open | sending crystal

[extramural]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: The Outsider
RECIPIENT: Open!
WHAT: A morbid question.
WHEN: mid-month
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Talk of death, horrifying things, the Outsider being himself.

Tell me. What would you consider a fate worse than death?

Comments

[extramural]

And being fully aware that it is happening?

[provenforce]

Yes.

[extramural]

The inability to fight back, while fully aware- that would truly be frightening.

You are not from this world. There are things such as that in your own?

[provenforce]

There are. It's... a talent some have. To pull memories and thoughts from someone by force, look into their heads. Also to be able to control another's movements with their mind.

[she takes a breath, like she's about to say something else, then decides against it. Obi-Wan had said the ability to look into another's mind was something that sith did. She still hadn't even told him that when Kylo Ren had been looking into her mind not only did she force him out, she was able to turn it back against him, and look into his mind.]

[extramural]

Can they remove the memories entirely?

[ That, at least, sounds distressing. ]

Do they stay in their body when they do this?

[ Magic users in his world can posses people and animals, control their actions, but they are truly within them for that period of time. ]

[provenforce]

I don't know. I've only... run into it once.

[The next question confuses her a little. Really jumping bodies?]

They do stay in their own bodies. But they can experience things like they're seeing and feeling the things of the person they're manipulating.

[extramural]

I imagine that makes them easy targets. Standing still, feeling what someone else is feeling, controlling them?

[ He knows it makes him an easier target when he sees through the eyes of beasts in Thedas, at least. ]