Oh, I should clarify- When I say I talk with them, I'm not actually doing it out loud. It's more like I'm imagining myself talking to them, and I feel like I'm carrying on a normal conversation, but I deal with language differently in my head. Kind of difficult to explain how. It's like sentences are constantly repeating and revising themselves, sometimes it all falls apart into speech-sounds + meaning, sometimes the words come immediately with no changes needed. I'm used to thinking in this way, they all talk to me in this same way (writing helps me pin down language), but subjectively it feels to me like carrying on a normal conversation minus the difficulty of actually doing it out loud and in realtime.
I will be a bit weirded-out by meeting Sh-San face to face whenever he gets here. With the other Jiko it's pretty easy to meet them since they're... With people from the robot story, I've only known them for ~2 years and they're generally the sort of person that is easy to hang out with. I mean, we can sit around and watch movies and make dumb jokes together. Evan and I sort of have an understanding where we hardly ever talk to each other but both enjoy being around another person and not having to talk (btw, he's been watching everything in Yumeza but does not yet feel like interacting). But with Sh-San, I knew him when I was a kid, and it was definitely sort of hero-worship. Although we did interact a lot over the course of the story. Heck, I ended up living with him for several years at one point. But most of the time we were on different planets and just communicating through the technology he'd set up, and it was always very strange to actually encounter him in person. Opening up communication with him again has actually been pretty intense. He was my first jiko. And in a lot of ways it feels like getting back in touch with a family member I haven't seen in ages. It's even more intense to actually be letting any of this out of my head. It was never even supposed to be a story that was shown to anyone. I never tried to draw or write it when I was a kid because that would have been like admitting it was fictional and of course I knew, but I still didn't want to do it. Plus it felt too personal, because hey, it WAS since I was a character in it. Self-insert not so good for writing. Do I get Earth/Dreaming dual citizenship? :P
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I will be a bit weirded-out by meeting Sh-San face to face whenever he gets here. With the other Jiko it's pretty easy to meet them since they're... With people from the robot story, I've only known them for ~2 years and they're generally the sort of person that is easy to hang out with. I mean, we can sit around and watch movies and make dumb jokes together. Evan and I sort of have an understanding where we hardly ever talk to each other but both enjoy being around another person and not having to talk (btw, he's been watching everything in Yumeza but does not yet feel like interacting). But with Sh-San, I knew him when I was a kid, and it was definitely sort of hero-worship. Although we did interact a lot over the course of the story. Heck, I ended up living with him for several years at one point. But most of the time we were on different planets and just communicating through the technology he'd set up, and it was always very strange to actually encounter him in person. Opening up communication with him again has actually been pretty intense. He was my first jiko. And in a lot of ways it feels like getting back in touch with a family member I haven't seen in ages. It's even more intense to actually be letting any of this out of my head. It was never even supposed to be a story that was shown to anyone. I never tried to draw or write it when I was a kid because that would have been like admitting it was fictional and of course I knew, but I still didn't want to do it. Plus it felt too personal, because hey, it WAS since I was a character in it. Self-insert not so good for writing. Do I get Earth/Dreaming dual citizenship? :P