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>>6745758

>I sorta get what you’re saying, because Youkai no doubt experience some more advanced emoitions due to their being on this earth for so long. But emotions are usually variations of their more primitive counterparts. Your example of love, say, can be crudely understood in the context of a yearning for said object of affection, for whatever reason. Of course, it becomes much more difficult when one doesn’t even understand the concept of yearning, but the fact that are able to speak the same language, and even comprehend some of the more difficult concepts via it, leaves me with no doubt that we are well beyond that stage.

That isn't quite what I meant. Youkai thought processes are not alien due to being long-lived, they're due to *not being human*. Even in absence of their age, they think differently.

>So how has living so long influenced your way of thinking?

I don't think it actually has that much effect. A lot of humans in the outside world seem convinced that immortality would have horrible effects on the psyche -- I've never seen such a thing to be true. Of the magicians I've seen achieve immortality and Youkai status, I've never seen a very dramatic change.

I've seen some people fall into a sort of midlife crisis as they wonder what exactly they should be doing with their lives, but that's not really different from what sometimes happens to ordinary humans.