This is the addition I added to Yog's plan, referring to the gift we got from Mab.
[X] Plan Designing Greatness V2
-[X] Offer to help
--[X] You yourself are growing. You have a feeling that you can develop a power to design miraculous objects - magical items straight from fantasy books. When you do, you will make him something to allow him to grasp the power he so wants. Not necessary a crutch, but something to allow him to gain power of his own.
---[X] Work together with him to work out what exactly is that he wants in terms of power. You make no promises of being able to make exactly that, but it's good to know what sort of ability he strives for.
----[X]You will be getting an emergency veil talisman with this gift though. This is nonnegotiable. If a Denarian snatch squad gets you and uses you to trolley problem me or dad...
----[X] Empathy excellency
----[X] Stunt: You sit down with Daniel, and dump a load of D&D books, and other media, such as superhero comics, on the table, a fresh character sheet in front of you. Thrusting a cup of cocoa in front of him, you open the first one: "So, let's design who you want to be, shall we?"
-[X] Offer training
--[X] You now have access to trainers and masters of their arts unknown on Earth. If he is willing, you can arrange for him to be trained in the Courts over vacations at least.
---[X] Christmas vacation is coming up soon and he'll have two weeks off from school. Some of that will need to be spent with the family and Lydia, of course, but we can arrange for him to visit our realm for 9 or 10 days (assuming our parents consent). While there, he'll be trained (i.e. worked into the ground) in FCF combat, weaponry, technology, etc., and sorcery if he proves capable.
---[X] This is only an introduction, however, a chance for him to get his feet wet and an opportunity no one else from Earth has benefited from so far. If he does well and impresses his instructors, we can make further arrangements for him to visit on the weekends, culminating in a more rigorous course over the upcoming Summer.
I don't think Molly gets that accurate a read on her own future powers.
Also, I'm pretty sure Mab's gift wouldn't really help him.
It's basically locked to helpless children, if he gets even a little taste of power it won't activate for him:
From the way it weighs in the hand you know it would not work for you, it would not work for anyone with power but in the hands of a child in peril it would erect a ward around them turning aside first the gaze of any hunters. A gift to match the car or a peace offering for what happened last summer you wonder. Maybe it's even both
Instead we should learn Harry's SOP field potion and just get him to carry one around that we refresh on a weekly basis.
Most spirits are.
Whether or not angels work under the same rules is open to debate.
We have seen the Fallen and Mac as two different instances, and they dont seem at all similar.
Bob is pretty explicit about it, and while he isn't always right what he said conformed to what we know of the general rules and to what we see in the setting details specifically.
Mac is something different, but it's not clear what his whole deal is.
If you're going to make assertions like this I think you need stronger evidence countermanding the stuff explicitly stated than appealing to the idea Bob was wrong in a way that's convenient for your purposes.
Daniel is 16. He cant vote. He cant drink, or drive after nightfall, or own a firearm, or sign a legal contract, or join the military.
Acting like he is somehow entitled to the right to bear weapons and be killing people or holding the power of life or death over them is a specious argument in my opinion.
Michael is 50ish.
He was an adult when he was drafted, he was vetted by an Archangel, he literally carries an Angel in his sword, and his home and family have angelic protections. The fact that you are trying to compare Daniel to him boggles my mind.
He is our brother, not our subject.
We dont have the ability to command him to "train till it sticks" without using the same Exalt-specific Excellencies that you are just complaining deprives him of agency. And we would come into conflict with our family and friends doing so
Man, talk about denying agency, no chances at all he would grow resentful or anything, or that Lydia would... seriously, he is not *a liability*, he is Molly's brother, denying him in these grounds, when we are able to make him matter at that, to protect him with our craft and by training him, is dishonest.
Also, not to put too fine a point on it, agency and ability aren't the same thing.
If you're a double amputee you're no less of a person than you ever were, but you're probably not as good at physically demanding tasks anymore.
If my brother lost an arm and leg and then asked me to help him make it to the Paralympics I'd do what I could to support his training. If he came to me asking for assistance loopholing his way into the infantry I'd try to talk him into doing something else.
He can make his choices, but that doesn't mean they're all good ones or that supporting him equates to enabling whatever he thinks he wants to do right now. Nor is standing aside if we think he's making a mistake.
Not that we should physically restrain him, but no one seriously expects their friends and family to watch in stoic silence while they screw up for the sake of respecting their agency.
There is a line, but part of having family and close relationships in general is that they'll have some level of involvement in your decision making process. If we come to the conclusion that he can't be reasonably safe doing this making a good faith argument to him about it wouldn't be immoral or unfair.
I'm still going back and forth on empowering him, but I think the idea that we need to do the equivalent of building him Iron Man's power armor or setting him up with tutoring from Batman to avoid denying his agency is ridiculous.