This touches on some of the same things as azdoine did in parts of this ask chain, and I think you’re both right. Whether the sexual relationships following are rape or not, the act of using a parapower to (intentionally and without a consenting subject) change someone’s mind permanently, in the first place, should be […]

Yeah, this kind of perspective is exactly why I found myself asking the question of “is this actually rape” in the first place. There is consent, but the victim was forced to become the kind of person who would consent. Where do we draw the line between the legal status of someone who’s had their […]

I’m going to take a break from asks for a bit, but when I come back, I’m going to be responding to your inputs on the question I raised regarding rape and consent, which I’ve saved for last. If you’re not comfortable with that topic, you may want to sit the remaining asks for this chapter out.

1. Yeah, makes sense. 2. This is pretty much what I was talking about when I realized why Paige didn’t count against the hypothesized rarity of mind control – or rather, why the hypothesized rarity of mind control only applied to direct control. That said, I do still call Paige’s power mind control, just “indirect”, […]

I don’t think the powers are really that analogous in method, but more importantly, they do share some potential uses… I think you’re right, it’s kind of interesting that Canary and Heartbreaker were introduced in adjacent chapters. “Here are two people who committed sexual assault with mindbending powers, compare and contrast.” Canary could absolutely do […]