Would you self-isolate if you were a danger to everyone else? (Poll)

[minacia]

In this setting, you were reincarnated in an isekai universe and have a strange curse.​

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Specifically, whenever you are within 100 meters of someone else, you drain their lifespan at twice the rate that you spend with them.​

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For example, if you spend 30 minutes with someone, you drain their lifespan by 1 hour. Meanwhile, your own natural lifespan increases by 30 minutes.​

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Anyhow, because of your curse, anyone who you spend a lot of time with will die young. Your parents died when you were a teenager, which made you painfully aware of the fact that anyone you love will die sooner if they spend time with you. You will even drain the lifespan of random strangers that you encounter on the street.​

1. Would you self-isolate because of your curse?

2. Would you tell people about your curse? For instance, imagine that you need to go to work. Would you tell your employer/co-worker that you have this life-draining curse?

3. Could you be satisfied with long-distance relationships? Specifically, could you love/marry be in a relationship with someone even though you can't physically live together?

4. If you were somebody else, would you want your classmate/co-worker to inform you that they have a passive curse that drains the life force of people around them? How would you react if you found out that they had this curse? Would you avoid them from now on?

 

[Kldran]

I already avoid people. I'm not convinced people would believe me if I tried to tell them I have a life draining curse though. I'd like to think such a thing would make it easier to convince people to leave me alone, but I have a feeling people would just assume I'm making shit up.

 

[FDSIO]

Pffff... That's not a curse... Just imagine spending a day in a crowded place and getting a year or two of lifespan... Draining just barely two days from different crowds of people for like a year and gaining several hundreds of years lifespan.

And living like a shut-in afterward muhahahaa... The ultimate shut-in skill!!!

EDIT:

Of spending a lot of time with people you dislike :)))

 

[minacia]

Of spending a lot of time with people you dislike :)))

That's already torture!

 

[CL]

New Jailor: "You're the immortal... What are those marks on the wall? Keeping track of the time?"
You: "No. These are all my jailors that have passed during my sentence."
New Jailor

 

[Nahrenne]

In this setting, you were reincarnated in an isekai universe and have a strange curse.​

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Specifically, whenever you are within 100 meters of someone else, you drain their lifespan at twice the rate that you spend with them.​

​

For example, if you spend 30 minutes with someone, you drain their lifespan by 1 hour. Meanwhile, your own natural lifespan increases by 30 minutes.​

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Anyhow, because of your curse, anyone who you spend a lot of time with will die young. Your parents died when you were a teenager, which made you painfully aware of the fact that anyone you love will die sooner if they spend time with you. You will even drain the lifespan of random strangers that you encounter on the street.​

1. Would you self-isolate because of your curse?

2. Would you tell people about your curse? For instance, imagine that you need to go to work. Would you tell your employer/co-worker that you have this life-draining curse?

3. Could you be satisfied with long-distance relationships? Specifically, could you love/marry be in a relationship with someone even though you can't physically live together?

4. If you were somebody else, would you want your classmate/co-worker to inform you that they have a passive curse that drains the life force of people around them? How would you react if you found out that they had this curse? Would you avoid them from now on?

In other words...a bit like a succubus/incubus but not necessarily the sexual part?
*tilts head*
'-'

Also, if there are curses does that mean that the world has magic?
If so, does this mean there is a way to remove the curse?
If there is, then I'd be searching for that.

1. It would be difficult to do if the radius is 100 metres due to not having the skills necessary to survive without others to provide for certain things like: sanitary products, food, drinks, clothes, etc...
Also, if this world had no internet it would be even harder to do since human contact would be needed to do transactions with.
orz

2. '-'
I'd have to have a job first...
orz
So...no idea.

3. Hmm...not forever. Humans are social creatures, so there would need to be some kind of physical contact with someone at some point.
orz

4. I mean...I've a friend who is convinced he has either a poltergeist/guardian angel with the amount of weird stuff that happens around him.
OwO
I still am not sure whether to believe him, or not...
So, I honestly don't know if I'd believe it if someone said they had such a curse, nor would I know how I'd react if I did believe it.

X

 

[Yorda]

4. I mean...I've a friend who is convinced he has either a poltergeist/guardian angel with the amount of weird stuff that happens around him.
OwO
I still am not sure whether to believe him, or not...
So, I honestly don't know if I'd believe it if someone said they had such a curse, nor would I know how I'd react if I did believe it.

X

I'm a villainess ... btw. Really really.

