InCryptid Q&A, Part I: Blind spots.

[seanan_mcguire]

So remember when I said that I would answer ten questions about the InCryptid universe? Well, I'm still taking questions, but here's your first answer!

ebartley asks...

"Why hasn't the Covenant squashed the Prices? They aren't that well-hidden

Comments

[shanejayell]

Ooooh.

Interesting and worrying too.

[seanan_mcguire]

The Covenant of St. George is willfully blind.

It's not a joke.

[colliemommie]

Institutional blindness at its best...

Thank you for the information. The more I hear about this universe the more intrigued I am by it!

[seanan_mcguire]

Yay!

[mneme]

Oh! That totally makes sense -- in an "institutions are (much) dumber than individual people" sort of way (some day, I'd like to see you talk/write about the themes about authority and abuse of same that so underly a large number (Price, Newsflesh, Velvetween, at the very least) of your universes).

[seanan_mcguire]

I am not a fan of institutional authority, it's true.

[liddle_oldman]

My theory is, absolutist organizations (and I very specifically include the more froth-speckled evangelicals -- and, for that matter, the Church) cannot admit any doubts or questions whatsoever, because if you ask one question, it leads to others, and the whole structure comes down.

Besides, there is no point in questions. One already knows the answers.

[geekhyena]

In that case, one wonders why there haven't been more defections? Natural variation and looking at past cults posits that there will be a rate of defection because some people can't quite get into that mindset, no matter how they try, or they grow out of it. Like why people leave really rabidly racist/anti-gay churches, especially once they meet someone who isn't Exactly Like Them and realize that other forms of living are entirely valid. Methinks Dominic might defect sooner or later, now that Verity's exposed him to some new things...

[herewiss13]

Given the lethality of the organization, I'd imagine that most defections are quietly disappeared...or publically dismembered as traitors to the Cause/Humanity.

Either way, you don't get to retire in peace. :-P

What happens to this _latest_ generation, OTOH...

[geekhyena]

I imagine that defector or non defector, the Covenant's pension/retirement plan is "where would you like us to bury what mangled bits we find of your corpse?"

[dragonsally]

That all makes total sense. Not the institutional deniers of course, that sort of blindness has no sense in it all.

[seanan_mcguire]

Right.