[ SECRET POST #2963 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2963 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Underbelly: Razor, linked for (live action) sex/partial nudity]

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06. http://i.imgur.com/5jIgSLi.gifv
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[Steven Universe]


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08. [ SPOILERS for Durarara!! Light Novels ]



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09. [ SPOILERS for Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness ]



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10. [ SPOILERS for Naruto ]



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11. [ WARNING for non-con ]

[Banshee]


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13. [ WARNING for rape ]







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Comments

[darkmanifest]

And then you have the flip side, where one mage child wasn't taken as a child to the Circle, and the result was an entire village wiped off the map by said child. Some Circles are fucked, but most people never seem to have a viable alternative that isn't "let mages do whatever because freedom".

[(Anonymous)]

huh. glad you think rounding up people you fear in camps sounds like an okay thing because some mages might do bad things and we can't trust them to control themselves and they can only be taught if we locked them away and some times take their minds!

also yes all the circles are fucked up. they kidnap children. I can't even imagine why someone might hide their mage talent kids from the scary church that wants to take away their child, possible kill them, possible take away their mind, and teach them that they are evil in the eyes of god and can never ever ever be a good person. Why would any parent not want that for their child? They get free food and education! That makes it fine.

So much of this shit sounds like the justification for interment camps and how government have stolen children and put them in 'school'.

[(Anonymous)]

Can those real life children fart fireballs?

No?

Then it isn't the same, and you goddamn well know it.

[darkmanifest]

So what's your alternative? That's my question. We agree the Circle system can be fucked, but while you're harping about that, you've yet to present a solution to dealing with dangerous mages.

Also, you cannot possibly compare mages to real-life minorities who do not each develop magical powers of mass destruction before puberty. Elves in Alienages, dwarves in Dust Town, those are equal parallels, where the only difference between them and everyone else is race or class.

[(Anonymous)]

And I'm sure the X-Men fandom has had this debate for years and years too.

[(Anonymous)]

not really, there's an easy answer to that one. and the answer is radical, violent revolution. magneto was wright.

[darkmanifest]

Yeah, I figure X-Men originated the whole concept, and now there's all types of media trying to compare being prejudiced against wizards and werewolves and vampires and minor gods to being prejudiced against melanin, without being realistic about the problem of "this person can blink and accidentally make your city go boom."

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of people like to point to Hogwarts and/or Xavier's School as alternatives. Which I personally find odd because the thing common with those schools? - both are kept secret and those who go there hide their true selves from the society. Though mages going underground and pretending to be extinct could be one solution, I suppose.

[darkmanifest]

Pretending to be extinct wouldn't work because mage births are partially random, mage children would still be born to non-mage parents and found out by accident. Mages teaching and policing their own mandatory boarding schools without interference and far away from other people might be an option, but there's a precedent set in DA's universe of mages left to their own devices gathering the power to oppress other people because they feel they are superior...the Magneto school of thought.

[i_paint_the_sky]

I think the Circles definitely have a place when it comes to teaching how to use magic, a mage who has passed their Harrowing should be allowed a lot more freedom than is currently the case in many of the circles we see. The happiest mages (Wynne and Vivienne) were the ones who were allowed to pretty much come and go as they pleased.

Also, someone need to keep a better eye on the templars because things in Kirkwall should never have been allowed to get as bad as they did, even if it is the worst city in Thedas.

[darkmanifest]

These are basically my feelings, too, not to abolish the Circles, but to reform them from the ground up - ideally, continue to keep them independent from Chantry control, and have templars work with mages on equal grounds. During the rebellion, there's Circles that continue to function with templars for protection, without either being forced to obey the other, better than either Tevinter or Orlais's style. And I'm wondering where the hell the Seekers were while Kirkwall was being such a shitshow.

[(Anonymous)]

They went, they saw the frequency with which Kirkwall spawned blood mages and abominations, and they decided Meredith's methods were harsh but necessary. Cassandra actually says as much in one of her dialog trees, and laments that they didn't stay to look into things more deeply - it's implied to have been before Meredith got the idol, when she was still sane enough to clean things up enough to look harsh but not corrupt without some serious digging.

[darkmanifest]

Oh wow, well, fuck them. The Gallows was hell even before Meredith went cuckoo. People give Elthina shit for not reigning in Meredith, but apparently everyone and their grandma saw what was going on and decided to wait and see. Well, surprise! I need to talk to Cassandra more, thanks.