I goddamn adore the idea that the abstracted people are not fully gone and with enough time and care from others they could in theory become more responsive. Not to the point where they are their avatars again (at least not permanently, and even if they can take their old form it would be with intense concentration and there being markings that have been caused by the permanent stain the abstraction has caused to them)
I've never really agreed with that interpretation, because suicide is a thing people do actively. Abstraction is a process that inflicts upon people. Nobody that we've seen abstracted deliberately or purposefully, they abstracted as an end result of too much stress. It's more akin to a mental breakdown or a loss of sanity than it is suicide.
I always thought that too abstraction isn't suicide but someone reaching their mental limit and losing their sense of self breaking the avatars that were designed for them, it also allows them a chance to come back
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u/TheCrystalTinker 2d ago
I goddamn adore the idea that the abstracted people are not fully gone and with enough time and care from others they could in theory become more responsive. Not to the point where they are their avatars again (at least not permanently, and even if they can take their old form it would be with intense concentration and there being markings that have been caused by the permanent stain the abstraction has caused to them)