The Realm of Literacy

I'd also like to add that being unable to feel things is a real disease. gehayi commented on beautifully here, and I highly recommend reading it. For those who don't or can't though, the upshot is that being unable to feel things in reality causes a ton of health-related issues. You don't know if you've sliced your finger open with a knife, or if you're cutting off the circulation in your leg the way you're sitting, or if your skin is being burnt. And because you can't feel it, you don't know those things are happening, so you don't see medical treatment. You constantly need to check yourself over. In the typical Mary Sue fashion though, Patch isn't given any of those drawbacks. That he can't feel if he needs to go to the bathroom or not? Never brought up. That he could be shanked and not notice that he's bleeding to death? Apparently can't happen, seeing as he doesn't have a human body. Fitzpatrick had a fine set-up for a genuine reason for Patch to hate having no sense of feeling, and it's almost completely ignored.


Now I can't stop picturing that Patch here is like the character from Stieg Larsson's "Millenium Trilogy" who had this disease..and who also happened to be a complete monster. Auuuugh.