Magic/Support Reserves: the Preserve, Wednesday After Classes
It was Raven's turn again to lead the meeting, and while she was trying very hard not to dwell on last week (with the exception of crying on Karla's shoulder last night), she couldn't help but let it guide her toward a topic for the day. She hadn't let it get in the way of provided the usual assortment of snacks, though when Raven was in charge they leaned heavily toward fruits and veggies, and water and lemonade and tea rather than soda.
"Many of us here have remarkable gifts," she began, "but they have taken time to learn to use them, and we must always be on our guard to use them wisely. There may be times beyond our control, however, when our powers do not work correctly, which could lead to unintended results. In Fandom, this is often a humorous thing, thankfully, but that is not always the case. Sometimes there may be dangerous consequences."
"For example," Tara put in with a bit of a wince, "You m-might totally and completely by accident make a couple dozen people invisible. N-nobody got hurt when that happened, but that was really just luck. It can take a long time to forgive yourself for something like that. It can even tempt you to just give up."
"It's not just instances where our powers don't work right that can lead to unintended consequences," Karla added. "We have a responsibility to think things through. Just because we have the ability to do something, should we? When do we cross the line between helpful and hubris?"
"Have you ever had an instance where your gifts did not work as you anticipated, or you lost control of them?" Raven finished up. "How did you deal with this? And for the Support Reserves members with us today, what could you do to help someone so stricken to regain control or undo what they had done?"
"Or," Francine added, "How do you deal when there's nothing you can do to help?"
[Written with the other three of the Fab Four, the lovely glacial_witch, life_inshadow, and thatsamilkshake. Wait for the OCD, plz. OCD is up!]
"Many of us here have remarkable gifts," she began, "but they have taken time to learn to use them, and we must always be on our guard to use them wisely. There may be times beyond our control, however, when our powers do not work correctly, which could lead to unintended results. In Fandom, this is often a humorous thing, thankfully, but that is not always the case. Sometimes there may be dangerous consequences."
"For example," Tara put in with a bit of a wince, "You m-might totally and completely by accident make a couple dozen people invisible. N-nobody got hurt when that happened, but that was really just luck. It can take a long time to forgive yourself for something like that. It can even tempt you to just give up."
"It's not just instances where our powers don't work right that can lead to unintended consequences," Karla added. "We have a responsibility to think things through. Just because we have the ability to do something, should we? When do we cross the line between helpful and hubris?"
"Have you ever had an instance where your gifts did not work as you anticipated, or you lost control of them?" Raven finished up. "How did you deal with this? And for the Support Reserves members with us today, what could you do to help someone so stricken to regain control or undo what they had done?"
"Or," Francine added, "How do you deal when there's nothing you can do to help?"
[Written with the other three of the Fab Four, the lovely glacial_witch, life_inshadow, and thatsamilkshake. Wait for the OCD, plz. OCD is up!]