*whispers* Oh, finally. Guess how I feel... (Mind you, that's a pretty perfect reaction!)
I am in a strange way glad that the feeling of doom I was getting of this fic wasn't entirely me projecting my opinion of mind control (i.e. Very, Very Bad) onto it. Oh definitely not your your projection! I mean - it's a wonderful concept, and fascinating and all the rest, but would you want to be with someone who could just walk into your head and rearrange things without you being able to do anything to stop it? Or even know if it had already happened? Not to mention, he *is* the Master(I am the Master and you will obey me)'s son... She doesn't quite understand what that means at this point (or to what an extent he is his father's son), but she's able to make an educated guess. (Incidentally if you go back and read the scene at the end of Chapter 18 you should be able to tell how ambiguous it is. I wrote it so on purpose. Beautiful - but ambiguous.) /ramble
ETA: Oh and in Chapter 10, in the confrontation with the paparazzi photographer, he's definitely using some kind of mind control/hypnosis until Allison interrupts and he decides to go for a different 'solution'. (Which is, of course, to him much more lenient - the guy gets a choice, rather than having his will subjugated...)
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Guess how I feel... (Mind you, that's a pretty perfect reaction!)
I am in a strange way glad that the feeling of doom I was getting of this fic wasn't entirely me projecting my opinion of mind control (i.e. Very, Very Bad) onto it.
Oh definitely not your your projection! I mean - it's a wonderful concept, and fascinating and all the rest, but would you want to be with someone who could just walk into your head and rearrange things without you being able to do anything to stop it? Or even know if it had already happened? Not to mention, he *is* the Master(I am the Master and you will obey me)'s son... She doesn't quite understand what that means at this point (or to what an extent he is his father's son), but she's able to make an educated guess. (Incidentally if you go back and read the scene at the end of Chapter 18 you should be able to tell how ambiguous it is. I wrote it so on purpose. Beautiful - but ambiguous.) /ramble
ETA: Oh and in Chapter 10, in the confrontation with the paparazzi photographer, he's definitely using some kind of mind control/hypnosis until Allison interrupts and he decides to go for a different 'solution'. (Which is, of course, to him much more lenient - the guy gets a choice, rather than having his will subjugated...)