002 STAGE 2

[uranophobe]

[Well, well, well, isn't this exciting. A considerable improvement over that last strange occurrence. It appears that everyone in this town, for some reason, is unable to lie-- not only that, they're compelled to tell the truth to whoever will listen. And Crane is a very good listener.

Well, he wouldn't be much a scientist if he didn't use this

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[Stage 3]

[puzzlerprince]

...myself.

[Wait. Why are you telling him this, Eddie?]

[uranophobe]

I can't see why. You're not very intimidating. [because trollface.jpg]

[puzzlerprince]

You don't know the extent of my compulsions, Jonathan. You don't know what I'm capable of.

[STOP TALKING]

[uranophobe]

Oh, really? Elaborate, won't you? [of course you will]

[Stage 4]

[iheartcabbage]

What does every human fear? Rejection.

[uranophobe]

True, that's a very common one.

Do you fear rejection in general, or from a specific person?

[iheartcabbage]

A... mixture of both, I guess. I wanted to prove myself to my parents, but they were always too busy to bother noticing. Tried my hardest to get into a decent college only to get rejected again. Never really had any good friends, I won't even mention anything in the girlfriend department. It's just... something I hate and have dealt with my whole life.

[uranophobe]

Ah, a sense of inadequacy stemming from early parental rejection. How Freudian.

Were you rejected by those two people you killed? [ALWAYS LISTENING ALWAYS]

[weiss_tank]

Why do you wanna know?

[uranophobe]

I wish to exploit the fears of others in order to continue my research.

Yeah, still level 1

[weiss_tank]

That is really fuckin' creepy, ya know that?

[uranophobe]

I've been called that more times than you can imagine, child. And I don't care.

[the_wee_big_hag]

Myself.

[...why did she just tell a random stranger that.]

[uranophobe]

Any particular reason why?

[the_wee_big_hag]

Because I'm a witch. And quite a powerful one. And if I don't have people watching me, or keep an eye on myself it's very likely that I'll lose control do some serious damage before I can be taken down.

[Tiffany's usually honest...in her own ways. But she doesn't usually mention how powerful she is/could be.]

[uranophobe]

Which do you fear more: The being "taken down" part, or losing control of yourself?

stage 3, awww yeah

[glowing_science]

Failure. Being alone. People dying because of me. Being useless and unable to help people. My uselessness leading people to die. This town. Death.

And thunderstorms, kind of.

[uranophobe]

Kind of? [don't think this means he's ignoring the other bits all of this is getting written down]

[glowing_science]

They make me feel twitchy. I don't like them. At all.

It... kind of stems back to when I was fourteen. Most of it does, actually. [Wait, why does she feel the need to tell him this now? At the very least, she should have tried to schedule an appointment with him first.

Still, she can't stop herself.]

My parents died in a car accident when I was seven, which was terrible enough to deal with. And then I was nearly murdered by a serial killer when I was fourteen. In the police station, of all places--I was waiting for my sister to finish her shift. She was a homicide detective at the time. They had the man in custody, but the power failed because of a thunderstorm and he panicked and bolted. He found me. And he meant to kill me. I would have died if another man, a prosecutor, hadn't have jumped in to save my life

[uranophobe]

[note to self: see if Asshole Lex Luthor has invented weather-control device yet, steal it from him]

Many people have negative associations with thunderstorms, myself included. [He pauses a bit.] Terrible things can happen in the dark.