… Yeah, that’d do it. I can think of some slimy bastards who’ve perfected it in like 60. Imagine what they could do with hundreds of years to keep getting slimier.
He sent me out on a mission to retrieve more palismen. Said he needed them to manage his... "curse." [Said with an eye roll.] Obviously, I failed and he wasn't too happy about that.
Oh, he'd do more than that. [He huffs out a laugh, tiredly. He craves regicide.] I found out he'd been lying to me— about our family, the Titan, wild magic, everything. And when I confronted him, he tried to kill me. I couldn't go back to the castle after that, so I just... ran away. I guess.
Pretty much. But I don't wanna think about what I would have done if he hadn't tried to kill me then, or what would've happened if I never found out what he was planning, so...
[sometimes... you care too much about your crazy ass uncle and have to get smacked in the face by the truth. unfortunate. he shrugs!]
You thinking rhetorically, or do you actually want an answer to that? [ because he can guess how things could’ve gone, on a surface level. ]
Sometimes people are great manipulators. And they know what heartstrings to tug on to get their own way. Then if that doesn’t work — fear, threats and violence work just as well.
Because he's a human witch hunter. Bloody Mary called him a religious fanatic. He got stuck in the isles one day and thought it was his duty to burn it all down.
… Bloody Mary’s probably right. If he hates a group of people that much he’d be willing to kill them, and thinks it’s some higher power given duty, then yeah. He’s a lot of crayons short of a full set.
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[ok NOW in the right place: ]
What was he so mad about?
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If he was gonna throw a fit about it he could do his own curse managing expedition.
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[He huffs.]
... It doesn't matter, anyway. I got to leave the castle during missions, so it wasn't always so bad.
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Pretty deep in that cult then, were you? [ it's not an accusation. just an observation. ]
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... Well, yeah. I was in the coven for as long as I can remember. It was basically all I knew until I met my friends.
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And you weren't allowed to go out and explore and figure stuff out on your own until then.
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But I did figure things out. Eventually. So it all worked out in the end.
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[ good. ]
How’d you get away from it then? That guy seemed like the sort of person who’d shred a letter of resignation and tell you you couldn’t go anywhere…
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… [ closes his eyes. ] Right, so a total tyrant. And a murderous asshole. Sounds like you didn’t have a choice but to run.
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[sometimes... you care too much about your crazy ass uncle and have to get smacked in the face by the truth. unfortunate. he shrugs!]
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Sometimes people are great manipulators. And they know what heartstrings to tug on to get their own way. Then if that doesn’t work — fear, threats and violence work just as well.
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What's the point? Like "oh no, feeling a little down today, might mass murder an island"?
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[his profile says puritans dni for a reason.]
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[He sighs.]
At least most humans aren't like that anymore.
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[ ... ] And, yeah. No kidding. You need to keep crazy an arms length away.
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