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DF Spoilers / Zoo Day and the great Masquerade
« on: July 25, 2018, 12:36:50 PM »
So, one of the longstanding aspects of the Dresden Files is that somehow, despite there being no real coordinated effort to hide the Supernatural, the mortal world maintains a nigh supernatural ability to simply ignore what happens around them and move on with their lives. Everytime this comes up the explanation is more or less that Humans are great at ignoring things that make them uncomfortable, and have managed to hide the Truth from the collective human society without any significant effort.
Zoo Day showed us that this is actually a much deeper, actively reinforced function of our world. Turns out that every child is Trained, actively and with purpose, that there exist things that will prey on them but that nobody in Authority will be capable of recognizing or remembering, so it's better for yourself and everyone to handle it however you can, tell nobody, and move one with your life. What's more, it seems like this is a specific charge and function of these Creepers, something that divinity like Mouse is Required to respect.
The Children of the DV are all being Conditioned from an early age to pretend that anything labeled supernatural cannot (not Will Not, CANnot) be recognized by Authority, and you will be labeled crazy if you try to make them. So Dont Try. This is a patterned response that a whole class of creature exists solely and specifically to Train into mortals from an early age.
Zoo Day showed us that this is actually a much deeper, actively reinforced function of our world. Turns out that every child is Trained, actively and with purpose, that there exist things that will prey on them but that nobody in Authority will be capable of recognizing or remembering, so it's better for yourself and everyone to handle it however you can, tell nobody, and move one with your life. What's more, it seems like this is a specific charge and function of these Creepers, something that divinity like Mouse is Required to respect.
The Children of the DV are all being Conditioned from an early age to pretend that anything labeled supernatural cannot (not Will Not, CANnot) be recognized by Authority, and you will be labeled crazy if you try to make them. So Dont Try. This is a patterned response that a whole class of creature exists solely and specifically to Train into mortals from an early age.