It can be, yeah. It's not like you see their every single waking moment or anything, but if you're trying too hard to conceal something, you'll mentally dredge it up for the other to see. Kind of like trying to lie on a lie detector, but you're getting worked up, so you suck at it?
It's why you have to be a perfect unit. If you can't synchronize, you can't drift.
[He hesitates, something twisting unpleasantly in his stomach. He looks at the spot on the handkerchief he'd just used, painted in drops of blood. Sometimes, he swears he can see the blue afterglow imprinted in his eyes; he can feel that terrifying rush of emotion, see himself cowering in fear from Otachi's long, illuminating tongue. I found you, Newton Geiszler. He swallows hard, and pushes back the strange, unpleasant thought of, drifting with a Kaiju is like riding a rollercoaster. He loves rollercoasters.
Stop, what? No, it was fucking scary, Newt. Get a grip.]
In a way, it makes a relationship you can't have any other way. A kind of — sharing of lives from a perspective no one else can see? But you know, it's probably healthier to have your own thoughts to yourself.
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It's why you have to be a perfect unit. If you can't synchronize, you can't drift.
[He hesitates, something twisting unpleasantly in his stomach. He looks at the spot on the handkerchief he'd just used, painted in drops of blood. Sometimes, he swears he can see the blue afterglow imprinted in his eyes; he can feel that terrifying rush of emotion, see himself cowering in fear from Otachi's long, illuminating tongue. I found you, Newton Geiszler. He swallows hard, and pushes back the strange, unpleasant thought of, drifting with a Kaiju is like riding a rollercoaster. He loves rollercoasters.
Stop, what? No, it was fucking scary, Newt. Get a grip.]
In a way, it makes a relationship you can't have any other way. A kind of — sharing of lives from a perspective no one else can see? But you know, it's probably healthier to have your own thoughts to yourself.