You live on this Earth, and yet you've never heard of Shadowhunters. ( to be fair, it's not as if the six o clock news is really played out within the walls of the institute. so much of what the world would call mutants passing her family and those like them would call downworlders — the recent developments often are brushed aside as just identities lost in translation. ) I suppose it's not that surprising that the secret worlds would stay apart.
( she considers him for a moment. tall, strong, clearly capable. he'd be an asset. someone worth aligning with, if only to protect cities in their absence. something he's clearly doing already. )
Your abilities are unique. I assume others — the mutants — are unique as well?
Are the Shadowhunters some kind of out-and-about organization?
[ He's got enough to worry about without going looking for more trouble in the name of demons, or whatever it is Isabelle hunts. Shadows. He's got more than enough on his plate with what's in plain daylight. ]
Mutants aren't much of a secret anymore.
[ Maybe her world is full enough that she doesn't need to add Mutants to her plate, either. Which he can understand. But this - her help, and her strength, is something they would definitely benefit from having on their side. ]
They are. We all have a different set of skills. Some are mundane, banal little things. Some are incredible, cities-leveling kind of powers. Which is why we're terrifying to humans.
What about Shadowunters? Do you have unique abilities?
( her head tilts to the side for a moment as she considers him, arms coming up to cross loosely over her chest. mutants may no longer be a secret in the world of mundanes, and if she's especially honest, she can't very well say she's surprised. something beyond the everyday is nearly impossible to ignore when it's right in front of you, after all; she can't blame the mundanes for being simultaneously terrified and captivated by mutants when she was equally captivated herself. not that he had scared her, but then, it took a lot to scare isabelle lightwood.
she hums, low and soft under her breath, for a moment before the words finally align in her mouth. when she speaks, there's a hesitancy to it, a quietness that hasn't quite shown itself before. ) No. No, I suppose we aren't. To downworlders — to our demon parallels, those with the Sight, we are known. But we don't expose ourselves to the rest of the world. ( the corner of her mouth quirks up a bit as she considers him again. ) But you do.
( for that, isabelle can respect the mutants. reactions of mundanes can never be predicted, nor guaranteed as pleasant, and yet the mutants do not hide themselves regardless of the consequences. she can appreciate the courage in that. )
I suppose we're varied... in our own, small ways. My whip, my brother's arrows, Clary's runes. We each carry some small favor of the Angel in our training, something that sets us apart.
[ He heaves out a sigh, running a hand through his hair, probably looking at frustrated as he feels. The fact that they can't hide anymore, the new laws and the registers and the inability to be a secret these days makes life so much worse, for so many of them. ]
It'd be easier for a lot of us if we were still in hiding, but we haven't been in a long time. It's... some of us can't really hide what they are, or what they can do. Without the proper training, it can get really dangerous.
[ It's brave, or just plain stupid. That's why most of them are still in hiding whenever they can be. ]
So it's a - family thing? You have to be born with it, like us? Can anyone be born a Shadowhunter?
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Date: 2017-12-15 04:49 am (UTC)( she considers him for a moment. tall, strong, clearly capable. he'd be an asset. someone worth aligning with, if only to protect cities in their absence. something he's clearly doing already. )
Your abilities are unique. I assume others — the mutants — are unique as well?
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Date: 2017-12-18 11:08 am (UTC)[ He's got enough to worry about without going looking for more trouble in the name of demons, or whatever it is Isabelle hunts. Shadows. He's got more than enough on his plate with what's in plain daylight. ]
Mutants aren't much of a secret anymore.
[ Maybe her world is full enough that she doesn't need to add Mutants to her plate, either. Which he can understand. But this - her help, and her strength, is something they would definitely benefit from having on their side. ]
They are. We all have a different set of skills. Some are mundane, banal little things. Some are incredible, cities-leveling kind of powers. Which is why we're terrifying to humans.
What about Shadowunters? Do you have unique abilities?
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Date: 2017-12-18 05:28 pm (UTC)she hums, low and soft under her breath, for a moment before the words finally align in her mouth. when she speaks, there's a hesitancy to it, a quietness that hasn't quite shown itself before. ) No. No, I suppose we aren't. To downworlders — to our demon parallels, those with the Sight, we are known. But we don't expose ourselves to the rest of the world. ( the corner of her mouth quirks up a bit as she considers him again. ) But you do.
( for that, isabelle can respect the mutants. reactions of mundanes can never be predicted, nor guaranteed as pleasant, and yet the mutants do not hide themselves regardless of the consequences. she can appreciate the courage in that. )
I suppose we're varied... in our own, small ways. My whip, my brother's arrows, Clary's runes. We each carry some small favor of the Angel in our training, something that sets us apart.
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Date: 2018-01-02 12:45 pm (UTC)It'd be easier for a lot of us if we were still in hiding, but we haven't been in a long time. It's... some of us can't really hide what they are, or what they can do. Without the proper training, it can get really dangerous.
[ It's brave, or just plain stupid. That's why most of them are still in hiding whenever they can be. ]
So it's a - family thing? You have to be born with it, like us? Can anyone be born a Shadowhunter?