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[cuttypie]

Who: Luka Kovač
Username: un: 13371uk@
Warnings: None so far


[He know he's playing a dangerous game here. That's why he's on audio instead of video, in case he...slips up. Being an Avatar of the Stranger had both its benefits and its downsides, and sometimes he couldn't quite...help the way he looks, especially if he gets a whiff of fear. His voice is pleasant and perfectly normal, with a melodious Croatian accent.]

Hello everyone, this is Dr. Luka Kovač. If I haven't met you yet, I'm a doctor who specializes in emergency medicine.

Some things I still don't understand here, so maybe someone else might have some information or thoughts on it. I come from a world where you don't really see too much of the supernatural around, but here there are superpowers and superheros and terrifying things that happen all the time.

And I guess Avatars have the power to make those terrifying things happen, right? To feed the Entities? But what gives them that power?

I suppose what I was really wondering is that maybe some of the people we've encountered used to be good and then were corrupted, somehow. I'm a doctor, the first thing I look for is a way to treat the patient, maybe even so far as find a cure.

But is there a cure for an Avatar?

Comments

[musicdied]

I think you would have to sever their connection with their patron to cure them, and from everything I've heard on the subject, that is difficult to do even for people who haven't hit that tipping point.

Sending them into remission, to extend the metaphor, might be easier. But either way, it's something they would have to want. Katie Dunn is proof enough that forcing the matter doesn't work.

[cuttypie]

Do you know how to sever this connection? But you’re right, if it is that difficult…

…perhaps remission is the safest way.

I talked to Katie Dunn, I thought I could reach her.

I was wrong.

[musicdied]

Nothing for certain. Just that the few stories I've been able to find have involved sacrificing more than just the magic, and that was just normal renunciates, not Avatars. It's possible that there are other ways, but...it fits with what the Entities are. Binding the people they've claimed more tightly to them by making the only way to escape terrifying.

...I don't think there was anything to reach. Even if Katie Dunn wasn't already a monster when ADI caught her, the way they decided to deal with her could not have been a better way to make her one if they'd had that as the end goal.