I wouldn't mind that particular list. Though she's more there to harass him without actually harming him. Too easy to get other forces involved if I go that route, after all...
That said, I got in some good hard kicks on his ribs (both sides), his kneecaps (both again), and his balls—and while I didn't actually kick his throat, I did press my heel down long enough that it'll certainly bruise.
Honestly, Lydia, until then I'd never felt so *alive* as when I had his throat under my heel and knew that all I needed to do was put my entire weight on it to crush it.
The only reason I didn't is that you'd already proven how thoroughly they heal you when you poof off to the pokecenter.
Welcome to how it felt every time I took something away from someone back home. Every time their hopes, dreams, and everything around them came crushing down and they broke.
It's a brilliant feeling, isn't it? I can only imagine how it must feel for someone who hadn't been able to do so as I had.
I was a talented onieromancer—that is, a Dreamwalker—able to change whatever dream I was in *however* I wanted, among other things. And I had this ability we can Sapping The Vital Spark, where I can drain people's life force by touch.
Not really, no. Not even with Cobblethought, which I still hadn't learnt yet.
But you could still break someone psychologically that way.
Anyway. Besides the three clauses worth of Dream contacts and the ability particular to my own variety of Changelings, I also had some clauses of Darkness contracts that let me increase people's susceptibility to fear and help me go undetected. And like all Changelings I can feed off certain emotions in others to gain magic to fuel those contracts. For me, it was sorrow, but I'm hoping to change it to fear if Autumn can take me all the way here.
Theoretically I could Talecraft like Tyler—just like he could Dreamwalk like me—but practically speaking, it's better to play to our strengths. His particular emotion he gains magic from is rage, by the way.
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fingersandteeth) wrote2022-02-21 05:11 pm
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I'm done, Steven. Absolutely done.
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[He pauses for a moment, then types,] How's Tyler doing?
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So well enough, I suppose?
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[She must not have bitched him out for keeping secrets too badly then.]
I can give you a list of all the places I kicked him while he was down, so Nex knows where he's (presumably) still tender?
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That said, I got in some good hard kicks on his ribs (both sides), his kneecaps (both again), and his balls—and while I didn't actually kick his throat, I did press my heel down long enough that it'll certainly bruise.
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Did you enjoy it, at least?
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*Immensely*.
Honestly, Lydia, until then I'd never felt so *alive* as when I had his throat under my heel and knew that all I needed to do was put my entire weight on it to crush it.
The only reason I didn't is that you'd already proven how thoroughly they heal you when you poof off to the pokecenter.
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Welcome to how it felt every time I took something away from someone back home. Every time their hopes, dreams, and everything around them came crushing down and they broke.
It's a brilliant feeling, isn't it? I can only imagine how it must feel for someone who hadn't been able to do so as I had.
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[Sexy, he wants to say, but that's probably not something Lydia wants to know.]
like the best power trip possible. I want to do something like that *again.*
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Mmm. I mean, you can. There's other ways to break someone and get that same kind of rush without it having to be physical.
But that requires a hell of a situation to be able to mentally and emotionally break someone...
And probably be hard to do in a place like this, unfortunately.
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I suppose I'll have to do it in people's dreams once a weird weekend comes around. I'm already making plans for Solus.
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I guess I never really asked about the kinds of shit you could do, did I?
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Though a little less fun, I suppose. Since I wouldn't think dreams would be quite as tangible as real-life people and objects?
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But you could still break someone psychologically that way.
Anyway. Besides the three clauses worth of Dream contacts and the ability particular to my own variety of Changelings, I also had some clauses of Darkness contracts that let me increase people's susceptibility to fear and help me go undetected. And like all Changelings I can feed off certain emotions in others to gain magic to fuel those contracts. For me, it was sorrow, but I'm hoping to change it to fear if Autumn can take me all the way here.
Theoretically I could Talecraft like Tyler—just like he could Dreamwalk like me—but practically speaking, it's better to play to our strengths. His particular emotion he gains magic from is rage, by the way.