"A potion that allows you to take on the appearance of another?" Luke asks, fascinated by the very idea. "Shadowhunters could use runes that rendered us all but invisible to mundanes... to... you know, I always hated that term. Mundanes. That's what they called the regular folks who didn't know about the demon world, who didn't know about Shadowhunters. The implication is a bit insulting, isn't it? As I understand the history of it, it's meant to imply simple the terrestrial world, the material... the thing we're trying to protect, but most Shadowhunters used it as an insult. Mundane. Clueless, boring, sheep."
Luke wonders what his life would have been like had he not been bitten. Had he remained a Shadowhunter. Would he have still seen the Clave for what it was? Would he have taken issue with their decisions and their policies? Would he have truly followed Valentine had his methods not been so insane?
He shakes his head a moment later and offers a smile. "It would be wonderful to have at least one regular customer," he says. "I'm planning on carrying most anything, but in Manhattan I specialized in hard to find magical texts, so I'm hoping I might be able to do something similar here. To be honest, I'm just looking forward to being surrounded by books again."
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Date: 2014-11-07 02:53 pm (UTC)Luke wonders what his life would have been like had he not been bitten. Had he remained a Shadowhunter. Would he have still seen the Clave for what it was? Would he have taken issue with their decisions and their policies? Would he have truly followed Valentine had his methods not been so insane?
He shakes his head a moment later and offers a smile. "It would be wonderful to have at least one regular customer," he says. "I'm planning on carrying most anything, but in Manhattan I specialized in hard to find magical texts, so I'm hoping I might be able to do something similar here. To be honest, I'm just looking forward to being surrounded by books again."