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How Glass feels about that?

How does she feel about what?

Contextually, I parse the question as "How does Glass feel about this limitation on her power?"

That said, that one probably is unknowable; under ordinary circumstances of writing, Glass shouldn't ever encounter a situation where she's interacting with a world that Alicorn isn't worldbuilding for.

The corollary question is something along the lines of "How would Glass feel if she realized that her power worked off 'authorial intent'?", which implies the proposition "You are a fictional character in a fictional world." So far as has been established, Glass doesn't know this yet; her power is just 'weird' in that it sometimes gives strange bits of information which don't seem to mean much in-character. If she does figure this out, I think the canonical response is:

Alicorn wrote:Bells discovering that they are a fictional product immediately seek a way to put me and my conspirators on trial for crimes against humanity.

(again, correct me if I'm wrong)

You are right <3

Linya, Miles, do you happen to know anybody with skills others can’t figure out, who works in strange ways, and who probably has somewhat-frie dly feelings toward the two.of you? Could this person glitch a vid feed, or invite somebody to dinner on behalf of a group of delegates?

Sorry for the double post, but I wanted to add this right away.

Soph, you just offered to do magic while inside a Catholic church. Are you sure that’s a good idea?

I don't think the magic thing would be that big of a deal. I mean, I teach Sunday school, and this morning I told all the kids in my class I had magic powers and we spent several minutes pretending to turn each other into frogs.

I'm sure the Catholic church has some kind of official anti-magic stance, but I don't think anyone cares about it all that much? I mean, it would probably depend on how conservative your church/friend group was (mine is "gay people shouldn't get married" conservative but not "let's burn Harry Potter books" conservative).

Update: Church's official position on magic, found in the Catechism: "All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. " But, I'll reiterate, in my experience, no one actually cares.

(Now I'm really curious as to how the Catholic Church reacted to, say, Stella.)

Anthusiasum, you apparently hang out with a different sort of Catholic than I do (not that I, by habit, hang out with Catholics per se). The last time the subject of magic came up - not even "real" magic, just some fortune-telling-palmistry fraudster's shop and a snarky comment thereabout - I was treated to a lecture on how those people really did have magic, and it was given to them by the Devil, and they were evil for what they'd had to do to get it and more evil still for using it. Although actually killing the person in question was specifically disavowed, the phrase "suffer not a witch to live" was uttered. It was honestly surreal; the people in question are pretty reasonable about avoiding the topic of religion (with me) most of the time, and I've *never* seen them so fervent about any aspect of it before. This is on the Canadian west coast (Victoria, BC), which as far as I know tends about as secular as the other North American coastal big cities.

Agreed that it would be interesting to read the various religions' official stances on vampires/werewolves/witches immediately post-masquerade. Might make an interesting Flash. Also might not, though, because honestly what are they going to do? Aside from a lot of denouncing, I mean.

...huh. Wow. That is some hardcore Catholicism right there. Maybe it's a Midwestern politeness thing, the Catholics I hang out with are very careful about not directly condemning anyone, lest someone be offended and upset the tenuous peace we have established. (Although, you were in Canada, so that might not be it).

I think "religions reacting to Bells" might not be an interesting flash by itself, but would be interesting as part of a flash about the general public's reactions to all these magical space empresses taking over everything. (I've actually been meaning to write such a thing, but I have several other things I need to write first and not a lot of time). I wouldn't be surprised if Eos magic and Stella's ability to bring back the dead caused some sort of schism somewhere in the vast, divided mess that is Christianity.