(( I'm in trouble, I'm locked in a room full of Electric floor pannels, I can't get to my pod. ))
Those who can't are carried, or in the case of those trapped in the clutches of the doctor, gassed and then dragged to a pod.
((Don't think too hard about how gassing you worked if you're full robot.))
((Usually, the way it works in these situations, is that you're in an alternative reality, and don't have to worry about anything happening on the outside. Continue your simulation as if nothing happened.))
((I think a character like that would be interesting, but not necessarily realistic. Only someone prone to mental illness would behave like that or someone who find no other pleasure in life except for the pleasures of the flesh. People prove they can live with disabilities every day. The only thing that matters is how determined to live you are. And that's what the robot bodies represent, I think. The drive many living things have to survive for as long as possible, no matter the cost.
And really, how much do those senses get used in a flesh body? Food and drink is crap. The only smells you have are sanitizers, blood and worst things. The only touch you can find is in the embrace of your comrades, if they're sane enough and manage to survive long enough. Perhaps one could become so afraid of the pain and suffering he sees being inflicted on the others around him that he begins wishing he would loose his senses, wishing he would loose the burdens of the flesh. So he pumps himself full of anesthetic and commits suicide, making sure his body is destroyed in the process but his mind remains intact.
To be in the HMRC and not kill yourself, you have to be either crazy, a fool or determined to survive.))
((First of all, Pancaek is pretty mentally unstable as a character, so yes, he fits the bill.
As for the other stuff, people deal with disabilities all the time, but not with all the disabilities. Some, like Rabies, are still uncurable. Some disabilities are only dealt with by a vast minority of afflicted. As for the idea that it would only be someone who finds "no other pleasure in life except for the pleasures of the flesh," I will ask you if you actually are aware of how much we take from the "pleasures of the flesh". First of all, a very significant part of what we do is based directly on those "pleasures". But a lot of it we also take for granted. Or use it to stabilize ourselves, to give ourselves foundation, to direct ourselves. Even somebody who lives like a complete Spartan depends on these things.
I don't know of a single real world example of disability that removes as much from a normal human as what a robot body does. Not perhaps in the literal sense, (cancer, alzheimer, etc) but in the sense of completely taking away what a human being perceives as a reality, and
replacing it with something else.
The closest example I can find are the 60s stasis tanks, where a man was to be suspended for hours, without feeling the world around him. The minds of those testes usually began to wander, leading to hallucinations. And yes, people who spent a lot of time there displayed certain signs of losing the connection with reality. And those people after being suspended for several hours, then got out of those stasis tanks and ate, went home, etc. Imagine being suspended in such a stasis tank for an unlimited amount of time and having to deal with the real world at the same time.
As for "how much do those senses get used in a flesh body?" I would like to point out that we have unlimited alcohol, smokes, TV, food, (which tastes fine if you've been eating it forever) exotic animals and beings, procrastination, VR Simulations, VR Simulations
with senses, and a knowledge about a lot of stuff that is otherwise forbidden for the general public to even think about. I don't know about you, but I'd kill for that. The idea that HMRC is some kind of hell on earth is frankly overrated, even it's casualty rates are not that bad.))
((It's the little things. You realize that you don't feel air currents on your face, or smell the chemical smell of the latrines or whatever they have onboard. With no metabolism, you have that much less to do. Waking and dreaming are that much less distinct. On its own, it won't cause insanity, but in a fragile person or on top of other factors, it could push them over the edge. And the HMRC has plenty of people close to the edge...))
((The thing is, since no real-world studies have been done on this kind of thing, we don't know if it would cause insanity on it's own. I would cautiously lean towards the idea that yes, it would. But once again, we really don't know.))
But really, if you want to actually roleplay a realistic human beings reaction to a robot body, you have my full applause. Because nobody else has done it so far. (Except Jim, but he was more concerned with being a clone than a robot.)
(I'm going to take that as a compliment and thank you for it. It'll be either the second or third I've gotten for Jim. ^^^)
((You're welcome.))
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