I would never take it off without explicit permission to do so. I've lived this way my whole life once I created this mask.
I'm not suggesting you shouldn't trust me. But I haven't done enough research - I haven't cared to - on what specific phrases or impulses could affect a person and how. And anything I have done was before I realized how powerful my voice is.
I made someone think it was perfectly acceptable to strip naked and do a jig in the town square as a kid. And it took a lot of talking on my part to get him to stop.
I don't want to cause harm to you. A wound can be bandaged, a bone splinted, but the mind. The mind can be much more delicate than we expect. And I hold yours in great esteem.
Of course, I would do everything in my power to reverse things if it goes wrong. But I do not want it going wrong in the first place.
[Worry ties itself into knots in Sylvan's stomach. It's one thing to give a surface-level desire to someone. It's another to delve... potentially deeper. Even if only on accident. Xander rarely relaxes, after all, and so to impose the will to do so might reach deeper than Sylvan expects. He theorizes that there's good reason that Xander is always so vigilant. And if he doesn't phrase himself well enough...]
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Date: 2021-05-09 01:36 am (UTC)I'm not suggesting you shouldn't trust me. But I haven't done enough research - I haven't cared to - on what specific phrases or impulses could affect a person and how. And anything I have done was before I realized how powerful my voice is.
I made someone think it was perfectly acceptable to strip naked and do a jig in the town square as a kid. And it took a lot of talking on my part to get him to stop.
I don't want to cause harm to you. A wound can be bandaged, a bone splinted, but the mind. The mind can be much more delicate than we expect. And I hold yours in great esteem.
Of course, I would do everything in my power to reverse things if it goes wrong. But I do not want it going wrong in the first place.
[Worry ties itself into knots in Sylvan's stomach. It's one thing to give a surface-level desire to someone. It's another to delve... potentially deeper. Even if only on accident. Xander rarely relaxes, after all, and so to impose the will to do so might reach deeper than Sylvan expects. He theorizes that there's good reason that Xander is always so vigilant. And if he doesn't phrase himself well enough...]