My Will, a bit of backstory
Let me talk about my Will.
As a kid I didn’t like being told what to do, especially if it didn’t make sense. I’d often ask ‘why’ and be told ‘because’.
In my twenties is when I started getting political. I started to see problems with the society that I live in, as most people do. I joined a gay democratic club and quickly discovered how fractious such groups are. I helped focus them and we tried to get a bill passed for gay rights in Broward county. It took a lot of work and in the end the attempt failed. I was a bit disgusted by the outcome, that it could be so easily altered by a few that preach to the masses.
After that I discovered it was easier to focus on the people that make decisions. When I saw there were problems in a city, I’d go meet with the mayor to fix them. I found very quickly that they simply were not motivated to help resolve problems. So I began dictating to them what they would do. When I put myself in an adversarial role, I could feel their force of will upon me. It felt like a combination of anger and ego.
I learned to accept their focus on me and let it burn within me. I then turned an amplified version of it against them and told them, “You will do this.” Surprising to me, it worked repeatedly. They often relented on the spot. I’ve dealt with Mayors, City attorneys, Code Enforcement, City Managers, Police Chiefs, and Governors.
After a while I got bored with local politics and started dealing with corporations. I found CEOs were just the same, all bark and no bite. Getting corporate policy changed was fairly simple.
Almost all of these people that I’ve dealt had some measure of this empathic ability to affect others. But none of them were capable of stopping my effect on them. I theorize that many of these people got to their positions by affecting the minds of others. I’d call it ‘empathic manipulation’.
Generally speaking I wouldn’t initiate manipulation unless I felt it used on me. But it’s so common for people in those positions to have the ability that I got a lot of training. Eventually I got a bit of an ego as I never found anyone that was more capable than me.
I figured that I was simply indomitable.
Until Raven…