i wasn't looking for this

[from_scratch]

This is a successor to call me maybe and trade my soul for a wish, which were getting crowded.

with Emily (Maggie)

with Alex (ErinFlight)

with Destin (Rockeye)

with Nick (Rockeye)

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[from_scratch]

"What what would be like, being afraid of people reading and/or fucking with my mind? I have no reason to believe my indestructibility extends to my non-physical traits and I value my privacy. A lot."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I mean, I can't say I blame you, you have every right to not want to be telepathized, it just seems strange to have such a thorough fear reaction to it. I wouldn't consent to unrestrained telepathy from someone I didn't trust, but being all alone in your own head forever sounds lonely. I'm not saying that it's wrong or even unusual, but it's just not something that I personally get."

[from_scratch]

"I'm very introverted."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Fair enough. And my own attitude is fantastically atypical, I'm aware, it's just that we're twins and we've been in each others' heads at least a little since before we were born."

[from_scratch]

"I'm... glad that happened to work out for you."

[iamnotpolaris]

"It very worked out for me! Even if it does make the mushy even more overwhelming."

[from_scratch]

"The mushy?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"D'you remember how I said the demon--the other demon, Tialle's Demon--apparently had a gorgeous brain and was very receptive to telepathy?"

[from_scratch]

"Ah. So now your sister is having telepathic fun and games with her crush and you are out wandering summoning another kind of demon by accident."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yep. Also, you know, in case it devolves into things I really don't want to witness. Again."

[from_scratch]

"This is reasonable of you. And hey, you got a friendly non-planet-destroying demon, so it all worked out."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I mean, if you wanted to actually do things, destroying the planet I was on seems...counterproductive."

[from_scratch]

"Yes. It's just one of the more dramatic available failure modes."

[iamnotpolaris]

"True enough. But then, I could probably destroy a planet if I worked at it hard enough, so maybe the possibility just seems a little less salient."

[from_scratch]

"How would you do it?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Find a way to amplify my power and rip the its core apart by its magnetic field."

[from_scratch]

"Well, that would certainly do the trick. Amplifying your power is a thing?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"I haven't seen any amplifiers in particular for magnetism, but we've got one for telepathy back home and with all this magic we're running into lately I'd be surprised if I couldn't find a way to do it if I really put my mind to it."

[from_scratch]

"Telepathy amplifier. Grand."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Well, if it had never been invented the world would probably be a radioactive wasteland, so..."

[from_scratch]

"Really."

[iamnotpolaris]

"It's a long, complicated story, but suffice to say that it's only recently that mutants have been a public thing, and almost thirty years ago it was necessary to use Cerebro--that's what it's called--to comb the country for mutants who would help my parents, one of whom is a telepath, thwart another group of mutants who were trying to turn the Cold War hot."

[from_scratch]

"...So the telepath used the amplifier to investigate an entire countryful of people deeply enough to find out if they had useful powers and helpful dispositions or not."

[iamnotpolaris]

Sigh. "No. Everyone has a unique mental signature that tells you almost nothing about how their brain works, but mutants have a distinct," she waves her hand, "thing. Languages not built around the existence of telepathy don't have a word for it. And the kind of telepathy my parent and sister have has a spatial aspect. So they wrote down where a bunch of mutants were and then my parents went on a road trip and asked them, 'will you please help us avert nuclear annihilation.'"

[from_scratch]

"Okay, 'so the telepath used the amplifier to track down members of a closeted minority they'd never met and assert that their wartime help was necessary to avoid armageddon'."