Psychonauts fan art5/15/2023 ![]() I keep rewording my commentary on this idea, so here’s the jumble: He feels like himself, now more than ever. The other cadets come and watch him practice just to see what wild shit he’s up to that day. He quickly renews his skills and finds new ways to wrap his powers around them. Fun and challenging, a test of dexterity and flow. It’s no longer a grueling requirement to please his family. He shakes the dust off of his acrobatics. As it turns out, Raz thrives in that kind of chaos and is able to compartmentalize his focus enough to practically create new powers unto themselves, if for a very short time. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and lose control. “Power juggling” is a difficult art for most psychics. By the end of the year, he has achieved adequate command of a wide, wide range of disciplines and has begun experimenting with using them in tandem. If strength were all that mattered, none of them would be worthy of the abilities they wield.Īfter some rest, Raz goes looking for new psychic sensitivities–not in a desperate attempt to find the thing that will bring him up to par, but with all the curiosity of an adventurer in search of new discoveries. His sense of duty, determination, willingness to learn from his mistakes, inventiveness, and compassion are what maximize the effectiveness of his psychic abilites–not to mention his unique skills as an acrobatic. They answer easily and say that he’s already proven his worth as a Psychonaut beyond any kind of rank or measure of raw power. It reaches a point where a couple of his teachers stop in their busy schedules and call him to sit down with them. His peers and mentors notice, though he insists that he’s fine. His performance falls below even his mediocre rank in practice, in study, in everything. What will they do if he can’t live up to the position he’s been awarded?Īn old anxiety stirs. What if this is part of that? What if he can’t change it? His heart sinks. He has often looked back on himself and thought that autism or ADHD or both could explain whatever being an enthusiastic little psychic nerd couldn’t. He lies awake at night, frantically weighing in anything that could be related to why. Hydrokinesis should be what he’s good at, but he’s barely better with it than anything else. What if that was the trick? He picks up a new discipline right away, then can’t advance it past a certain point. They were impressed that he picked up his first set of powers so quickly and used them to save the day nearly by himself–twice. His mentors–his heroes, all well into the 1000s themselves–gave him a chance to be a Psychonaut because they saw so much of that potential in him. A person can always improve, always extend themself to reach closer to their full potential. He’s way behind the other cadets his age, all approaching the 300s in their psychic specialities. But he’s only 15, and it hasn’t changed in months. Now that he’s one of them, he sees diminishing returns for his efforts. He’s been training since the day he learned what a Psychonaut is. ![]() He trains so hard to rank up his prowess as a psychic. I know this isn’t quite how ranks work in Psychonauts canon, just go with it. ![]()
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