all' to what's stressing me. It's either the first or the second result.
Lol damn make me permanently blind is a big no but I'm totally okay if they want to cover my eyes with blindfold or something Hmmm i would like to think that I'm not that stressed often, but who knows it just my feelings i might be clueless about my true feelingsand convince myself that I'm not stressed when it's actually the opposites, whenever I'm stressed i have the urge to eat something sweet. I'm actually more concern about dreaming since I'm the type who always "live" in the dreams, sometimes i experience nightmare and i like to read novels I'm very easily influenced by the story i read so i cried, mad, laugh often A few things make me stress is my family and my college homework How to reduce stress is be positive, and look where it shines the most Errrr no i would not have any friends or family, though i would like some cats to keep me less stress and company
1. What is your response? What do you suggest that the demon specialists with you? Would you accept blindness in exchange for being allowed to walk around freely? I'll try a few things to work around it. Maybe they have a magical something that could block my sight whenever I turn feral. Maybe I can condition myself to habitually cover my eyes and count to 10 whenever I feel unsettled. I can also try holding a sleeping pill behind my molars so that I would accidentally gulp it when I turn feral. If nothing works, then I'd accept being blinded. 2. Do you get stressed often? Are you good at identifying your stress? About everytime I had to do a long-term homework, the kind that the teachers would give a month to work for. I habitually procrastinate because I can't find motivation without that pressure of being close to deadline. Not sure if that counts as stress, but the most stress-like thing I've experienced is in this kind of situation and it gave me a headache until I went to sleep. 3. Can you name some things that make you stressed? Aside from the regular kind of stress that I need to motivate myself, I also get stressed when I'm at the center of attention. 4. How would live your life? Would you try harder to avoid stress? Do you have methods to reduce stress? I'd make it a long term project to be able to control my feral self. I'd badger the demon specialist to find me a job that is suitable for a blind person in preparation if I ever have my eyeballs gouged out. I deal with stress by playing games, sleeping and sometimes by walking aimlessly around the neighborhood. 5. Would you ever trust yourself to be around friends and loved ones? Or would you spend the rest of your life in isolation? No way, I'd live my life away from people.
1) I would let them take out my eyes. I would ask them to take me in as a trainee demon specialist so I can avenge my family and possibly use my demonification to some benefit. I would have some purpose to my life and they could probably use my rampages tactically if it is arranged properly. Also, everyone knows that the blind guy is always the super cool secret master who can beat the rest of the guys even with his eyes closed 2) I'm not sure. I've been apathetic to a degree for some years, and I don't really ever feel stress unless it's at real high levels. I'm not sure whether I'm just subconsciously suppressing it though, so maybe the curse will still pick it up 3) I did list a few things, but then realised they all had something in common. It's usually when something bad is inevitably about to happen, and there's no way I can fix it. Even worse if there's a very small chance I could fix it, but chances of success are low. Like if I procrastinated for way too long and now there's basically no way to recover, or I've done something stupid that people are going to find out about and I can't think of a way to right it or stop them from finding out 4) I partially answered this in question 1. An alternative route would be to live in some town or city with some job where I am unlikely to get stressed. I think practicing mediation and the like are probably good methods of preventing and coping with stress. Personally I don't really have a method to cope with stress other than to have a mindset where I don't get stressed often. 5) I'm not sure. In terms of friends i could just hang out with strong people so it's not as much of an issue. I think raising a family would definitely be the bad choice, but I wouldn't want to be restricted by my curse. Maybe if I have reached sufficient levels of enlightenment
Nothing brings me stress like Lychee's polls. 1. What is your response? What do you suggest that the demon specialists with you? Would you accept blindness in exchange for being allowed to walk around freely? I'd obviously request to be locked in a room alone, but I would want it to be in a room with lots of materials to work with, along with an open communication channel going to the outside so I could request things be made for me when I don't have the facilities. I would, as you'd probably guess from my previous poll responses, continue my work in building and programming computers. I will use whatever means I can to make logical devices to solve problems for me, and perhaps eventually I can just reside as a netizen hikikomori for the rest of my life. 2. Do you get stressed often? Are you good at identifying your stress? No, and yes. I forget my stress easily, and I usually only focus on one thing at a time. In fact, almost all my stress ever has come from dealing with too many things at once. 3. Can you name some things that make you stressed? More than a small number of tasks at a time. 4. How would live your life? Would you try harder to avoid stress? Do you have methods to reduce stress? I wouldn't particularly try at all. At most, my stress gets burned out automatically whenever it builds up, so I might even live in a more stressful manner. 5. Would you ever trust yourself to be around friends and loved ones? Or would you spend the rest of your life in isolation? I'd go ahead with meeting others, but only with restraints around my limbs so I can't harm them. No problems with the isolation thing.
