un: FLYHIGH

[asas]

hey my name is shōyō hinata, that’s 日向翔陽! there’s a lot of kanji about the sun and flying in it☀️🪶 i’m a pro volleyball player and i’m gonna be one of those night walkers. even if that really sounds like something you’d name a zombie, doesn’t it? why don’t they use THE FUN GUYS or WALKING ARCADE?

anyway if anyone needs a good time, i know exactly what you need! sports. it gives your brain the same amount of searatonin and dopemeen that doing nsfw stuff does so we’ll win big any way you look at!! 💪 [ searatonin and dopemeen are not typos. he doesn’t really remember how to type them correctly. head empty, only balls. ] i’ll play anything you’d like, even though volleyball’s what i know most about. i tried pretty much everything in middle school or saw it on tv so i know basics ⚽️🏀🏈🏉⚾️🎾🏓🏸🏒. beach volleyball too, i played for a couple years in rio. if you just want to talk or hug or hang out and not do sports stuff, i’m cool with that too. just uhhh not the nsfw stuff i guess. only if we hit it off, or something. like that. i’ve never been on a date before. oh, and i can do delivery gigs, too. i worked for ifood and ubereats for a while.

anyway i’m looking for a knife, how to use it and how to suplex someone in self defense as first payment for SPORTS, IFOOD or VOLLEYBALL (BEACH OR COURT!!!) but after that food and playing more sports is a fair trade. if you just want to hang out, duh, that’s free. we can be friends.

just send me a message through here or private anytime! might be a little slow on the sports still cuz my legs and bones are recovering, but i really need to move before i go rusty. obrigado! thank you! ありがとう!

Comments

[asas]

awesome
I’ll do whatever you tell me to
hey also do you think we can get a volleyball too?
it doesn’t have to be mikasa, anything i can receive or hit is going to be fine
no, great

[hearthebell]

I don't see why we can't. It's only fair if you're to be humoring me with a tennis match.

[asas]

YES
i didn’t know you played a sport, lazaro!!! so you hide all your buffness under those baggy clothes as a disguise, huh???

[hearthebell]

I'm not buff, I just happen to be a lot stronger than I look.

[He also admittedly was in better shape at the beginning of the Kira case than he was at the end. All that stress, all those long nights curled in a chair with no time to work on anything but the case has probably undone any conditioning he could previously maintain.

Maybe he also wants to get back on the horse, so to speak, and stop being reminded of the knowledge that Kira had taken all those pounds of flesh from him before the time came for a body bag.]

I'm looking forward to this, Shōyō.

[asas]

SAME
I’ll hit you up when I get the nets!

[asas]

WAIT I have a question!!

[asas]

actually someone else’s question but I dunno the answer and I’m like 99.999% sure you do

[asas]

why do humans make dopamine and serotonin?

[hearthebell]

I do know, but to be clear...are you asking the purpose, or the process?

[asas]

purpose
i don’t think i’ll get the process

[hearthebell]

They're neurotransmitters that are related to each other, but regulate different things in different ways.

[Simple terms. It's a skill to explain complex matters in a way that anyone can understand.]

Dopamine relays pleasure and rewards. It also helps the body move and coordinate. High levels of dopamine feel really good, so people might develop addictions to the substances or behaviors that make it spike.

Serotonin helps regulate hormonal processes, appetite, digestion, and moods.

The systems interact; for example, serotonin suppresses dopamine production, so if you have low levels of serotonin, your dopamine levels will be higher, and you'll be more likely to engage in behavior that keeps them high.

Think of serotonin as the responsible older brother with a stable job, and dopamine as the thrill-seeking younger brother who's a bad influence but has a lot of fun.

[asas]

ohhh ok

[ he read it and understood the words but put them all together and it was like trying to decipher mandarin. ]

i like dopamine best but I’ll respect serotonin

[hearthebell]

[Success? Maybe? It's hard to tell. Hopefully, he gets the general gist.]

Most people feel that way, I think.

[asas]

do you??
you kinda look like a serotonin guy…… but maybe i’m wrong, and you are secretly buff but your legs hide em
like squirrels

[hearthebell]

I like a thrill.

The problem with dopamine is that over time, it takes more stimulus to get the same rush.

[asas]

i don’t mind playing more volleyball
like isn’t that the best part??? your body gets stronger and your stamina builds up so you get to do more of it all the time!!

[hearthebell]

It's not always a good thing. It's a big part of why people overdose on drugs; it takes more to experience the same effects, even if it's enough to kill them.

[asas]

ohh wait, like,
when you play so much you get a fever and don’t realize it until you’re down?
that happened to me once, during my first high school national finals and i had to get benched > bedridden
but today i take care of myself!
my dopamine is from a healthy source and my serotonin is responsible 💪
say where do you get yours? csi stuff?

[hearthebell]

[He squints at the little bicep. Maybe emojis are the secret to more effective communication over text.]

Something like that. 🧠 🔎

Anything can be addictive if it makes you feel good and releases dopamine. ⚠️ 💣 I guess it just depends on how toxic ☠️ or dangerous something is to start with. ⏱️

Knowing that chemical happiness has so much power over us is actually overwhelmingly depressing, some days. 😂 😂 😂

[asas]

ahhh!!!!! you uses emojis!!! i can see what you mean!! 😃

[ he can understand him better!! amazing, what boomers can learn— ]

we’re just a bunch of chemical reactions, right? i don’t remember much about chemistry but coach would say the same thing about volleyball.

[hearthebell]

It's going well, isn't it? 👺 I don't know why I've never tried them before.🦿

Do you think that's all we are? 💄 There are world religions with premises that would crumble at the notion that there isn't something metaphysical to rely on when our bodies fail us. 🦞

☂️ 🦴 🤪 🤖 👻

[asas]

[ 👺🦿💄 is going through shōyō’s mind now quizzically. wait, what do those mean? what does the shrimp mean? what does it mean . . . . is it a cryptic signal? a boomer message from beyond the words of wisdom?

]

oh, like our spirits! i thought that was chemical too
but i believe it
my body couldn’t move sometimes and something in there was always like “just a little bit more!!”, and it would always go that little extra even when it shouldn’t be able to
it’s kind of crazy

[hearthebell]

[It's 100% that L is an odd guy who is more or less picking the ones he likes, without consideration for context (or, at least, consideration for a highly specific context that he alone understands.)

He notes that Shōyō no longer seems to be using the emojis. As he did originally, he follows suit.]

I suppose it's the idea of a god, or that life goes on after death. Maybe the comfort people take in the idea is chemical; in fact, it would have to be.

It's not crazy. Adrenaline pushes us further than we're ordinarily able to go when we really need it; when you hear about a woman who was able to lift her car to save her trapped child, that's the reason for it.

[asas]

like heaven or nosso lar! and that we come back after a while
makes sense since living is so great but that’s why i think about living first

adrenaline is still crazy to think about!! our bodies are really amazing
i got this book on the biomechanics of volleyball and i didn’t get the tables with the numbers but there were charts and how each part and your center of gravity/posture effects your hit or an injury
we’re like
robots
but better than robots

[hearthebell]

I always consider that to be distinct from living a life normally, and to properly honor the promise of eternal happiness, heaven would have to be a complete overload of dopamine that lasts forever, and then I find myself exhausted by the thought exercise.

You sound just like someone young who believes he'll live forever. It's even more impressive because I know that your life has been threatened, in recent memory even.