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Bad Parenting
I think I finally tackled an analogy I've been working on for a while now.
Picture you had some terrible parents. They're constantly at odds with each other. It's not for certain that you're biologically theirs (though many believe you are), or that they didn't have you by accident.
A lot of people would not even be aware of these parents existing, and go along with their lives as if this was the case.
But others would take sides.
Let's say you went along with your dad. You agreed with him in everything, partly because you believe what he says, and partly because he gives you great rewards and weird powers. It's up to you which one of these is more important. In turn, you shun your mother and oppose her wherever you can.
Then it gets wonky. The thing is, you yourself are made of your two parents, more or less in equal amounts. But the more you go along with your dad, the less like your mother you resemble.
Say you had once her eyes? Well, not anymore. Her very genetic code gets slowly but steadily erased out of you. Eventually there's nothing but your dad in you.
This is what it would be like to follow either the concept of Law or Chaos too far. To think that the world would be better off with full order, or disorder, and forget that it needs both to exist. By mortal reckoning, the champions of either aspect are pretty legitimately insane.
Peal, in this analogy, would be well aware of his parentage, but choose to avoid both sides. Whenever one of the two is getting too powerful, he punches them in the groin. Peal is a problem child.
Picture you had some terrible parents. They're constantly at odds with each other. It's not for certain that you're biologically theirs (though many believe you are), or that they didn't have you by accident.
A lot of people would not even be aware of these parents existing, and go along with their lives as if this was the case.
But others would take sides.
Let's say you went along with your dad. You agreed with him in everything, partly because you believe what he says, and partly because he gives you great rewards and weird powers. It's up to you which one of these is more important. In turn, you shun your mother and oppose her wherever you can.
Then it gets wonky. The thing is, you yourself are made of your two parents, more or less in equal amounts. But the more you go along with your dad, the less like your mother you resemble.
Say you had once her eyes? Well, not anymore. Her very genetic code gets slowly but steadily erased out of you. Eventually there's nothing but your dad in you.
This is what it would be like to follow either the concept of Law or Chaos too far. To think that the world would be better off with full order, or disorder, and forget that it needs both to exist. By mortal reckoning, the champions of either aspect are pretty legitimately insane.
Peal, in this analogy, would be well aware of his parentage, but choose to avoid both sides. Whenever one of the two is getting too powerful, he punches them in the groin. Peal is a problem child.
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