But you're hurting me from inside of my head

[have_your_lives]

[Filtered to the Legion of Doom, Edward Nigma, and pretty much everyone he's contacted in regards to this post]

I think our friend Nigma has, once again, neglected to consider the finer points of telepathy...as, perhaps, all of you may have. Namely, if he's asking you all for ways to defeat a telepath, then he doesn't have any now. So he's

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[cramschoolgod]

Naturally, if your telepathy is as strong as that, there's nothing he would have been able to do to avoid it eventually in the first place. And some strategies don't depend on information being private, which, one would hope, he is intelligent enough to discover or resourceful enough to research.

Additionally, there are things you may know but not understand. For example, Edward Nigma may be the organizer, but not necessarily be 'the horse' that is being bet on.

[have_your_lives]

What I understand is that Edward has a private grudge that he's trying to drag others into in order to settle. He begrudges me everything I am, so he'd have people like you help him kill me.

Up until now, I've been tolerant, since he's been nothing so much as amusing. If you're determined to help him become an actual threat, however...what happens to him, and to those who help him, is on your head, and your poor judgment.

[cramschoolgod]

It's like that, is it?

[She's interested in the outcome, though in honesty she doesn't care who wins, particularly as death is not permanent. She just wonders how one should defeat a telepath. She voices the rest of her thoughts openly:]

It would hardly be a fair or interesting contest if he didn't draw on all his resources, as he seems to be more or less a normal human, though one with a facility for puzzles. And one of those resources is his organizational abilities.

Still, I don't have any material advantages to offer him [advice not being material], in any case, so I think I'll consider myself mostly absolved from that responsibility.

[Pause.] Everything you are. You mean he's jealous of your telepathy, or something else besides?

[have_your_lives]

My telepathy, my intelligence, my good looks, my codename, my ability to actually succeed at things, my lack of daddy issues, the fact that I'm married to the woman he likes, the fact that the woman he likes probably trusts me more than him because he stabbed her in the back and got her messily killed...there's probably more, but it's honestly tedious to even think of them all. Men have certainly murdered for less.

The fact is that it's not a contest, except in his own head. I'm not trying to kill him...though I suppose if he keeps angling for a way to kill me, he might just force my hand.

[cramschoolgod]

Ah, I see. Yes, those are rather tedious reasons, aren't they? Only a few of them seem to have a good rational basis behind them, and at any rate, I would expect the proper solution to be developing oneself better, rather than defeating you. [Or stealing your powers away from you via some kind of transplant, she goes on to think. Or simply going into denial about the situation.]

Yes, well, in that case, I understand. [But she also intends to ask him about it, too, of course; not going to just take his word for it.]