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Post by swankivy on Jul 30, 2010 22:36:58 GMT -5
Call the Cops
This is the second time Ivy has flown into someone's apartment and made contact with the inhabitants. The first time, the older couple who fed her and let her stay the night didn't call the police. This time, it's the first thing on the woman's mind. Similarly, the fruit stand owner never contacted the police upon finding a wandering baby, but the restaurant employees started to make the call immediately. In her case, what do you think determines how soon people contact the police?
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Post by SHO! on Jul 30, 2010 23:14:03 GMT -5
Call the CopsThis is the second time Ivy has flown into someone's apartment and made contact with the inhabitants. The first time, the older couple who fed her and let her stay the night didn't call the police. This time, it's the first thing on the woman's mind. Similarly, the fruit stand owner never contacted the police upon finding a wandering baby, but the restaurant employees started to make the call immediately. In her case, what do you think determines how soon people contact the police? It seems to be the degree of the strangeness of the situation. I don't recall the restaurant people precisely, but in the other cases the people witnessed something supernatural and reacted to what Amanda was doing rather than what she was, a little girl without close adult care. In this case there was just the oddity of a toddler being there where none should have been. The woman immediately assumed something as mundane as Amanda just wandering in through an unlocked door. She then reacted to Amanda herself and a much more normal situation.
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Post by wright on Jul 31, 2010 12:13:37 GMT -5
swankivy pretty much summed it up. In the cases where Ivy did something obviously "impossible", it took time for the witnesses to come to terms with it. Once they had some kind of rationalization or context for what they'd seen, they could react to her as a young child.
Of course individuals vary. Ivy has fortunately not encountered anyone who has been so frightened as to try to use a weapon to "defend" (as they might see it) themselves.
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Post by Crys on Aug 2, 2010 15:12:12 GMT -5
Ivy isn't exactly normal, even without flying. Those people will notice her ears and hands sooner or later, I wonder how they'll treat her then?
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Post by swankivy on Aug 3, 2010 1:28:42 GMT -5
Yeah, I think that as soon as anything starts flying around the room, people start thinking more in terms of "OMG what's going on?" than terms of "oh how can I help the poor lost baby?" They obviously think something supernatural is happening and wouldn't necessarily think of her as a missing human child anymore. (If they even pick her up they should notice that something is amiss; she finds it very hard to trust her weight to people!) Those people will notice her ears and hands sooner or later, I wonder how they'll treat her then? Maybe. Not everyone notices that sort of thing. But even if they do, it doesn't make them think she's a supernatural creature unless it's combined with the unexplained levitation. It's surprising how unobservant people can sometimes be.
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Post by SHO! on Aug 6, 2010 12:47:22 GMT -5
swankivy pretty much summed it up. *AHEM*
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Post by SHO! on Aug 13, 2010 23:04:51 GMT -5
Yeah, I think that as soon as anything starts flying around the room, people start thinking more in terms of "OMG what's going on?" than terms of "oh how can I help the poor lost baby?" They obviously think something supernatural is happening and wouldn't necessarily think of her as a missing human child anymore. (If they even pick her up they should notice that something is amiss; she finds it very hard to trust her weight to people!) Those people will notice her ears and hands sooner or later, I wonder how they'll treat her then? Maybe. Not everyone notices that sort of thing. But even if they do, it doesn't make them think she's a supernatural creature unless it's combined with the unexplained levitation. It's surprising how unobservant people can sometimes be. Also, it's been my observation that when people notice a deformity, they usual try to pretend they don't see it. They really don't even mention it unless the possessor of said deformity (or the parent/guardian if it is a minor) shows an interests in discussing it first.
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