>> Absolutely. Precisely because of the way the Puppetmaster conducts business, <<
Honestly, this is his true power -- the ability to read people, and follow the connections between them, and make new ones. The telepathy is just gravy, and honestly he uses it more for petting people than anything more serious.
*chuckle* Wait until Ragno meets him. Ragno has the same non-super gift. It won't take him five minutes to clock the Puppetmaster just based on how people move around him. Because he's always the center of focus, I swear, it is like watching cats play hauissh. Which is going to freak the heck out of poor Ruggiero.
>> he would end up with MORE "favors" <<
That actually is the "hidden" part of the favor-economy. The favors that you don't know even you hold, until someone decides now is the right time to pay them. Those are never exchanged like the open kind are, they're just the dark matter holding the universe together.
>> like the mother of the girl met by accident and soothed because the Puppetmaster could, and thought someone should.<<
And this is another particular thing about Terramagne, built into the moral gradient of the dimension itself: that when you do little secret kindnesses for people, they come back to you in some way, not always directly, but in the way the energy flows around you and your people.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Another glimpse of the Puppetmaster
Date: 2015-12-26 03:24 am (UTC)Honestly, this is his true power -- the ability to read people, and follow the connections between them, and make new ones. The telepathy is just gravy, and honestly he uses it more for petting people than anything more serious.
*chuckle* Wait until Ragno meets him. Ragno has the same non-super gift. It won't take him five minutes to clock the Puppetmaster just based on how people move around him. Because he's always the center of focus, I swear, it is like watching cats play hauissh. Which is going to freak the heck out of poor Ruggiero.
>> he would end up with MORE "favors" <<
That actually is the "hidden" part of the favor-economy. The favors that you don't know even you hold, until someone decides now is the right time to pay them. Those are never exchanged like the open kind are, they're just the dark matter holding the universe together.
>> like the mother of the girl met by accident and soothed because the Puppetmaster could, and thought someone should.<<
And this is another particular thing about Terramagne, built into the moral gradient of the dimension itself: that when you do little secret kindnesses for people, they come back to you in some way, not always directly, but in the way the energy flows around you and your people.