[UA] The Boy in the Box

[Chad Underkoffler]

> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 09:02:46 -0600
> From: Gregory Paul Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com>
> 
>> At 08:12 PM 02/10/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>>>When one is planned, the golden child takes the place of the 
>>>whipping boy, and everything seems fine (part of the magick
>>>makes the two look identical).
>>
>>Why not make them identical twins?  The parents are occult 
>>practitioners who have identical (or perhaps Siamese) twins.  
>>Using proxy magic, they learn how to make the golden child a 
>>powerful Epideromancer prodigy who uses the whipping boy to 
>>build charges.  Pretty straight forward but not any less
>>creepy.
>
>Eh, it might work just as well with mundane twins.  Why resort
>to having the parents be occultists when you don't need to?
 
I see it as: making the parents occultists gives rhyme/reason to
the abuse of one of the twins. 

Hm. This may be what lies behind the WoD-mentality of "put the
strangeness/mcguffin/critter behind historical events." By
ascribing something to the Other or to a Specific Purpose, you
create seeming Order out of Chaos.

Pattern matching.

That's why there's a Lone Gunman, Magic Bullet, and JFK
Conspiracy.

That's why the Priory of Sion is manipulating French politics.

That's why the British royal family runs drugs out of Columbia.

Makes sense to me.

(Also, it's more entertaining.)



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