voidtreckernet | Merriment 18

Hey. I'm Shadow and new on blue team. So, from my experience, its better that I do stuff regularly. Keep engaged and all that.

So I'm gonna offer a few services.

One, food. It sounds like yer not strapped for getting enough, but there are limitations. I have an ability to make food, so I figure I'll hit up the kitchen everyday and add to the stores a bit. I can't do a ton, but like feed a few extra people's worth a day should be fine. As long as I'm not wiped out for some reason. Probably won't happen after missions. I'll do this shortly before the rainbow colors disappear.

I can also take special meal requests, or help with special diets that are hard to get what ya need. If those apply, find me in the kitchen, or the training gym before hand. I'll be there regularly. If there's no requests, I'll just add what looks good. Probably rarer items or perishables when its close to stock up time. I reserves the right to reject special requests if yer rude.

Two, I was on Diagad before arriving. And its with great debate I offer this, so I don't want to hear a lecture. I know dark magic. Which is not inherently evil, just a tool, just one that makes it real easy to do evil things. And I do know a spell for mind control. No, I'm not explaining the 'tragic backstory'. [Complete with air quotes] For why I know it. But if ya want to learn how to resist mind control, I can help test ya. Ya can bring a person to monitor me, or another mind reader, or check with my brother whose been here weeks for my character. I'm offering a service, I'm not forcing ya to take it, its up to ya to do what makes ya feel safe doing it.

Three, I guess I can also help people with dark magic. No, I'm not teaching the mind control thing.

Four, I know shadow magic. Yes, that's different from dark magic. This take special kind of affinity to go, so not everyone can learn this, but if ya want to try learning, I can see what I can do.

I'm also gonna hit up the fight club training listing, but I figure I'd throw out the weirder stuff now.

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Link did?

What powers were ya thinking of and when do ya want to meet up?

[If Link recommended him, then that gets a pass on a psych eval.]

Well, I've got a lot of powers. Ghost powers. But Link suggested talking to you about overshadowing. [ His tone is a little reluctant as he mentioned that power. Danny still wasn't certain whether training that ability was really the best idea, with how much it tended to freak people out. ]

This afternoon maybe? I really want to get a start on this, before the next disaster happens.

Well, shadows are my business, though what is overshadowing supposed to do?

I'm meeting with someone shortly, but that should only be a few hours hopefully. I can probably squeeze ya in before the evening one.

[He planned to spread it out more, BUT LINK RECOMMENDATION-]

I guess you could call it possession? Basically I can slide inside another person or some objects and take control? And yes, I know that tends to creep people out, so I try not to do it. Unless its an emergency.

[But multiple people had pointed out to him that he really shouldn't be ignoring such an ability.]

But in an emegency, ya'd want it to work right.

What type of control is it? Puppeteer?

[Nonplussed.]

There are different kinds of control?

[A shrug.]

I think its kind of like the person I overshadow goes to sleep for a little bit while I control their body? They usually don't even remember what happened, unless their mind is strong enough. And then they can just throw me out.

There's the mind control where ya alter the person's mind so they will act independent of yer direct command, sometimes reinforced by illusions or false perceptions, and puppeteer where they're basically just a meat puppet ya move around.

That definitely sounds like the latter.

....Definitely not that. [That sounded way too close to Freakshow's mind control for Danny's comfort.]

But I guess the other one is close enough.

Differences in function are to be expected, but there's only so much ya can do to control a mind and have it work and still be defined as mind control.

But even more important to know what yer doing. When its the altered state, then even if its a strong will, there's time with that struggle of figuring out what reality even IS. Yers is entirely dependent on ya maintaining it.

If yer pressed enough to need to use it, ya want to work. On the other hand, yers is also the less traumatizing version of dealing with that. Loss of control is one thing, having yer mind turn against ya is a whole other, longer lasting issue.

[This whole conversation was making Danny very uncomfortable. It was easier to think about overshadowing when he wasn't thinking about it as mind control. Just, you know, harmlessly, borrow someone's identity for a couple of minutes. ]

Yeah.... I guess thats why I'm here. A couple of people pointed out that I should probably make sure I know what I'm doing with this power. Just in case.

And if Sapling recommended ya...well, I trust his judgement. [This is just how Shadow is.]

Well, we can do that. I had a talent for the magic, so I can get it pretty strong. May need a volunteer. Depending how yers work, I might be an exceptionally hard target to even try it on.

Plus I can't give much teaching if I'm unconscious. [Also. Control issues. BUT TRUST LINK.]

"Usually people can push me out if they try?" Danny offers. "It seems to be mostly a will power or stubbornness thing."

I mean, those are just the same things, honestly. Just a question on how good one's timing is.

Seems like the first step would either be training yer will to be that oppressive which has its advantages or disadvantages, or see how good yer are at manipulating people.

If people are usually unaware, but can fight back, it probably puts them in a dream like state. As long as yer able to find a way to get a person to act in a way they wouldn't 'reject,' it could make any overshadowing attempts easier.

Like if ya took over a leader, their pride might make it impossible to get them to say 'I surrender,' but ya could probably just make 'em walk like a hundred miles away from where they needed to be.

Ugh, none of those things sound like good things. [The idea of purposefully training to better manipulate people made Danny squirm a little. That sounded like a Vlad kind of thing.

But he'd been convinced that he needed to learn. Even if it was just to say he'd learned it so he never needed to think about it again.]

Uh... I guess? I mean I have accidentally ended up in people's dreams before. So I guess it must be sort of linked?

Skills are skills. Whether they're good or bad depends entirely on context and how ya use them.

At the end of the day, diplomats, peacekeepers? They're all manipulators. They have to find the thing that makes a person say 'yes' whether its attacking their ego, their morals, their money, whatever it takes to get them what they want. Its just the thing they want is a good thing. And if they don't manipulate? Well, then it usually means war and bloodshed is worse then some trickery.

And an iron will can be good to stand against overwhelming odds. It can also just make ya overbearing and self righteous. Context.

Overshadowing can be easily abused, I won't say that isn't a risk, but it also has a lot of uses to end something with minimal casualties and ain't that worth it?

Sounds like it, yeah. The people are still active in a subconscious state, just depends how far down yer going.

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