Is Zero...special?

[Necrotica]

But friendship is not a foreign concept to voidsent. Just Zero.

Zero is weird among voidsent. The only one who seems to have trouble interacting with others.

[sidurgu-12]

But friendship is not a foreign concept to voidsent. Just Zero.

Zero is weird among voidsent. The only one who seems to have trouble interacting with others.

Voidsent friendship seems to be centered around "food" rather than bonds so interacting with a group built around bonds would make her seem weird in comparison. plus the duo in her domain seem to be outliers in the thirteenth.

[kaynide]

Voidsent friendship seems to be centered around "food" rather than bonds so interacting with a group built around bonds would make her seem weird in comparison. plus the duo in her domain seem to be outliers in the thirteenth.

Just to add to what you’ve said:

I have yet to see a pair of Voidsent that have a relationship I would classify as friendship. Even the two that appeared to be friends merely stuck together because the other option was both die due to lack of an aether source.

I stand by what I said on page 1; except for Zero sheltering the few dregs in her domain for seemingly no self gain, we have yet to meet a voidsent that acts altruistically.

[Zero-ELEC]

Keep in mind the only Voidsent that seem to form familial or friendship based relationships are those that basically live in the Source full time. The Gruffs (Papa, Mama, and Little), Ultros and Typhon, the Continental Circus, gaelicat clowders, etc. Ones that no longer have to worry about the transactionality that rules voidsent lives as they're now self sustaining due to the non-Darkness aspected realm of the Source.

[Alleluia]

But friendship is not a foreign concept to voidsent. Just Zero.

Zero is weird among voidsent. The only one who seems to have trouble interacting with others.

True, she is. I don't think it has to do with any medical condition, though. Unless you count partial amnesia or purposeful self-deception as a medical condition.

We know Y'shtola considers Zero's response about how she avoided becoming like other voidsent to be sus from her "... Is that so?" reaction to it. I am guessing one of the above is the reason for that. And if Zero isn't even remembering everything about herself or her past (due to suppressing it or w/e) then not remembering what a friend is isn't too far fetched. B/c as others have said, actual friendship isn't really present much in the 13th, it seems.

As for the Gruffs, and arguably the other members of the Halloween troupe, they have been on the Source and interacting with Source culture and people for quite a while. And they were all normal people once, themselves. Being in the Source's environment, free of the pressures the 13th has, has probably allowed them to develop socially enough to create things that look more like a family unit. And even as it is, one could argue the Halloween troupe is a kind of mobile domain with the orange pumpkin headed guy as its leader.