[Gratz on the new car! That's very fun. (I shan't tell you what I drive--it's sort of laughable. Suffice to say that it's a hand-me-down from my partner's nan who couldn't drive anymore.) Hopefully your layovers won't be too much of a pain but Toronto isn't a bad airport to fly through at least. Narita is big and bright and lovely. Sparkling clean and not crowded at all when we were there. Our cell phones wouldn't work in Japan (most international ones don't as I understand it) so we had to rent a mobile phone which we collected at a little kiosk just upstairs in the airport, really well organized. We'd reserved it in advance so we just picked it up. It wasn't cheap but it was worth it. Then the train into central Tokyo was just back through another door--very easy, though we did have to change trains at least once. The Tokyo metro map looks really confusing at first glance, but basically, the Yamanote line runs in a circle around the city, so once you get on that you can get to just about any destination. Not sure if you've got all your hotels planned already, but we stayed at two places in Tokyo this one at the start of our trip and this one at the end. I loved the first one in particular. It's quite close to the station and on the doorstep of Ueno park (we could hear a community tai chi instructor outside each morning). There's also a really great street market area just around the corner with all sorts of yummy street food and a local Mister Donut where we went so often that they started giving us free stuff lol. Second hotel was fine (bit more modern in its furnishings) but it was a longer walk to the train. Small bathrooms in both, but that's par for the course in Japan. (Also, re: bathrooms--public toilets don't generally have hand driers/paper towels. People carry pocket hankies for hand drying + also packets of tissues bc there's often no loo roll.) /tl;dr forever Also, fingers crossed that you'll get to see your Dr soon. I'll be thinking of you. <3]
"It might be Ventari who struck a chord more than I did," Aurus gave a playfully self-deprecating smile. He did like the idea that he'd managed a unique rapport with the girl though.
"But temper tantrums--here we reach one of the limits of my experience--they are a behavior that all children display at some point, yes? And I gather that they are uniformly unpleasant for anyone unlucky enough to be in the vicinity, whether powers are involved or not. I've seen them, but I've honestly never been able to understand their cause.
"Seems rather more difficult than the question of how to put anger to good use. And I do think it can be used. It is as valid and valuable a motivation as defense or safety, and, I would venture, more valuable a motivation than fear." There was a purposeful, if subtle, suggestion here: that anger could be a positive force. Aurus wanted to know what Charles would make of that idea, since it seemed like it might be relatively outside his current thinking. He did, however, sigh with an admission: "Though I suppose all of this illustrates a unique difficulty with children in particular. Fear of the young is hardly rational, but it's often based on an awareness that the young themselves are not necessarily rational.
"Some humans seem to dream that children are idyllic and innocent, but the reality seems always to be a fear of something within children that is not idyllic and innocent at all. I presume this is not only an issue for mutants since I've seen it in my world too, but yes, I suppose that put that way I can imagine how quickly mutant children might be feared as a source of unrestrained and untempered power."
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"It might be Ventari who struck a chord more than I did," Aurus gave a playfully self-deprecating smile. He did like the idea that he'd managed a unique rapport with the girl though.
"But temper tantrums--here we reach one of the limits of my experience--they are a behavior that all children display at some point, yes? And I gather that they are uniformly unpleasant for anyone unlucky enough to be in the vicinity, whether powers are involved or not. I've seen them, but I've honestly never been able to understand their cause.
"Seems rather more difficult than the question of how to put anger to good use. And I do think it can be used. It is as valid and valuable a motivation as defense or safety, and, I would venture, more valuable a motivation than fear." There was a purposeful, if subtle, suggestion here: that anger could be a positive force. Aurus wanted to know what Charles would make of that idea, since it seemed like it might be relatively outside his current thinking. He did, however, sigh with an admission: "Though I suppose all of this illustrates a unique difficulty with children in particular. Fear of the young is hardly rational, but it's often based on an awareness that the young themselves are not necessarily rational.
"Some humans seem to dream that children are idyllic and innocent, but the reality seems always to be a fear of something within children that is not idyllic and innocent at all. I presume this is not only an issue for mutants since I've seen it in my world too, but yes, I suppose that put that way I can imagine how quickly mutant children might be feared as a source of unrestrained and untempered power."