ALSO. a great benefit to writing taro emotionless is the possibilities when they're interacting with characters pretending / trying to be emotionless. as well as like—and its something that i think about a lot when i am writing taro—the idea of how many times can you humanize something before it doesn't matter that it isn't human? it's— i can't quite find the words properly.
but even though taro can't feel, they pretend to feel ... and those emotions often feel so real to people that it becomes a matter of, from an outside looking in, how much does it matter when peoples' denial of what is becomes the truth. to taro nothing changes, they aren't sentient, they can't feel. but to someone who keeps denying it, perception is everything.
