Heart level

PROTIP: To increase Chris' heart level to 100%, simply be female and say "hello" to him. Males may attempt heart-recovery by announcing exciting new Sonichu Game development efforts, but this doesn't work as reliably.

“	Actually, it is Moderate and Stable at the moment.	”
Chris, 17 May 2010

This is a real rarity.

This happens all the time.

This sounds about right.

Heart level is Chris's measure of his emotional state. Because Chris has spent his life playing video games instead of socializing with actual people, he is only able to express his emotions in video game-inspired terms. It first appeared in Sub-Episode 2: The Rise & Fall of My Heart (where it hit its lowest recorded level, 15%) but he uses the term in general conversation as well.

Chris uses the word "shattered" exclusively to describe his perpetually wounded heart level. He has never even used the more common expression, "broken heart".

Heart level was also helpfully displayed on CWCipedia front page, as a diabolical variation of Wikipedia's stress meters. Well... it would have been a diabolical variation, but apparently Chris was too lazy to change it, making it merely slightly lame. Despite leaving an obvious default placeholder message on the front page, he still felt comfortable showing this fantastic website to potential investors/employers.

“	100% Change the number to change your heart level and you can write a sentence to indicate how you feel.	”
CWCipedia administration describing how Chris feels in August 2008!

Gallery

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References by Chris

• CWC's Diary includes similar remarks on the Walsh encounter: "I am very devastated, due to my SHATTERED HEART that XXXXX caused unto me!"
• Sonichu's News Dash includes a couple of complaints about heart-shattering in relation to the Walsh and Hanna incidents.
• Sub-Episode 2, finished in April 2005, features the illustrated heart level as part of Chris's tale of his ill-fated date with Hanna.
• The August 2006 updates to Chris's Story of My Current Days talk about the fluctuating level of Chris's shattered heart in the section covering the Hanna date. The same document also has a memorable remark on Mary Lee Walsh's destruction of the Attraction Sign: "IT WAS SERIOUS HEART-SHATTERING INSULTS LIKE THAT WHICH LITERALLY SHATTERED MY HEART TO ALMOST NOTHING AND MURDERED MY SOUL!"
• A 2007 e-mail to Megan surely didn't creep her out in the slightest: "If I lost you... it would TOTALLY SHATTER my heart, my soul, my being."
• In a Facebook message from January 2008, Chris bills himself as "Christian W. Chandler, a lonely Autistic, heart-shattered sap."
• Another Facebook message of January 2008 says "My heart is recovering very slowly; it's at like 15% [...] The lonliness hurts the remaining 85% of my heart sadly."
• On his Wikipedia userpage, in its account of his feud with Mary Lee Walsh, Chris complains that "MY HEART WAS SHATTERED that very moment."
• C.W.C. - Thank You :), a curious video from the midst of the Liquid Chris fiasco, includes an apology to Mary Lee Walsh. Among other things, Chris says, "I forgive you for your misdeed of Heart-Shattering."
• Despite this, in his 2010 posts on the Sonichu Forum, Chris was hung up on Walsh's shattering of his heart.

See Also

• Scale of Respect