 

[Psychoturtle]

Step 1: buy a brightly coloured outfit
Step 2: Yeet myself at "evil" world leaders
Step 3: ?????
Step 4: Profit

 

[Capharas]

It's a bit difficult to answer for since birth, since someone who had a curse like that since birth might think entirely different about the issue than someone who gets it at some point in their life. When your own parents die and it is because of you, then the guilt might just be enough to end yourself or when you still want to live on, it won't be without some serious psychological trauma. Of course only if you aren't a pyschopath and you loved your parents.

Another thing to consider is that the curse it pretty slow at killing. Most people you have regular contact with, you don't spend the entire day with and if you are working or going to school, they will probably be outside the range a lot. Chances are most people you are around will lose less days then they spend with you.

Since the curse is so slow at killing, it is probably also easier to justify being selfish and while you might self isolate a lot of the time, you might also just indulge from time to time. This is heavily dependent on personality, social and material needs.

These are just some general thoughts, but most of it depends on your character (personality, life experiences, skills (not just the game system kind of skills). social contacts, ...) and the posibilities of your world and setting (culture, religion, view of death and life, ...).

 

[Deleted member 5560]

Luckily I feel like this qualifies as a disability so I could go on disability pension welfare in my country and self-isolate. I also have self isolated for the metaphorical life draining curse that is mental illness before so I already know the answer ahahahhaha.

 

[Laeyioun]

That's so sad. Socialites and people who long for affection won't take it well. For me, I'll just become an immortal (charlatan) sage and a strategist who can plan a thousand li away, and maybe have a mostly asexual, researcher (like those who devote their loves to it) partner who doesn't mind not being close to one another - a relationship/partnership built on trust, similarities, and mutual interests and benefits. If I can wholeheartedly trust the partner and people I get attached to, I can even devote my life to research sharing the lifespan for them, which by principle I will only receive from criminals, enemies, and scums. Sperm insemination or adoption for children! I can even get any disciples willing to tolerate my eccentricities, revamp the education system, and also get enshrined in history through contributing to society.

Of course, on the premise I can hide my powers while I'm still weak and if I can be cautious enough to survive.
And getting a important position in society and using magic/powers to interact with other people.

Hey, I can make a book with this premise xD

edit:
1. Yes I can self-isolate myself but still interact with the outside world through other means. Becoming a bounty hunter or vigilante too looks like a promising profession for such a power.
2. I would hide it when I don't have the influence or strength yet because I might get shunned or become a laboratory rat.
3. Yes, I can. But of course I will try to bypass it through loopholes, for example through letters, loyal messenger of mine, communication abilities, having avatars/clones/hologram projections.
4. I would still befriend and help that person if they aren't irreversibly crazy and/or a psychopath/sociopath. That power is too valuable and too interesting. But also I would avoid having direct interaction lest I suddenly die.

 

[minacia]

Hey, I can make a book with this premise xD

That would be awesome!

 

[Deleted member 29081]

I wouldn't avoid others. I'd be a threat that needs to be taken down with lethal force. Ain't no point in living a life where you're always alone and can't touch anyone.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

I would tell everyone who is important to me and let them decide whether to spend time with me or not. If the positions were reversed, there are certain people I love whom I would spend time with even if I knew I would die sooner because of it. Especially after my boyfriend died in 2015, I've learned that it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. We might want to live in separate houses and only sleep in the same bed on rare occasions like birthdays and holidays, though.

Hey . . . does this also mean I would give birth in half the time, and then I could send my babies off to live with their fathers? Can I just, like, pump breast milk and cook food for them to come pick up if they want to visit for a few minutes every day?

 

[BenJepheneT]

I'm already avoiding people, but at least I'm doing it for the greater good.

 

[Milk.Milkan]

1. Would you self-isolate because of your curse?

2. Would you tell people about your curse? For instance, imagine that you need to go to work. Would you tell your employer/co-worker that you have this life-draining curse?

3. Could you be satisfied with long-distance relationships? Specifically, could you love/marry be in a relationship with someone even though you can't physically live together?

4. If you were somebody else, would you want your classmate/co-worker to inform you that they have a passive curse that drains the life force of people around them? How would you react if you found out that they had this curse? Would you avoid them from now on?

1. Eeh, not really. Im not the type to survive alone so any kind of civilization shit would be helpful. I might leave a bit far away from towns though.

2. Eeh, nah. Im here to work and not to discuss the morality of the fact dat me working.

3. Det kind of relationship partner must be found and me being pseudo-isolated wont really help with dat. Friendship is ok though and spending a few hours in week together might be not so bad.

4. Would i like to know it? Probably not. But if a close friend of mine would say dat to me dan welp. "I guess ull treat me some cigarettes from now on huh, you unlucky bastard."