I’ve gone kind of spiraling down the idea of how the plurbs deal with discomfort
Because you can tell based on Zosia’s facial expression in the hospital scene that hdp is obviously unpleasant to drink, but at the same time you’d assume there has to be some kind of flavoring out there, like the stuff they use to flavor liquid medicine, and that’s not even an essential resource to worry about conserving so why not just use it?
Do they just not really care? Even if discomfort is not really pain you would assume the hive in general tries to avoid trivial feelings, but I don’t know. They seemed to not care all too much about the guy who impaled himself, just if he pierced anything vital. They shrugged it off so easily. And yet, I imagine that guy himself was really going through it, however that works, if your consciousness is collective but your body feels its own sensations… how would you feel emotionally about that? Who ends up feeling the “pain” in the end as I imagine a great part of that is mental. But it’s the same with pleasure, and Zosia was able to feel the massage, so… I don’t know
And that makes me wonder about what other things they just kinda brush off or choose not to do anything about. Like zosia hospital angst. Did they even put her under when they were taking care of her grenade wounds? In this case I mean in the sedation sense, and I’m inclined to say no, because if her emotions and consciousness are really melded with everyone else’s, and if she’s really so happy all the time, she would not feel distress worthy enough of needing sedation. So was she just WATCHING them do it? IS SHE GOING TO REMEMBER THAT ONCE SHES OUT?? And I guess if you once again consider how they seem more concerned about survival than anything you can wonder if they even numbed her at all… what’s in the iv bag? Is she on pain meds or is it just fluids? She looks like she’s hurting as she moves around in the bed! And DHL Guy never specified that she wasn’t feeling any pain, just explained her injuries in that same kind of clinical cold way they described the impaled guy’s
At the end of the day the hive overall does not seem to express much remorse for those that they lose or those that are going through some kind of suffering. They basically say it’s something isolated and contained to the individual’s body that overall has no bearing on the hive’s collective feelings as a whole, so why should they really care…
Sometimes it really does feel like the vessels are just merely vessels. Like even though the hive loves everyone, at the same time, it sees itself as generally disposable for the greater good. I really do think that if zosia no longer became useful to carol they would be willing to toss her around as blackmail and feel indifferent to it
Edit: Upon further analysis of Zosia IV bag, I learned that quite frequently pain medication and fluids are in separate bags, depending on the type of pain medication it is. Zosia only has one bag. And yes, the rest of the time it is normal to have just one bag for fluid and pain medication, but when this happens, it has a big prescription label on it.
There’s no label on the bag. It’s just a standard fluid bag
There’s a high chance she is in fact rawdogging this and is not currently numbed
Do with that what you will Zosia angst luverz
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