bruno

"mr storylets"

writer (derogatory). lead designer on Fallen London.

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Between particle accelerators and fusion reactions of various kinds, there's probably at least a few kilograms of carbon and nitrogen on Earth that are man-made, and not the product of stellar fusion, right? Maybe, let's say, enough to make a person.

Let's say we made that person. Say we made a boy who, unlike you and me, is emphatically not made of star-stuff. Primordial ancient hydrogen and man-made carbon. Would he look up at the night sky and feel... what? Would he feel nothing? Would he stare at the pinpricks of light in the dark and well up with contempt?


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Would he stare at the pinpricks of light in the dark and well up with contempt?

I can only see this being the case if he both knows he's not made of star stuff (this only happens if you tell him as much) and has reason to feel bad about that (this only happens if you tell other people in his life about it, thus giving them ammo to give him shit about it).

i dunno, i dont think stars are cool because im made of them, i think they're cool because they're big cool balls of fire, i dont think this would change if i was artificial or whatever