RE: The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5
02-16-2022, 12:27 PM
>Burnside: You're glad Rebecca is coming back around to your way of thinking. You have so much to teach her about being unseelie! Like how to skin people alive and wear their hides like a flesh suit!
>Rebecca: Oh yeah, you forgot for a moment that Burnside makes being Unseelie sound horrible and disgusting. Is there any other way to be Unseelie without skinning people and getting covered in guts?
>Burnside: Not unless she wants to do it right?
>Adler: Technically yes, but seriously, is this truly the path Rebecca wants to go down? You remember when She first stumbled into this stone circle, how she was openly concerned for her father's safety when you temporarily turned him into a poodle and how she was horrified when she thought you had killed those Bunkirk thugs when it was only elfshot. She was worried about them even though she claimed to hate them. This doesn't sound like someone destined to be unseelie. Based on what you've heard her say, her life in Bunkirk was so repressed that she left looking for an outlet, but she's veering too far over to the other extreme. You ask her earnestly: if she really did receive all the power she desired, the ability to burn down villages with a thought and turn people into statues, would she do it? Could she really look someone in the eyes and curse them into oblivion?
>Rebecca: . . .
>Adler: What you are offering her is a very real way to experience everything she was denied in her old home. Not some dark fantasy, but the ability to pursue mischief and magic, real magic, and she can still be as witchy and brooding and wear as much black as she wants. She is on the cusp of living out her fantasy and she's excited, but she needs to focus and actually listen to what you are saying to her. Can she at least try to do that? You are positive that she will like what lies on the seelie path.
>Rebecca: Well... You guess you can try... Doing tricks and mischeif does sound more fun than everyone hating and being scared of you... OH! You can read the next part of the book now!
>Rebecca: Oh yeah, you forgot for a moment that Burnside makes being Unseelie sound horrible and disgusting. Is there any other way to be Unseelie without skinning people and getting covered in guts?
>Burnside: Not unless she wants to do it right?
>Adler: Technically yes, but seriously, is this truly the path Rebecca wants to go down? You remember when She first stumbled into this stone circle, how she was openly concerned for her father's safety when you temporarily turned him into a poodle and how she was horrified when she thought you had killed those Bunkirk thugs when it was only elfshot. She was worried about them even though she claimed to hate them. This doesn't sound like someone destined to be unseelie. Based on what you've heard her say, her life in Bunkirk was so repressed that she left looking for an outlet, but she's veering too far over to the other extreme. You ask her earnestly: if she really did receive all the power she desired, the ability to burn down villages with a thought and turn people into statues, would she do it? Could she really look someone in the eyes and curse them into oblivion?
>Rebecca: . . .
>Adler: What you are offering her is a very real way to experience everything she was denied in her old home. Not some dark fantasy, but the ability to pursue mischief and magic, real magic, and she can still be as witchy and brooding and wear as much black as she wants. She is on the cusp of living out her fantasy and she's excited, but she needs to focus and actually listen to what you are saying to her. Can she at least try to do that? You are positive that she will like what lies on the seelie path.
>Rebecca: Well... You guess you can try... Doing tricks and mischeif does sound more fun than everyone hating and being scared of you... OH! You can read the next part of the book now!