[ Cisco, for his part, dismisses that weird gap in his memory almost at once, and is blissfully unaware of both the fact that Teddy notices it and is troubled by it. He answers all of Teddy's questions happily, picking up a tiny screwdriver from the cluttered desk and making tiny adjustments to some of the screws on the vibe goggles as he does ]
Oh, no, I got almost no control over it. I managed to deliberately trigger a useful vision, like, once. Most of the time what happens is I'll be scared out of my mind and then just see random awful stuff from my life or someone else's. That's why I'm making the goggles. So I can control when it happens, and what I see. As for the future... other timeline... other universe... what the hell am I even seeing thing, I just go based on context clues, and intuition.
[ This is the problem with talking about his powers; so much of how they work feels so deeply unscientific. Cisco doesn't even have the vocabulary to describe the weird emotional bleed over from the things he sees, or the strange distorted ways he sees the world, warped and blue-tinted and so overwhelming. ]
It's still too erratic for me to have much of a 'usually', but you're, like... the fourth person I ever told. I guess maybe the second, since two of them guessed on their own so that wasn't really... anyway, it's not something I'm exactly posting about on facebook, you know?
[ He grins, hoping that Teddy understands what he's saying: that by telling him, he is trusting him, is inviting him into a pretty tiny, select group of people who he had disclosed this information to. ]
That's kinda funny. I mean, the reason I told Billy about my powers was because his sounded so similar, I thought he could help me. And he did. He's the one who figured out it was fear triggering my visions. That was a huge deal...
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Oh, no, I got almost no control over it. I managed to deliberately trigger a useful vision, like, once. Most of the time what happens is I'll be scared out of my mind and then just see random awful stuff from my life or someone else's. That's why I'm making the goggles. So I can control when it happens, and what I see. As for the future... other timeline... other universe... what the hell am I even seeing thing, I just go based on context clues, and intuition.
[ This is the problem with talking about his powers; so much of how they work feels so deeply unscientific. Cisco doesn't even have the vocabulary to describe the weird emotional bleed over from the things he sees, or the strange distorted ways he sees the world, warped and blue-tinted and so overwhelming. ]
It's still too erratic for me to have much of a 'usually', but you're, like... the fourth person I ever told. I guess maybe the second, since two of them guessed on their own so that wasn't really... anyway, it's not something I'm exactly posting about on facebook, you know?
[ He grins, hoping that Teddy understands what he's saying: that by telling him, he is trusting him, is inviting him into a pretty tiny, select group of people who he had disclosed this information to. ]
That's kinda funny. I mean, the reason I told Billy about my powers was because his sounded so similar, I thought he could help me. And he did. He's the one who figured out it was fear triggering my visions. That was a huge deal...