small question

[obliviscere]

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Sender ID: obliviscere (Namine)
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This might be a very personal question to ask like this, so nobody needs to feel like they have to answer but...

I was wondering if anyone's ever had a power that they've been uncomfortable with? How did you get over it? Do you think powers that do 'bad' things can be good?

Just curious! And also not related to that but I'd like to make some care packages for those islands in need. Any suggests for good food for them?

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text; un: sunbursted

[sunbursted]

[ it's a funny question given the user name her shellphone has on it. sunbursted, like a reminder of her sunburst spell. the one that could have... but it reminds her of percy. and a bit of herself. ]

I think it depends on the ability and how it's used. A friend of mine back home had some abilities that he got from a demon and they made him kind of scary. But he used them to help save the world. Mostly. My powers are all nature-based but I've used them... I've done some things I'm not proud of. Thought they were good, thought I was being cool. But I hurt people in the way that I used them.

I don't know if that helps.

[obliviscere]

I don't really know much about demons, but I can't imagine they'd want someone to use their powers to help save the world. I'd have thought they'd have wanted him to use them for their own goals or something.

[ so she can't help but wonder if that meant he went against what this demon wanted and if that was hard to do. ]

Did you only hurt people? Or did whatever you did do some good?

[sunbursted]

oh, no, his was totally for a vengeance streak. But then we severed his connection to the demon and he still had those powers. He just put them to better use. With less weird yelling or gruesome shots.

[ it's complicated and keyleth isn't doing the best job of telling that story. her mind briefly remembers tiberius and his fireball habit, but she pushes that to the side for now. that's even more complicated than percy. ]

No, I use my powers all the time to help. Heal. Pull people out of harm's way. Just... sometimes if I don't think about what I'm doing... a helpful vine trying to pull someone to safety might hurt them instead. Or a bright ball of radiant light might... damage people who are too close.

My point is... even good spells or abilities can be used for bad things. Maybe the same is true in reverse.

[obliviscere]

Oh. That's not so good, vengeance I mean. Although I guess something really bad had to have happened to him for him to think about dealing with someone bad like a demon.

[ so, she's not going to judge him at all. ]

oh! I understand. It sounds like you have to use a lot of concentration and precision for your powers.

Maybe you have a point and I just need to try to figure out what the good use could be.