To be honest, you I don't find disconcerting. You are an isolated element - just one person.
[Or... doll or android or whatever it is that she is, exactly.]
In truth, the most worrying thing about these townspeople for me is that the lack of emotional range can make their actions unpredictable. Many of us use emotional responses as indicators of what somebody might do next. For instance, if you were planning to attack me - and this is a hypothetical, mind, I am not trying to cast suspicion on you - I would have little warning. I would not be able to read any signs of anxiety, or any anger off of you, and you would be able to get the jump on me.
Now, if you were to attack me - again, I am not insinuating that you will - then we are evenly matched, even if you gain the element of surprise. One on one. If these people here, who I don't know the motives of and who I am unable to read, decided to attack en masse, I would, most succinctly, be fucked. No warning and heavily outmatched. And even now, I have no assurance that this is not what they are planning, because I have no way of knowing.
So while this possibility is unlikely, it does exist. Misreading one person can be dangerous, but survivable. Misreading an entire town? That could be deadly.
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[Or... doll or android or whatever it is that she is, exactly.]
In truth, the most worrying thing about these townspeople for me is that the lack of emotional range can make their actions unpredictable. Many of us use emotional responses as indicators of what somebody might do next. For instance, if you were planning to attack me - and this is a hypothetical, mind, I am not trying to cast suspicion on you - I would have little warning. I would not be able to read any signs of anxiety, or any anger off of you, and you would be able to get the jump on me.
Now, if you were to attack me - again, I am not insinuating that you will - then we are evenly matched, even if you gain the element of surprise. One on one. If these people here, who I don't know the motives of and who I am unable to read, decided to attack en masse, I would, most succinctly, be fucked. No warning and heavily outmatched. And even now, I have no assurance that this is not what they are planning, because I have no way of knowing.
So while this possibility is unlikely, it does exist. Misreading one person can be dangerous, but survivable. Misreading an entire town? That could be deadly.