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dramaqueenducky!Oct. 17th, 2007
One of those ones where I didn't put nearly enough in the initial summary.
The said "Nursery" is where the Terats raise the children they've managed to breed up despite the Proteus cocktail — second-generation novas. (Remember what Ian Malcolm says in Jurassic Park about the congenitally rich?) The paragraph as written confuses her reflections on the children with some words that won't be said for months, and will come from somebody else anyway:
And, actually, most of her thoughts are of Mal:
One of my character notes formd_donighal is "Who would you be if the only thing you had to fear was yourself?"
October 17
[Aberrant] Bene "Bounty" Manata writes in her private journal about her work in the Nursery and how the children there compare to Mal.
The said "Nursery" is where the Terats raise the children they've managed to breed up despite the Proteus cocktail — second-generation novas. (Remember what Ian Malcolm says in Jurassic Park about the congenitally rich?) The paragraph as written confuses her reflections on the children with some words that won't be said for months, and will come from somebody else anyway:
Imagine the potential of a nova born nova — no need to "learn" quantum manipulation, they just know. Are you scared yet? [Ten or twenty] years from now, these marvels are going to make Mal look like a chump. Well, maybe not Mal.... And how do you think they'll feel toward baselines?
And, actually, most of her thoughts are of Mal:
his power is comforting in its absolute-ness. The serenity that emanates from him is incomparable. His presence is addictive.
Even from afar, even from his Chrysalis, his presence permeates the world. The children can feel him, as if he were here and they sense that he's their father — if not physically, then spiritually. When I [...] close my eyes and extend my mind out to him, I see him, and he is pulsating with energy, with potential. His eyes are closed but his node is awake, changing right before me, a being of ultimate perfection forcing himself to evolve. [...]
[A]nd yet, I cannot shake my feeling of unease. Even with the inhuman Harvesters I don't have this feeling. No matter how freakish they look, I can still feel that they were once human and baseline. Not with Mal. Like the children, he possesses a certain detachment, an abstract bemusement that makes him at once a visionary and a demon.
One of my character notes for
md_donighal is "Who would you be if the only thing you had to fear was yourself?"