[ SECRET POST #5004 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5004 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If you look at it as her not doing it because it’s wrong, then I absolutely agree. They deserved it, and the world would’ve been a better place if she’d rumoured them.

But if you look at it as her not doing it out of self-preservation, and also because she’s afraid of how she may abuse her powers in the future if she starts using them again, then I totally understand why she feels like she needs to go cold turkey, so to speak.

Ideally, Allison learns how to self-regulate her powers-usage so that she doesn’t have to go cold turkey. But given the nature of her powers, and the nature of her upbringing, I can see how learning to self-regulate her powers-usage would feel almost unfathomable to her.

[(Anonymous)]

OP: I mostly view it as the latter, because her powers really come across as somewhat addictive to me, and I can understand her preferring to go cold turkey than spend her days mind-controlling everyone around her...
But at the same time, I want to see the timeline where she'd just occasionally tell some racist white dickhead, "I heard a rumour that you went home at the end of the day, had a very serious think about what sort of person you are and what sort of country you want America to be, and determined not only to stop discriminating on the basis of race, sex, sexuality, or religion, but to actively oppose such discrimination where and when you can."

It's a nice thought.

[(Anonymous)]

It could also be a slippery slope- if you tell 3 racist assholes to stop being racist assholes, there are 100 more you'll run into after that. What determines when it's okay to rumor them? If you rumor this guy, shouldn't you rumor that guy, too? You could easily end up also feeling like you have to rumor everyone... it would definitely be a dilemma.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - Yeah, I definitely view it as the latter, too. I mean, obviously overriding someone's mental autonomy is a huge deal, ethically, no matter how awful that person is. But I feel like UA is not the kind of show to take a hard-line "ends NEVER justify the means" attitude.

I actually do think it's really fitting that when Allison finally breaks and uses her powers again, she uses them to make someone stop actively causing harm to another person. She's not circumventing someone's right to self-determine. She waits until the person has chosen to cause brutal harm and she is doing the responsible thing by stopping them.

But then, because her relationship with her powers is very slipper and analogous to addiction, she immediately starts to backslide into using her powers punitively. Which isn't to say that racist POS in the diner didn't deserve to hurt. But when you have the kind of executive power Allison has, I'm not really sure you should be the judge and jury, too.