"Yes," Chrollo says easily in response, not sure if it's better or worse that this is someone he has met before.
It's a question Chrollo doesn't mind talking about as much, he's sure that the phrase makes it sound worse than it is. Or perhaps it's his perspective that's warped after so long living as a villain of his own design.
"The way magic works in my world is heavily based on the perception of the person using it," Chrollo explains. "For example, consider an ability that animates inanimate objects. It might work on a doll made of wool, or a puppet carved from wood, or even something made from leather, or an animal corpse, but not human corpse. Someone else with a similar ability might only be able to animate the wooden puppet because plants are the only formerly living things they view as acceptable targets, or they could use it on all of them because to them, a corpse of any variety is just another inanimate mass."
Learning the unwritten limits of an ability while finding better ways to use it than the original owner is possibly the thing Chrollo enjoys the most these days. Even seemingly useless abilities had their uses in the right hands and the right situation.
"Which isn't to say that reality has no part in it. Someone with an ability that excludes living things can't accidentally make it work on something alive no matter how much they are convinced their target is dead."
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It's a question Chrollo doesn't mind talking about as much, he's sure that the phrase makes it sound worse than it is. Or perhaps it's his perspective that's warped after so long living as a villain of his own design.
"The way magic works in my world is heavily based on the perception of the person using it," Chrollo explains. "For example, consider an ability that animates inanimate objects. It might work on a doll made of wool, or a puppet carved from wood, or even something made from leather, or an animal corpse, but not human corpse. Someone else with a similar ability might only be able to animate the wooden puppet because plants are the only formerly living things they view as acceptable targets, or they could use it on all of them because to them, a corpse of any variety is just another inanimate mass."
Learning the unwritten limits of an ability while finding better ways to use it than the original owner is possibly the thing Chrollo enjoys the most these days. Even seemingly useless abilities had their uses in the right hands and the right situation.
"Which isn't to say that reality has no part in it. Someone with an ability that excludes living things can't accidentally make it work on something alive no matter how much they are convinced their target is dead."