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[givehead]

Turning 21 has been a completely underrated experience. I was expecting the blackout and loss of time. Even the warping to a new place isn't out of the realm of estimated probability.

But being genetically altered is a plot twist. I assume it is so we can fuck the monsters.

I call dibs on the raven dude.

cw: looots of kink/fetish/nsfw jokes/conversation going on in this here post.

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[unsheathedfromreality]

It wasn't an unreasonable hope. Trench took other lessons from the Nightmare and the Watchers. Improved treatment of half-Pthumerians might have been one of them.

But it is difficult when you live on a razor's edge the way they do to make room for children who can't help the destruction they cause.

That was my hope in mentioning it. Many of you who survived the Nightmare carry that guilt and this might be a way to assuage it. A chance to make a tangible difference.

Though it I think it must be more than just changing perspective. They really are dangerous but more out of fear and ignorance than malice.

[onekindsoul]

Yeah. I'm not going to deny that Julia was dangerous. I think she was willing to admit that much herself. She just... Didn't have chance to be anything more than that. Her father denied half of her identity and her sort of aunt treated her like a pariah. There was only so many options she had in a world that already saw her as a monster.

And yeah- There is a lot of guilt over how things ended with the dream. I... Think that we sort of got the best we could ask for. But if anyone got the short end of the stick it was Julia.

I do want to find a way to make it up to her and the people like her.

[unsheathedfromreality]

Of course. Her case would not have been so tragic as it was if the people around her had understood what she would be and been prepared for her. What can be done to repair the prejudices and ignorance among Trench's population is admirable.

But I caution it must go hand in hand with teaching the half-Pthumerians what nature does not give them, that they don't learn on their own. How to contain their forms and their powers. Not even their Pthumerian mothers seem able to do that.

Julia did deserve better. It would be good to make a tangible difference in her honor.