small question

[obliviscere]

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Sender ID: obliviscere (Namine)
To: everyone!
Subject: Question
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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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[obliviscere]

Oh, it's only fair to be asked in return.
I thought it might be obvious my own answer would be yes. I wanted a bit of advice I guess.

[tilfrosset]

I used to think my ability had no beneficial merit to it. All I knew was that it caused immense hurt and pain, destruction and death, and all I could see was what I had ruined. Either by choice or force.

[For the longest, Jill had naively believed she had a choice: either do what she was told or others would suffer. She was but a young fool.]

I can't change my past, but at the very least, I can use it keep those I care for safe. Even at the risk of my own safety.

[Because with being a Dominant, comes the inevitable slow burn of petrification and soon enough, death.]

[obliviscere]

What is your ability?

[tilfrosset]

I'm what they call a Dominant in my world. It means I was born with the ability, perhaps one could say the responsibility, to command something called an Eikon at will.

[It's the second time this week Jill has been so open about herself, but at least this time, the conversation is less irritating.]

To be brief, since I suspect I know what your next question will be, an Eikon is an all powerful being. Think great deities that can take shape for whatever and whenever their Dominant desires.

[obliviscere]

So there's a lot of things you can do with yours?

[tilfrosset]

Unfortunately. Fortunately.

Depends on who you ask.

[obliviscere]

You don't really like talking about it, do you?

[tilfrosset]

It used to be so, but...

I've committed some horrific transgressions with my power in the past. Ended innocent lives. Left destruction in my wake. If you ask those people, they would be the ones to say unfortunately. And I cannot find it in myself to blame them.

My friends? Those who have become family to me? They'd say the opposite.

[obliviscere]

I understand. I did some terrible things with my powers. I would have never blamed the people hurt by it for thinking I'm terrible.

They never have for some reason though. They've never blamed me.