twbasketcase-blog:

LMFAO I have rped Jono for a number of years now, and this headcanon has evolved and changed and sometimes I laugh because it’s so melodramatic. That makes me horribly mean, I know 😉

But I guess my line of thinking is this: back when I was a baby college student and getting into health care, we were doing lots of bio labs on human functions and sensations (urine, temperature, nerves, autopsies, that kind of thing) and we once did this test on our nerves that included pain, heat, cold, and nothingness. The way our nerves bundle, you can sometimes only feel one sensation at a time in certain areas, but other times you are sensitive to more than one. It was kind of neat, actually! They are all separate sensations that are felt.

We know Jono can feel pain because he’s gotten his arse kicked a number of times now, lol. We also know that he can experience pleasure because…well, why else would he have had sex with Sugar (yeah, he was still emo about it, but he obviously enjoyed the intimacy or else wouldn’t have stuck around to be blatantly used).

So I think there’s definitely some chance of feeling temperature there as well! Problem is, he doesn’t have proper circulation so I doubt there are often times when he is hot (if ever). Hell, if he got hot he would have had many more problems in that issue where they were stranded on the ocean or w/e and Ange was practically melting hahaha. Technically, his body is a husk that sort of contains his psychic entity-ness. However, it does prove to have LIMITED human function in various areas, so I like to play with that!

I also liked to pretend that the reason his parents always send him socks for Christmas is because he constantly whines about his feet being cold (same reason he would wear gloves all the time, too; your limbs are peripheral and the furthest away from the body’s trunk and therefore most sensitive to temperature sensations). I’ve expanded on that in writing before where basically his buddies just spoil him with sweaters, socks, and blankets for Christmas and birthdays. 🙂

(though, to be honest, the dead/nothingness idea really intrigues me too and I think that’s got some HUGELY interesting psychology attached to it!)

Ooooh. I like.