@Scrounge  
it will be unpleasant (it’s scary if they reach the point that it doesn’t bother them at all) but again immortals would be screwed up if they reach ‘time abyss’ status (according to tvtropes 5,000 years old is the minimum), and they can remember each and every moment they spent with their friends and loved ones (mostly if they’re reminiscing memories to their current friends/loved ones and they can’t relate).

@OptimusPrimevil  
I can’t help but think that even if they do become desensitized, it’ll still be unpleasant losing someone just because they no longer have that person they cared about around

@441TheSecond  
yes there’s that but eventually (i’m thinking very long term, like 300 years or more) time will erase/distort things for others that you’ll feel out of place
 
random pony:“princess sparkle, what is this…‘disco’ you keep talking about?”
 
 
@easyboy  
i’ve got an experience in cumulative loss in a short period of time, which yes would make one a bit apathetic. i guess for immortals, it depends on how close they were to the individuals and how they deal with loss. an interesting example would be the the highlander anime where the protagonist spent centuries after the antagonist that even the antagonist pities the protag for wasting his life living like that.

@RaineV1  
It probably still bothers them, just not as much.

@easyboy  
This is pretty much why I don’t think death bothers Celestia and Luna anymore. It’s just part of the routine for others to die.

@OptimusPrimevil  
It is consistent in psychology that repeated exposure to a negative stimulus reduces it’s traumatic effects on an individual so simply experiencing loss more isn’t cumulative unless it was within a very brief time window.

@441TheSecond  
The perception of time, even in dreams, is based in real time whether you live 20 years or 100. If one of the princesses had accelerated time experience it would either be because of brain damage, or the deliberate use of some (probably made up) meditation technique.  
No evidence exists for someone experiencing time at different rates than normal simply because of age/youth.

@OptimusPrimevil  
Hey, that’s what written registry is for, right?

While not on the same scale, I moved around a lot as a kid. So eventually, I stopped working so hard to form friendships with people, knowing I would have to leave them in 1-2 years. But everyone reacts differently. I know people who moved around a lot who were super friendly and outgoing because they knew they only had a short time to spend with these people. I assume immortality would affect individuals in a similar way, with them knowing they would outlive their friends. Some may be emotionally distant, while others may be extremely outgoing.

@441TheSecond  
i think it’s worse the older the immortal gets, because usually i don’t encounter stories of immortals having eidetic memories so the longer they live, the higher the chance they’re forgetting or misremembering stuff.

@OptimusPrimevil  
Personally, I think that would make them accept the deaths of their loved ones without grief.
 
I dunno, maybe I’m just sick of that trope because it’s used all the time.

@TheAbridgenator  
Honestly, the whole “your perception of time would speed up to unfathomable levels” thing seems rather contrived.
 
Thing is, we just don’t have any immortals to prove that theory, as far as we know, human perception of time caps out at a certain point before people start popping in and out of your life.

@441TheSecond  
i think it’s the accumulated cycle of bonding-death-bonding-death-repeat that will eventually wear down the immortal emotionally. it would hurt the first hundred times (depending on the immortal) but would reach a time that death becomes just a part of the cycle that there’s no grieving anymore

@441TheSecond  
See, I basically feel the same way, but I think the real issue would be that, as time went by, the relationships and sadness would go by faster until she had no reference point anymore and wound up in the same spot.

So you’d rather live an entire existence of solitude and loneliness until the dead heat of the universe, than have years of joy and companionship followed by a few months of sadness?
 
See, this is why I don’t sympathize with the immortal plight of “Wah, everybody that I love will die before me”, so what, I’d rather have short periods of joy interlaced with smaller moments of sorrow than an entire meaningless existence.