Neko no Te datte Yaku ni Tatsu - Ch. 220 - From Now On

[Angelonius]

Comfort her already, then marry her!

 

[MechaBowzilla]

GOD DAMMIT WHO CARES ABOUT THIS LAME DRAMA

Your experiences are not universal.

 

[Netik765]

I'd hug her, poor Mii-chan

 

[Jatopian]

I dont blame Mii-chan for being scared of being immortal or long-lived. Imagine if our closest friends, lovers, or family all had lifespans as short as hamsters. Seeing them grow old in the blink of an eye and see each and every one of them disappear before you've even lived a fraction of your own life. Thats just depressing

It's just not a good analogy. Sorry, it doesn't take 70 years to blink your eyes, even if you're a fuckin Ent. She is still perceiving things at a normal rate of time, like humans. Otherwise she couldn't find pleasure in such fleeting things as Ciao Sticks, let alone love.

Also there are other bakeneko so if it really matters to have immortal friends the option is there.

 

[AzureLightning]

Okay so it is immortality, or rather potential immortality. We don't know, she doesn't know, the other immortal guys dunno.
I guess that explains why she didn't isolate herself, because no one knows for sure. I wonder if there's a way to find out? Maybe the original two nekomata's can tell.

 

[LupusVir]

It's just not a good analogy. Sorry, it doesn't take 70 years to blink your eyes, even if you're a fuckin Ent. She is still perceiving things at a normal rate of time, like humans. Otherwise she couldn't find pleasure in such fleeting things as Ciao Sticks, let alone love.

Also there are other bakeneko so if it really matters to have immortal friends the option is there.

She can find pleasure in those things now because she's only 15. Time passes by more quickly the more of it you've experienced. Also, "blink of an eye" is just a saying. So targeting that as part of your argument isn't convincing.

 

[LupusVir]

Okay so it is immortality, or rather potential immortality. We don't know, she doesn't know, the other immortal guys dunno.
I guess that explains why she didn't isolate herself, because no one knows for sure. I wonder if there's a way to find out? Maybe the original two nekomata's can tell.

Yeah, it seems like they aren't sure one way or another. So there's hope.

 

[BCS]

Would have a lot of explaining to do when you are in your 40s and she stay a kid

Then you just have her call you daddy ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)https://lenny-face-generator.textsmilies.com/

 

[Jatopian]

She can find pleasure in those things now because she's only 15. Time passes by more quickly the more of it you've experienced.

Sounds fake. But you know what, feel free to give me bakeneko style immortality so I can see that I'm wrong.

Also, "blink of an eye" is just a saying. So targeting that as part of your argument isn't convincing.

I'm saying it's not a remotely fair comparison, whether literal or metaphorical. It's a whole human lifetime. It's never going to be that insignificant.

 

[LupusVir]

Sounds fake. But you know what, feel free to give me bakeneko style immortality so I can see that I'm wrong.

Nah, this is legitimate. Time feels like it passes more quickly as you get older because any period of time you experience is a smaller percentage of your life when you are older vs when you are younger. I'm sure you can look back on your childhood and see this. As a child, a week or a month seems to crawl by so slowly. Even days drag on. But now as an adult, you find yourself being surprised that it's already next month, the day is over before you realize it, and you lose weeks quickly.
The perception of time is 100% relative. This is not an opinion or something. Look into it.

 

[Jatopian]

Nah, this is legitimate. Time feels like it passes more quickly as you get older because any period of time you experience is a smaller percentage of your life when you are older vs when you are younger. I'm sure you can look back on your childhood and see this. As a child, a week or a month seems to crawl by so slowly. Even days drag on. But now as an adult, you find yourself being surprised that it's already next month, the day is over before you realize it, and you lose weeks quickly.
The perception of time is 100% relative. This is not an opinion or something. Look into it.

Oh, I've experienced it, but I chalk it up to being busy and having a lot on my mind. Take a proper vacation, mute all calls from work and live in the moment, and it can be as slow as ever. Mindfulness practices can also help, if for some reason you want to live fully in the moment at work or while doing chores.

Even if there were some unavoidable effect from aging here, I find it absurd to suggest it would just accelerate infinitely.

 

[LupusVir]

Oh, I've experienced it, but I chalk it up to being busy and having a lot on my mind. Take a proper vacation, mute all calls from work and live in the moment, and it can be as slow as ever. Mindfulness practices can also help, if for some reason you want to live fully in the moment at work or while doing chores.

Even if there were some unavoidable effect from aging here, I find it absurd to suggest it would just accelerate infinitely.

It wouldn't approach infinity of course. At some point, you reach a limit on how much your brain can store. So you have a cap on how much life you remember experiencing that you can compare to the life you are currently experiencing.
Now, I don't know what the relative passage of time would feel like at that point. But it would be a significant difference.

Of course, you understand that these individuals would experience time mostly normally in the moment, if they fully focused on it. But as soon as the moment is over, or the next day or whatever, looking back at that moment, it would feel incredibly short. It would also affect you any time you stopped focusing on the now, so you'd probably lose time in between moments of interest.

And then at the end of a partner's life, remembering the times you had together would also feel depressingly short.

That's not to say it wouldn't be worth being with someone. But it would have a special flavor of melancholy to it that would ramp up to heart-rending when they die, in addition to the normal feelings of loss. Which might make it not worth the depression for some.

 

[eviljackspicer]

One solution: Breed so much that your children (and their children and so on) can fuss over you for eternity.

 

[flannan]

Bonus points for both of them being long-lived. Furina, at the bottom, is about 500 years old, and Aether, at the top, is much older than her.