Yeah…I’m starting to think that Selkie either legitimately can’t or won’t understand that she needs to take her Echo powers seriously and use them responsibly until something really big happens that can’t be swept under the rug *or* someone actually gets hurt.
This obviously applies to Amanda too but I place slightly more responsibility on Selkie in this specific case because this is her idea to begin with.
Yep! 🙂 I also understand the additional temptation they have to play around like this, given their respective past traumas and abuse. Like, I’m not saying that I’d have done any better at that age! Absolutely not. But the setup here is making me anxious as a reader (in a mostly-good way) and I’m just really hoping that these two aren’t about to learn a painful lesson.
Echo abilities are a lot of responsibility for a kid and it sucks that Selkie and Amanda (and any other child-Echoes we might see during the story) have to deal with it. And the adults in the know, at least the sarnothi ones, should probably be showing more guidance in this regard. Selkie is, if I remember right, a late-bloomer in terms of her powers manifesting and Amanda was totally unexpected – so neither has as much understanding of this as a sarnothi child whose powers manifested at a more typical age and they’re having to play catch-up.
But unfair or not, the kids and everyone else have to deal with the situation as it is and not how it ideally should be. Sometimes people have to learn things the hard way…which is often part of childhood and growing up (and life in general). All that said, no matter what happens here, I trust Dave to make the story entertaining and for Selkie & Amanda both to come out as good stewards of their Echo powers in the end, even if the path to that point might be bumpy at times.
Actually, Opus, it is a ninth party. Amanda turned 9 maybe 2 months ago strip time, and lorded it over Selkie that she was older, and therefore the “big sister”. And I was not talking about the party guests. The complaint was about the two girls using their Echo powers, so I was talking about the two girls. Both nine.
I am coming at it with an air of numerous stories where a child, capable of great powers, does something truly horrible and then uses their powers to set things right, but in the process, they do not fully grasp that you can’t call a mulligan if you kill someone just because you can resurrect them.
So yeah, these children are 9. They also have barely controlled deadly weapon mind powers. So the only question is how severe and when Dave is going to have such an arc in the story — especially with two of them, he might decide they can learn from the same traumatic incident.
And quite frankly, giving Tony migraines and a nosebleed for the rest of the day would be on the low end of things and accomplish the initiation of such an arc — Selkie does not have to pop the kid’s head like a grape to get the point across to Selkie and Amanda.
Why do I anticipate that Tony has not, in fact, ditched George, but has utilized him as some sort of counter-Selkie pincer maneuver?
Why do I feel Tony is about to get brain damage is the bigger concern.
If Selkie does not pull a scanners on him by accident, I get a feeling this might be a dramatic, lasting note in this story coming up…
Yeah…I’m starting to think that Selkie either legitimately can’t or won’t understand that she needs to take her Echo powers seriously and use them responsibly until something really big happens that can’t be swept under the rug *or* someone actually gets hurt.
This obviously applies to Amanda too but I place slightly more responsibility on Selkie in this specific case because this is her idea to begin with.
You people do understand that these children are 9 years old? Right?
This is a 10th birthday party so, mixed.
Yep! 🙂 I also understand the additional temptation they have to play around like this, given their respective past traumas and abuse. Like, I’m not saying that I’d have done any better at that age! Absolutely not. But the setup here is making me anxious as a reader (in a mostly-good way) and I’m just really hoping that these two aren’t about to learn a painful lesson.
Echo abilities are a lot of responsibility for a kid and it sucks that Selkie and Amanda (and any other child-Echoes we might see during the story) have to deal with it. And the adults in the know, at least the sarnothi ones, should probably be showing more guidance in this regard. Selkie is, if I remember right, a late-bloomer in terms of her powers manifesting and Amanda was totally unexpected – so neither has as much understanding of this as a sarnothi child whose powers manifested at a more typical age and they’re having to play catch-up.
But unfair or not, the kids and everyone else have to deal with the situation as it is and not how it ideally should be. Sometimes people have to learn things the hard way…which is often part of childhood and growing up (and life in general). All that said, no matter what happens here, I trust Dave to make the story entertaining and for Selkie & Amanda both to come out as good stewards of their Echo powers in the end, even if the path to that point might be bumpy at times.
Actually, Opus, it is a ninth party. Amanda turned 9 maybe 2 months ago strip time, and lorded it over Selkie that she was older, and therefore the “big sister”. And I was not talking about the party guests. The complaint was about the two girls using their Echo powers, so I was talking about the two girls. Both nine.
I am coming at it with an air of numerous stories where a child, capable of great powers, does something truly horrible and then uses their powers to set things right, but in the process, they do not fully grasp that you can’t call a mulligan if you kill someone just because you can resurrect them.
So yeah, these children are 9. They also have barely controlled deadly weapon mind powers. So the only question is how severe and when Dave is going to have such an arc in the story — especially with two of them, he might decide they can learn from the same traumatic incident.
And quite frankly, giving Tony migraines and a nosebleed for the rest of the day would be on the low end of things and accomplish the initiation of such an arc — Selkie does not have to pop the kid’s head like a grape to get the point across to Selkie and Amanda.
watch the pluralizing that seems to be more egregious all of a sudden! it could give you away pretty quickly.