He knows the agreement, but they need something. Because there was no disconnect in that fight, with Yennefer and the myriapod mentally feeling so close to him while his mind bobbed over and under the waves of Istredd, trying to keep afloat long enough to sever the creature's head off with hands more than the blade. And only then, partially, get a gulp of oxygen to his own head after the myriapod was taken out.
How do you make an off switch once the danger has passed?
(Maybe not have immediate mental trauma of a different variety.)
He sits across from Istredd as directed.
"That... might be enough. Because ah, not to be a Negative Nancy but given how thing went when I'd have preferred to be in my 'right' mind, but..." He's still referring to the fight where the barest fraction of him wanted to hold back, not his attempt to smother Istredd's feelings afterwards, though in a way that's relevant too--he did pull away with a gentle push. "I don't know if you'd be able to get everything back to yourself regardless of whether or not you succeed in dealing with my Worst Case Scenario."
Oh, Istredd would likely win. Lucifer trusts Istredd's mental prowess.
But if Lucifer doesn't want to be pulled back and sees failure approaching him, he has this funny feelings now that he'll just take as much of Istredd's mind down with him.
So. Really. Stronger walls are great! Stronger walls that can be broken down in a myriapod-level emergency are great!
He doesn't see much hope for either of them coming out of an Apocalyptic-level Lucifer.
He's not helping. Sorry. Really, he just thinks it's better to not consider the be-all end-all situation because it corrupts the data.
It's just that breaking things down just seems like extra work.
Lucifer understands a mental scope but he's never had to deal with walls and security measures. Any mind he's broken into didn't have more than tissue paper. Lucifer still operates way more on the abstract and less on the concrete, but he doesn't know how far they could take concrete on a metaphysical level.
"How abstract are we talking here?"
It's all the talk of floods and drowning, really. You take a metaphor a long enough way, eventually you're going to look into real-world solutions to mental problems and he's not sure how possible it is that they'll translate.
"Do we have some wiggle room for.... mm... walls versus doors versus... gates?"
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Date: 2023-10-20 01:15 am (UTC)How do you make an off switch once the danger has passed?
(Maybe not have immediate mental trauma of a different variety.)
He sits across from Istredd as directed.
"That... might be enough. Because ah, not to be a Negative Nancy but given how thing went when I'd have preferred to be in my 'right' mind, but..." He's still referring to the fight where the barest fraction of him wanted to hold back, not his attempt to smother Istredd's feelings afterwards, though in a way that's relevant too--he did pull away with a gentle push. "I don't know if you'd be able to get everything back to yourself regardless of whether or not you succeed in dealing with my Worst Case Scenario."
Oh, Istredd would likely win. Lucifer trusts Istredd's mental prowess.
But if Lucifer doesn't want to be pulled back and sees failure approaching him, he has this funny feelings now that he'll just take as much of Istredd's mind down with him.
So. Really. Stronger walls are great! Stronger walls that can be broken down in a myriapod-level emergency are great!
He doesn't see much hope for either of them coming out of an Apocalyptic-level Lucifer.
He's not helping. Sorry. Really, he just thinks it's better to not consider the be-all end-all situation because it corrupts the data.
It's just that breaking things down just seems like extra work.
Lucifer understands a mental scope but he's never had to deal with walls and security measures. Any mind he's broken into didn't have more than tissue paper. Lucifer still operates way more on the abstract and less on the concrete, but he doesn't know how far they could take concrete on a metaphysical level.
"How abstract are we talking here?"
It's all the talk of floods and drowning, really. You take a metaphor a long enough way, eventually you're going to look into real-world solutions to mental problems and he's not sure how possible it is that they'll translate.
"Do we have some wiggle room for.... mm... walls versus doors versus... gates?"