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medicinemane · 11 months ago

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You know... I was just struck by a thought, I wonder if it's that Sabe can compel people or if it's that he decides what will happen and then there's no choice but to do it (or more like, if the compelling is purely mental or if there's an element of shadow walking to it)

Because he's frankly ridiculously psychicly strong, and he's also actually an insanely good shadow shifter (like very nearly able to pull off x=x style stuff, it's just he has to make sure no one's looking including himself to pull it off... lot of grabbing things out of cupboards that obviously weren't there before except for the small fact that they've always been there as of now), so the thing is that if he tells someone to take a seat and they find out that's what they're doing regardless of if they wanted to... is it him messing around in their mind or is it that he's pressing on the fabric of things so that they were always going to sit down right then?

It doesn't really matter, and it's probably mostly the former for a number of reasons... but it did just kinda occur to me that he does a lot of the latter so that could totally be the case here too

(It's funny, but for a long time I hadn't noticed just how strong he'd gotten because it's all so naturally done, and then you start realizing that while he's just a very strong swordsman, that a lot of the more mental areas he's doing stuff far beyond what most people can do. I mean he's basically a living Arcana among other things)

(The other funny thing is while he was still in his own shadow, he was kind of a power hungry asshole, but the moment he actually got to see how things were by getting a bit of true power... he kind of realized he didn't care very much about being in charge anymore, became happy to take a backseat and focus on being the universal fixer, and once he didn't even slightly care about power anymore it turns out that it just kind of falls into his lap)

#of course he regretted being as much of an asshole as he could be at certain times; so he went back and took himself aside to say to chill #like just stepped in and said 'let's use less meatgrinders right now; like let's just pump the breaks on all this'#but I mean that's another place where he's very powerful is how second nature moving through time is for him #because he's realized that time is less a time and time is more of a place #simply open a window and know that you've already arrived when you want to #which is a good trait when you're the universal fixer #just grab a body that's ready to go through the motions of someone's last moments #reach out of the shadows just a tiny bit before their going to die and swap them with what's basically a corpse #and no one knows that they aren't dead; the nature of the shadow remains intact rather than splitting off because you've meddled too much #and meanwhile you get to keep a live version of the person that was supposed to die #all because you knew when you were going to #he's very good at just putting his finger on the fabric of shadow and making it so all roads lead wherever he says they do #so it doesn't matter what route they'll take; people show up exactly where they should when they should because that's a low point in fabri #if you just know you're going where you want to arrive; and that things are where you need them to be; and people do what you want them to #then it's just all already happened except for the part where it hasn't happened yet #the outcome is predetermined because you said it's predetermined #and then in spite of this he'll have fun sparing someone that's a better swordsman than he is; losing but putting up a good fight #because he's good enough he'd never lose to a normal person; but there's a lot of people who are just plain better than he is #and it's just a totally different thing... maybe he could just decide he's better and wins; but why would he? he isn't #if it were actually important then one; he probably is better than that person cause... the people at the top are all on the same page #if someone's being a prick then they're probably not even close to his league #like most of the people stronger then him physically are true immortals; or at least honorary immortals like him #but even if they were somehow stronger then... then he just wouldn't play #he'd just make them sit their ass down because he said so; or he'd Force choke them till they were down; or he'd use the spectral razor #there's just so many ways he can already have won that all he has to do is not engage in a way where he'd lose #I don't know... just a random rambling thought no one's gonna have an idea what I'm talking about with #mm amber

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