05-13-2025, 06:55 PM
apropos of nothing, i think i am just going to decide for myself that Resonating is very much a two-way street and the reason our gal gets all murder-vamp around Sylus is because we just fall into his mindset, because we're constantly trying to vibrate on his wavelength even if we don't realize it (and even when we couldn't do the big connect).
like, our girl is just always trying to matchy-match her environment - she gets into an argument with a fruit-seller over the price of apples and two minutes in, she's Resonating at him without meaning to and even without an evol to hook into, her personality shifts that tiny bit towards 'haggling fish-wife'.
which would, extrapolating for five more seconds, mean that the LARGEST personality with the STRONGEST evol in her vicinity is going to dictate how far the personality warp/merge goes.
/just thinking, don't mind me.
FURTHER FURTHER thought -- the stronger we get, the more we warp everybody around us to match what we want them to be. :D Sylus probably doesn't need to worry, but Zayne might have to plant his feet a little harder.
going to have to hand wave the high-tech micromacro-evol thing myself i guess - its ugly, honestly. if you have a mutant superpower, how the FUCK HECK do you stick it into a gadget at all? they just shouldn't have use the word 'evol' there, and just made it a flat out gadget with heading-for-dark-gray ethical considerations.
again, extrapolating out to world building, that would probably means anybody with an evol that can protect against brain modification (null-shield/field evol?) would be in high demand across all business corporations in both underground and overworld settings. maybe part of corporate espionage is getting rid of the pesky secretary with the dampening field, or bribing them to stop at the crucial moment of the negotations. oooh, Inception!
like, our girl is just always trying to matchy-match her environment - she gets into an argument with a fruit-seller over the price of apples and two minutes in, she's Resonating at him without meaning to and even without an evol to hook into, her personality shifts that tiny bit towards 'haggling fish-wife'.
which would, extrapolating for five more seconds, mean that the LARGEST personality with the STRONGEST evol in her vicinity is going to dictate how far the personality warp/merge goes.
/just thinking, don't mind me.
FURTHER FURTHER thought -- the stronger we get, the more we warp everybody around us to match what we want them to be. :D Sylus probably doesn't need to worry, but Zayne might have to plant his feet a little harder.
going to have to hand wave the high-tech micromacro-evol thing myself i guess - its ugly, honestly. if you have a mutant superpower, how the FUCK HECK do you stick it into a gadget at all? they just shouldn't have use the word 'evol' there, and just made it a flat out gadget with heading-for-dark-gray ethical considerations.
again, extrapolating out to world building, that would probably means anybody with an evol that can protect against brain modification (null-shield/field evol?) would be in high demand across all business corporations in both underground and overworld settings. maybe part of corporate espionage is getting rid of the pesky secretary with the dampening field, or bribing them to stop at the crucial moment of the negotations. oooh, Inception!
