Drabble: Tipping Point (Heroes; Kaito, Adam)

[the_grynne]

#2 in a trio of drabbles about Adam, Angela and Kaito. The first was Methuselah, I. Followed by DreamtimeSpoilers for seasons 1-2, and for the deleted scenes which reveal Kaito and Angela's abilities. Contains speculation about the Company. I considered writing this in meta form at first, but then decided this was probably more concise

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[the_grynne]

Finding out Kaito's ability was like see the piece of the jigsaw that makes everything makes sense. Of course Kaito would have been a leader in the Company when they were performing their "good works", saving the world as Bob said. He would have analysed what was happening around the world, seen trouble at the macro level, and the founders would have prevented that thing from happening but providing the "tipping point". It must be an amazingly God-like power, to be able to do that. But it would make Kaito extremely vulnerable to the "unknown unknowns" (re. Rumsfeld) - variables in those who are closest to him. Like Adam, keeping information about himself a secret.

Kaito loses his idealism after that, I think. He applies his gift to predicting the stock market, things in which he doesn't have too much to lose.

the knowledge, that terrible knowledge, that nothing can be made right.Ironical, that his son should have the power to travel back in time. And yet I think Hiro will one day have to learn the same painful lesson, that even

[fan_elune]

He might lose his idealism, but there's a tiny part of it that will never die. The part that loves his son, I'd wager. And yes, Hiro will learn the same lesson, or I shall be very disappointed. I'm thinking that he might need to learn it over and over again, though. It's the way Hiro is

[the_grynne]

All things considered, Angela doesn't have a particularly nice ability. Precogs are mythologically guaranteed to be characters in a tragedy. Damn you, show, for conforming to the Cassandra stereotype! I finally got around to finishing Mary Douglas' Purity and Danger, and she puts forward this theory that a society's "conscious" magics, like sorcery, is usually ascribed to those within positions of authority in the social structure, while "unconscious" magics, like witchcraft and premonitions, tends to be the magics of those who can subvert the power structure - generally women.

Considering how much Angela likes to be in control, I had a feeling she would loath being reduced down to her power, which is something that she doesn't have control over.

For Kaito to come to realise that the man he owes so much to is the one he must now go against.He feels betrayed - but then he has also done some betraying himself. Perhaps he doesn't ascribe full agency or even responsibility of his actions to Adam (the dilemma of many determinists) -

[the_grynne]

Thank you.

Angela (or the way Cristine plays it) has a layer of disgust.

Definitely. She, and to perhaps an even greater extent, Kaito. Or at least Kaito seems to regret the past, feel guilty about it, and at the same time know how useless that guilt is. Angela meanwhile seems to feel much more impassioned about what went wrong. I love that scene of her and Kaito on the rooftop, where they each discovered the other had received the death threat - seeing how differently they handled it. One thing I love about her is how unapologetic she is: to Nathan, to Peter, to Kaito.

Dude, I LOVE your icon. :)