I think I can see where she’s going with this, but now how she expects to work. Unless her mind is in the same shape as that mirror, she’s going to know it was her who disfigured herself, not the mask, thereby defeating the point of the act.
Unless this is the part where the Commedia decides to check in on the scream and insane laughter coming through the door.
Aww comment got deleted with the fix. Basically I believe Vogue is about to double up the irony magic. If the ironic false fear of removing the mask and becoming ugly is a source of great power then making yourself ugly and reinforcing that lie by making it seem as truth should be an even more powerful form of irony magic.
Original mask Irony power –> Reassert the lie by making yourself ugly –> become even more powerful based on the same type of Irony power.
O-kay, if I ever caught *my* kid cutting herself “ironically,” I’d whip her into therapy for excessive hipster-ism so fast, she’d think she was setting a new trend.
The way to exploit this double-jeapordy irony is to put the mask back on and rely on others’ misconceptions and assumptions to do the work for you. Although…
If one can make others *believe* that one has removed ones mask, faced the horror beneath, and *overcame* it, then their belief in ones own power would become near-worshipful, would it not?
yes but you should also take into consideration that she is both power hungry and a bit off her rocker at this point. That’s not a healthy font on that laughter nor the look of a sane mind on her face.
I still get the feeling Vogue’s playing to Keshi’s tune here. To explain, the current theory about the masks negative effects are that they take effect through the action of putting the mask on, or is some innate power within the masks like the ‘power’ it gives to them, these pages seem to indicate something else, the opposite in fact. Removing the mask has led Vogue to a position where she has been driven mad and is a few seconds from disfiguring herself, the two negative effects of removing the mask that Keshi warned her about. Another thing to consider is that like a great many things, there is always another side to the warning he gave her. The first part is about to come true, by Vogue’s own hand no less, and as for the second part regarding her horrible reflection driving her mad? What more horrible reflection could one seeking power see but a vision of themself with no power at all?
Um… But can she disfigure herself at her current condition? She has glamour, doesn’t she? Won’t it hide whatever she’s planning to do with this mirror piece?
Vogue is gonna turn herself ugly? ._.
O-kay, *now* she’s scaring me!
When in doubt, “Blood For The Blood God!”
LOL
I think I can see where she’s going with this, but now how she expects to work. Unless her mind is in the same shape as that mirror, she’s going to know it was her who disfigured herself, not the mask, thereby defeating the point of the act.
Unless this is the part where the Commedia decides to check in on the scream and insane laughter coming through the door.
hmm
Aww comment got deleted with the fix. Basically I believe Vogue is about to double up the irony magic. If the ironic false fear of removing the mask and becoming ugly is a source of great power then making yourself ugly and reinforcing that lie by making it seem as truth should be an even more powerful form of irony magic.
Original mask Irony power –> Reassert the lie by making yourself ugly –> become even more powerful based on the same type of Irony power.
O-kay, if I ever caught *my* kid cutting herself “ironically,” I’d whip her into therapy for excessive hipster-ism so fast, she’d think she was setting a new trend.
The way to exploit this double-jeapordy irony is to put the mask back on and rely on others’ misconceptions and assumptions to do the work for you. Although…
If one can make others *believe* that one has removed ones mask, faced the horror beneath, and *overcame* it, then their belief in ones own power would become near-worshipful, would it not?
yes but you should also take into consideration that she is both power hungry and a bit off her rocker at this point. That’s not a healthy font on that laughter nor the look of a sane mind on her face.
Let’s not forget in her ‘true’ form she’s a hideous hobgoblin.
Nah, that’s the form imposed upon her by a callous and cold-hearted society; in her true form, she is glorious, beautiful evil!
Aw man.
Don’t do it Vogue! Some prices are too costly for something as fickle as “power”…
I still get the feeling Vogue’s playing to Keshi’s tune here. To explain, the current theory about the masks negative effects are that they take effect through the action of putting the mask on, or is some innate power within the masks like the ‘power’ it gives to them, these pages seem to indicate something else, the opposite in fact. Removing the mask has led Vogue to a position where she has been driven mad and is a few seconds from disfiguring herself, the two negative effects of removing the mask that Keshi warned her about. Another thing to consider is that like a great many things, there is always another side to the warning he gave her. The first part is about to come true, by Vogue’s own hand no less, and as for the second part regarding her horrible reflection driving her mad? What more horrible reflection could one seeking power see but a vision of themself with no power at all?
Um… But can she disfigure herself at her current condition? She has glamour, doesn’t she? Won’t it hide whatever she’s planning to do with this mirror piece?