[Ah. That kind of question. Well, it doesn't have anything to do with anything current, so he can be open about this without consequence.]
Anyone who needed it.
When I was five, a mage saved my mom and I's life. We had been stuck in a blizzard, the snow too thick to even see in front of us. My mother passed out, and I couldn't have helped her. But then a mage showed up out of nowhere, like he had heard me calling for help. He teleported me and my mother to safety without a single word- no demand for payment, no favors. Just kindness. That's when I knew mages were just misunderstood- when I knew magic could help people like it helped me.
[ Harold had been trying to save his father, so he assumed there was something to it. (Not that he will, in a million thousand years, share that little tidbit.) Maybe that's presumptuous, but it'd been borne out in a story that is comparable enough. ]
I hadn't realized magical practitioners were ostracized. The possibility for Hextech existed all along, but prejudice prevented anyone from realizing it?
The mutants here (they call themselves that, don't look at me) don't like the comparison I make to the mages of my world, but it's the same story. People born with the ability to do incredible things, hated and isolated out of fear by those without powers. There are stories of mages who have destroyed whole races, vanquished civilizations- but haven't people always done that? It's not unique to mages. They can just do it without guns.
Hextech was always going to happen- it was only a matter of time. If it wasn't Viktor and I who discovered it, it would have been someone who wants it to be a weapon for war. The fact we have interest from war-mongering countries on our doorstep when I last was home is proof enough.
Yes. I've seen nothing fundamentally different about anyone I've met here with extrahuman abilities. Actual power is not necessary for such bigotry, and perceived foreignness is enough -- any kind of measurable difference will do. Humanity has discovered and re-discovered the same things over and over because we fail to learn from one another.
We call them weapons of mass destruction, and it's another similarity with nuclear energy. The thought that it could be misappropriated for large scale death and suffering is chilling but unsurprising to me.
Of course. It could power the whole sun without damaging the environment or exploiting human labor, if used correctly and safely. Resource extraction has been a primary driver of man's inhumanity to man for thousands of years. The potential to reduce suffering is immense.
...If it helps at all, I don't think even if that person used the gemstone for violence, it would impact most of the population here. And the fact I haven't seen any retaliation yet for even starting what I did, maybe I overestimated her inclinations.
I believe what I suggested was an emergency mechanism that will allow you to do so should you decide it's necessary, not that you should do it immediately.
And I'm not committing to that before I talk it over with my partner. The other suggestions I don't see him objecting to, since we already talked about similar things, and I appreciate you confirming those would be good ideas, with more modern adjustments than we had thought of.
[ This gives him a strange unexpected pang for Nathan and Root, the only two people he'd ever previously been able to have that kind of work partnership with. Now he's on his own again... ]
I've reached out to him separately as well. I don't wish to create the impression that I'm suggesting anything illicit. You should both be in agreement, of course.
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Anyone who needed it.
When I was five, a mage saved my mom and I's life. We had been stuck in a blizzard, the snow too thick to even see in front of us. My mother passed out, and I couldn't have helped her. But then a mage showed up out of nowhere, like he had heard me calling for help. He teleported me and my mother to safety without a single word- no demand for payment, no favors. Just kindness. That's when I knew mages were just misunderstood- when I knew magic could help people like it helped me.
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I hadn't realized magical practitioners were ostracized. The possibility for Hextech existed all along, but prejudice prevented anyone from realizing it?
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Hextech was always going to happen- it was only a matter of time. If it wasn't Viktor and I who discovered it, it would have been someone who wants it to be a weapon for war. The fact we have interest from war-mongering countries on our doorstep when I last was home is proof enough.
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We call them weapons of mass destruction, and it's another similarity with nuclear energy. The thought that it could be misappropriated for large scale death and suffering is chilling but unsurprising to me.
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[It sounds so devastating similar.]
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I'm worried.
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I've reached out to him separately as well. I don't wish to create the impression that I'm suggesting anything illicit. You should both be in agreement, of course.