"I'm starting to wonder if it's not a side effect of the ability, honestly."
He's learned that everyone's gift seems to come with a price, after all. His own hunger. Peter's need to connect with--trust--everyone, even if they might be using him. Mohinder's aggression. Everyone has something, some critical flaw that seems related to their power, and he's only realized that recently. He wasn't half as willing to hurt himself before he had Adam's ability, after all.
Or maybe people are just stranger than he's able to see. Maybe he's just that broken, and Peter's just that naive, and Mohinder's just that violent on his own. And maybe his own willingness to get hurt is less a cost to the ability and more his own habit of taking more than just an ability, when he kills something. He did pick up Isaac's artistic talent, after all. And Zane's ability to play guitar and his bashfulness in the right situations. And so on and so forth.
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Date: 2008-12-14 05:17 am (UTC)He's learned that everyone's gift seems to come with a price, after all. His own hunger. Peter's need to connect with--trust--everyone, even if they might be using him. Mohinder's aggression. Everyone has something, some critical flaw that seems related to their power, and he's only realized that recently. He wasn't half as willing to hurt himself before he had Adam's ability, after all.
Or maybe people are just stranger than he's able to see. Maybe he's just that broken, and Peter's just that naive, and Mohinder's just that violent on his own. And maybe his own willingness to get hurt is less a cost to the ability and more his own habit of taking more than just an ability, when he kills something. He did pick up Isaac's artistic talent, after all. And Zane's ability to play guitar and his bashfulness in the right situations. And so on and so forth.
"Or maybe it's just me."