Desensitization therapy. Useful in nearly all areas of trauma, it helps one's mind create positive pathways and good associations with things you normally struggle with. The most popular use is for arachnophobia.
Consider this me handing you a tarantula everytime you're in my office.
As you should. With any tarantula, really - most are very affectionate and easily frightened, after all. Did you know they have small, little paws? Not too unlike a cat's.
[... Sorry, Eva. He's thinking about spiders, now.]
Well... yes, I suppose this is true - and you know I would be greatly appreciative of such a thing, as well. But... I don't know. I feel as if I ask too much of your shapeshifting as is...
I can see it being an issue if I got it into my head that you only wanted to do it when I was a bug or a spider, but you've made it very very clear you are wildly attracted to me all the time, so that won't be a problem for us.
Maybe if you hadn't regaled me with literal poetry, but by now I'm pretty confident you're into me as a person. And I don't mind indulging you sometimes with my shapeshifting, you indulge me just as much.
Ol Siaion, if I enjoyed it, then it isn't indulging you. It's indulging us both, together. Truly, to say I'm "indulging" you makes it sound as if I'm merely humoring you...
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
[Healthy dialogue! No murders!]
no subject
He'd rather saw his horns off without an analgesic than hurt her, at this point.]
Thank you. That's all I want.
But, you know... this means I am going to start offering you help regularly, you realize.
no subject
no subject
The most popular use is for arachnophobia.
Consider this me handing you a tarantula everytime you're in my office.
no subject
no subject
Did you know they have small, little paws? Not too unlike a cat's.
[... Sorry, Eva. He's thinking about spiders, now.]
no subject
...Spiders aren't on any of the animal transformation lists. I could probably do a spider if I practiced long enough.
no subject
Not a single spider at all?
[Said with his face absolutely twisting in shock and dismay at the idea, obviously.]
...
You would do that for me?
no subject
no subject
But... I don't know. I feel as if I ask too much of your shapeshifting as is...
no subject
no subject
Admittedly, that was my biggest worry... that asking you for such things may convince you otherwise, somehow.
But it isn't the shapes that I am here for. It's you. No matter the shape you take.
no subject
no subject
Don't you?
no subject
…If I mention the songbird thing as an example, you’re going to laugh, aren’t you.
no subject
Ol Siaion, if I enjoyed it, then it isn't indulging you. It's indulging us both, together.
Truly, to say I'm "indulging" you makes it sound as if I'm merely humoring you...
no subject