Yeah, due to the empathic nature of my QE's I often miss out on how others can be rather less compassionate than I am. It is something I need to work on.
I've also had to put up with the bigotry that the untainted (or less tainted) novas have toward the heavily aberrated ones.

That's one way to look at it. Another is that despite all the thick syrupy compassion you feel for Cull, you lack a certain empathy for his victims. Maybe your QE works against you there.

No empathy for the dead.

No empathy for the dead? Bullshit on that.

Stopping Cull today isn't going to make us any safer tomorrow. Far from it. It will only drive more novas into concealing and repressing the most baneful of aberrations until the fear and anger rips them apart.
I do feel for the victims of Cull. I also feel for the thousands and thousands of victims that will result if we don't deal with the difficulties of what we are becoming because we find these problems to be ugly, or uncomfortable.

To put it into another perspective; compare Cull to Deathsquad. Cull is dangerous to dozens. DS is dangerous to tens of thousands. DS is that way because he wracked up an impressive amount of taint and aberrations over his ten years of being an elite and no one went to him and tried to deal with those problems before he became too dangerous to deal with.
As we novas get older and more powerful, we accumulate more taint and more aberrations. It is not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

Sorry. As an addendum, I would like to add that if a nova dorms down and never uses his/her QE's, I theorize they won't gain taint. There is a way to stay safe. Just don't be a nova.

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Why do I even bother?

Because we need all the help we can get?

Hey Ash.

The help I can give is not the help that is desired.

Cuz you helped some folks here. Well, at least, me?

Fuck, Lady. Why you think I went searching for the Dark Lady and then hooked up with my Princess?

Cuz a you.

I'm starting to find my way out of the darkness and the light I followed was blood red and oh so bright.

Just cuz not everyone has opened their fucking eyes ain't no reason to bail.

What he said.

Read your own stuff and tell me how much empathy you were showing for Bob the car salesman or Natalia the retired actress. Lots of compassion for Cull but not a tear or a word for the victims.

Complain if you like but I didn't hold a gun to your head when you were writing. Good question. I think the answer to that is suppose to come from you, not me or the rest of the Titans.

From The Blue and the Grey 2/12:

Man, believe what you will. I live my convictions, you live yours. I know how I feel about the situation.

Why would you stop me?

I do not eat good people.
I eat bad people.

Is that so hard to understand?

From The Blue and the Grey 2/13:
And I know how I feel about eatees.

Hey, look! Here's here he is now. You talk to him while I slip this around neck and hope he doesn't know anything about Norse Mythology.

Norse Mythology?

Ooooooh. Tell me a story big boy.

I often ask myself that very question

Well, you know, the word of Mal falls on stony ground sometimes and all that. If you illuminate the path for just one Nova then maybe it's all worth it.

What exactly is the 'word' of Mal? I'm betting its either "crimson" or "china red". That second one is a phrase not a 'word' but he's a nova so maybe he doesn't care about the little details. The cape has got to be a major clue.

Why else would anyone wear one?

Becouse to do anything else dear lady, would go against your very nature.

By Baseline standards I was being blasphemous and paraphrasing some Christian thingy. By Baseline standards.

Anyway dude, I thought you were in tune with the inner beauty and all that. Who gives a flying fuck whether the MASTERS of the COSMOS come wearing capes

And by nova standards? Just want to know what I have to add to the wardrobe to before I get promoted.

I've actually seen a nova make a poncho work really well. She kind of had this early Clint Eastwood-look to her.