Talk:Highway to Hell/@comment-80.189.143.57-20150627191934

I reckon Highway to Hell would still work if Xander McQueen tried to kill himself via starvation (although it might only be when the starvation in question becomes fatal), since Highway to Hell deals with suicide while Lovers seems to just amplify pain signals in its victim's brain in through the hypothalamus, as Kakyoin notes), since it seems that the intent is more important than what the user is experiencing (pain or weakening otherwise).

Otherwise, Ermes would be literally experiencing everything that McQueen is, even if he tripped into a bush full of stinging neetles or accidentally got hit by a bus (although, since we never really saw scenarios like that and the situations of pain we did see in which McQueen got himself into were always intentional for the purposes of killing himself, this is all just conjecture).