'Something Wicked' Musings

[ithildin]

Watching Something Wicked, and it occured to me to wonder -- did the Holy Hot Tub reverse Mac back to a 'blank slate'? Was the fire bomber guy that much worse than Kronos? Not that anything about Dark Quickenings makes all that much sense, but a random thought.

Richie asking if the teacher kills the pupil was bittersweet. [sigh]

Oh, and the fire bomber guy when he was doing his beatnik poet thing about Death. Hah! Don't know why I never made that connection in my brain before.

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[pat-t.livejournal.com]

Now to actually try and answer your question the best way I can by the understanding I had. It wasn't that the fire-bomber was that bad.

It all stems from Coltec being a Hayoka - A native american Holy Man who takes evil into himself to protect his people and bring peace.

He has been taking in all this evil for centuries and like a cup that gets over-filled, when he took the fire-bomber's quickening, it was the evil quickening that ran over - his soul could not absorb anymore evil. The fire-bomber was simply the *last* quickening he took. And the one closest to the surface. But his dark quickening was that he was overloaded with evil now and *all* the evil inside him had saturated his personality and soul and his *true* self could not fight it.

Then when Duncan took Coltec's head - he absorbed all of Coltec's evil quickenings along with all the quickenings he had taken in his own 400 years.

Now all of a sudden his own personality and soul was saturated with all this evil and he tried to fight it, but he couldn't.