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Dosage 1 John Preston [Video]

_{[Have an emotionless, unfeeling supercop. He is sitting on his bed totally calm.]}

Where am I? I have children to take care of and a job to do. I don't want to be questioned for very long as my son is due home from school any time now. What is the nature of your business and why are we not at headquarters? Are you Father?

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Tell me, if your arm was injured, mangled, and bleeding, would you just ignore that it was there, or try to find a medical professional to fix it? This is assuming you don't have the skills to fix it yourself. [Tris is raising an eyebrow.] I've seen worse than you probably expect- I'm teaching a student roughly your age, and trying to find a serial killer, back home. I kept a barrier up when there was a serial killer loose in this place. [She's perfectly linefaced. Sorry, Preston.]

....... [Oh, he's trying not to comment on the "It's called a conscience" flag there, or that you being aware of that means that you understand more than you realize and are possibly less suppressed than you think...and he only really has one thing to add to Tris's comment here.]

My scars aren't visible right now... I deal with the worst of humanity - because I know the horrors, and because it hurts, and I want to do something about it.

So stop them. Stop them at the source.

You have a point, but while those things are easily mended, from what I understand, emotional pain and suffering is far more deeply rooted. It does not just go away, it must be suppressed.

Or dealt with. [Not that she's the best person to live as an example of that...] Knowing how to manage your emotions instead of letting them manage you is something that most people have to learn as a fact of life... and then there are mages from my world, where that lesson is made all the more vital by the fact that power like mine reacts to emotion.

_{[John says nothing]}

[He's leaning on the wall, still relatively calm; he is, after all, someone who's never had the benefit of a drug to handle it for him who just dealt rationally with having a gun aimed at him with clear intent to kill.]

...There are people who are trained to it, as well. As much as you seem to focus on the negative of emotions as being dangerous- which they can be- there is a great deal of good there as well. It's like everything else. You take the good and the bad and see what you can make of it.

_{[John looks at the vial in his hand...uncertainty creeping across his face and then camping there. He looks up at Saguru, who he felt looked a little too smug. Anger flashed in his eyes and he felt sick to his stomach.]} What good would it do? What I have been trained cannot be unlearned in a day.

No, it can't - but for at least the short-term, our options are limited.

Is there ever truly an "easy way out" that's actually free and simple?

[Tris is winding her medallion's ribbon around her fingers absently.] I didn't learn control in a day- most mages don't get this until they're at least seven or eight years my senior. I didn't learn emotional control in a day- and I had some things happen along the way that made it clear it was more pressing a matter than it would have been for one of my foster-siblings.

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Dosage 1 John Preston [Video]

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im starting to lose it now... its crowding my browser

Sorry 'bout not explaining the Thread thing sooner ^^; long threads do that.

Yeah.

Re: Yeah.

...Apologies, "too smug" is kind-of his natural state.

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