It's not exactly the Abnormality itself, but we can... use their power that way, more or less. We take on their identity and emotions, sort of like we do with our other selves-- it's like being influenced by the Abnormality's thoughts.
[and, as she saw...]
If you're not mentally stable enough to keep yourself separated from it, though, and you let it take you over... you saw what happens then.
[Rosamund frowns. It does and doesn't sound like things she knows. The terminology muddies the explanation for her—] Ego, or E-G-O? [— and the concept itself follows a different brand of logic than she's used to.
But the basics, sure. Corruption and alternate selves. There's a common link there.]
So it's a power that can be made to consume you, and you can...Um, is it right to say you absorb some of it when you encounter it? It sounds like they start off as separate from you, but then when you meet them it triggers something similar inside of you.
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[he's quiet for a couple seconds.]
It's not exactly the Abnormality itself, but we can... use their power that way, more or less. We take on their identity and emotions, sort of like we do with our other selves-- it's like being influenced by the Abnormality's thoughts.
[and, as she saw...]
If you're not mentally stable enough to keep yourself separated from it, though, and you let it take you over... you saw what happens then.
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But the basics, sure. Corruption and alternate selves. There's a common link there.]
So it's a power that can be made to consume you, and you can...Um, is it right to say you absorb some of it when you encounter it? It sounds like they start off as separate from you, but then when you meet them it triggers something similar inside of you.