No, but is ignorance an excuse? There's that adage about intent versus impact.
[ he's not offended or seeming affected by the tension. menacing, arrogant, capable — unfortunately all true, blended in with other negative qualities and a high-stress environment, a naturally tumultuous age. deny intervention or oversight, and that's how to make a powder keg. ]
[ it's not like he doesn't know it; he can feel each granule of gunpowder stacking up. ]
We all have curse energy, [ blue energy sparks and scribbles frenetically in two snapped fingers between them, briefly highlighting the sallowing features of his face up in cyan, there and gone again. Scott can only see it because of the hotel's interference. ] But only sorcerers can harness it to fight. For normal people, it's like a negative emotions' sludge that runs off and collects itself together. That's the main way— curses, ghosts. They're formed by the depressed and frustrated masses who outnumber us exponentially.
[ an unavoidable problem. maybe not a mutant, but the parallel is readily present. emphatic in his point, he looks at Scott again, measured between curiosity and accusation: ]
It's an endless marathon where you watch the ones running next to you die. What am I supposed to do?
no subject
[ he's not offended or seeming affected by the tension. menacing, arrogant, capable — unfortunately all true, blended in with other negative qualities and a high-stress environment, a naturally tumultuous age. deny intervention or oversight, and that's how to make a powder keg. ]
[ it's not like he doesn't know it; he can feel each granule of gunpowder stacking up. ]
We all have curse energy, [ blue energy sparks and scribbles frenetically in two snapped fingers between them, briefly highlighting the sallowing features of his face up in cyan, there and gone again. Scott can only see it because of the hotel's interference. ] But only sorcerers can harness it to fight. For normal people, it's like a negative emotions' sludge that runs off and collects itself together. That's the main way— curses, ghosts. They're formed by the depressed and frustrated masses who outnumber us exponentially.
[ an unavoidable problem. maybe not a mutant, but the parallel is readily present. emphatic in his point, he looks at Scott again, measured between curiosity and accusation: ]
It's an endless marathon where you watch the ones running next to you die. What am I supposed to do?