The tiny creature psychically devours sorrow and doubt

>the tiny creature psychically devours sorrow and doubt

>but this also means that the target feels less sorrow and doubt, for a moderate time after the feeding

Would people carry the tiny critters around?

Only when the amount of sorrow or doubt being experienced is disproportionately innapropriate for my experience.
For example: whilst feeling depressed.

Is there a negative effect to them? Do the negative feelings come back after a time or are they gone for good? Do they just eat the sensation, or do they eat the memories of where the feelings originate?

For example, if I am mourning the loss of my mother, would these things just make me apathetic, or would they make me forget my mother entirely. Otherwise these sound like something nice to bring with you.

If it looks like a cute animal or something, sure. If it looks like a living nightmare and drools acid probably not

Is the tiny creature a little girl? Because the doll doesn't look like it's alive in that picture.

It would be used as a drug.

Doctors would give them to the clinically depressed to level their psyches. Others experiencing normal levels of sorrow/doubt might become addicted to the happiness and confidence the creatures provide. Wizards/Priests/Corporations would experiment to develop mutant creatures that could feed on fear or anger or self-determination.

Depending on how intelligent the creatures are, they might be farmed in massive numbers or bred specially, or have rights as intelligent companions or pets. The creatures might even have engineered the current situation themselves, forcing their way into a symbiotic or parasitic relationship with their hosts.

They'd probably be symbols of status while poorly understood and showed off among nobles earlier in history, then moved to a major business as civilization figures out the rules to them.

You could go a lot of ways with these things- you might get Tamagotchis, you might get nightmares. Have fun with this setting.

Let's be honest, we'd rip it apart to analyze it and use it's psychic powers refined into potions or pills or something instead and sell it as a designer drug.

Wait is OP not referring to the loli

Because this topic is a lot less fun if he isn't, my chronic downer of a paladin would love to carry around a loli that kept his spirits up.

Luna is the fucking worst.

Forte is best big sis.

>eventually, "owning" one is mandatory, as they become more and more adept at sucking out the bad feelings that make society not work and everyone becomes convinced of their necessity

>religious leaders oppose this vehemently on the grounds that you need to be able to fear to be in awe of the power of [insert god here]
>other dissenters point out that fear, anger, and sadness are normal parts of the human experience - if we can't cry when our parents die, or flee in terror from natural disasters or derailed trains, or get angry when wild animals attack us, or wince in disgust at rotten meat, what kind of people are we?