Haptics
How much you physically feel. Turn it up and every bump, vibration, and ache registers. Turn it down and the pain, tension, and discomfort fade into the background.
Charlie and the Funeral He Almost Skipped
Haptics controls how much someone physically and emotionally feels. Charlie had spent years with his haptics dialed way down — military training explicitly atrophied his empathy centers, as he put it, because feeling too much is considered a liability in combat roles. At the funeral, sitting in the back row next to steel-faced SEALs, the sound of Zelma sobbing turned his haptics back up without his permission. He got lightheaded when he learned Eddie had died by suicide. His body registered what his training told him to suppress.