1. What is your response? What do you suggest that the demon specialists with you? Would you accept blindness in exchange for being allowed to walk around freely? ...so I'm in a room with people who are threatening to kill or permanently blind me. They better get out quick because I feel like blacking out haha I don't mind imprisonment so long as I still have some freedom and especially privacy. But they really have no reason to cater to me so I'm probably screwed. Oh, come to think of it I just killed my whole family and burned down my house, I can't imagine that having any good repercussions... Yeah, they should lock me up, maybe in a crazy ward or something. No I would not accept blindness. 2. Do you get stressed often? Are you good at identifying your stress? I think I get stressed in situations I think I'm helpless... Also anything involving deadlines and expectations lol. I don't think it happens too often tho? 3. Can you name some things that make you stressed? Having to interact IRL socially. Doesn't matter if they're long time friends or total strangers, I will worry lol. Close immediate family is usually fine tho. Also stated above, deadlines and having people heap expectations onto me. Situations where I feel like my freedom to choose is taken away, potentially being a nuisance to anyone and basically just having to deal with anything unpleasant. Just to name a few? 4. How would live your life? Would you try harder to avoid stress? Do you have methods to reduce stress? Drugs-- just kidding. I already have a wonderful method of avoiding stress: escaping reality via fiction hehe. Oh! Also, cute dog and cat videos and being able to mofumofu them. That's living the dream right there 5. Would you ever trust yourself to be around friends and loved ones? Or would you spend the rest of your life in isolation? Isolation for the most part. I think I would get stressed if I was away from family for too long, I like secluding myself but that doesn't mean I always want to be alone. Question is,will they trust ME? I think that might just be another huge source of stress lol
1. What is your response? What do you suggest that the demon specialists with you? Would you accept blindness in exchange for being allowed to walk around freely? Did they have a novel and good food In basements? If not let's just make a special glasses that blind me for an hour 2. Do you get stressed often? Are you good at identifying your stress? Yes, my job cause that but my stress kind a quick burn or explosive then return normal after few minutes... In fact I good enough to feel someone stress just by hear it's voice 3. Can you name some things that make you stressed? Repeat question, dumbass who don't listen, hard headed person, always angry man, low battery, stupidly broke parts that never like fixed, and someone that ask about explanation of how turn on microwave... Don't ask, I don't know how 34 year old person can't use microwave, in fact they actually freaking buy every new models electronic and ask me how to use it! They don't even read manual or offer a water! They ask for freebies tech! 4. How would live your life? Would you try harder to avoid stress? Do you have methods to reduce stress? I have it... It's called video.or just lock your self in bathroom for an half hour 5. Would you ever trust yourself to be around friends and loved ones? Or would you spend the rest of your life in isolation? Depend, if they nice probably I will not triggered or just stay in basements as NEET
@lychee why not start tagging with "lychee poll 2"? So you'd have two groups and could continue indefinitely with number 3, 4 etc. To make it easier to access the tags, you could link 1 thread for each tag group in your signature, so people won't have to go down your list of threads.