The Micro-Scenes Thread

I like that conversation! But it makes you think a student like that would sooner be put in ARC than Whatley. Even if it is a case of 'you live in ARC but you can have supervised visits to Whatley and can do remote classes and be part of activities"

Also, side question, what is the difference in sapient and sentient? Sentient is aware of your own existence and sapience is intelligent, right?

Benoftheflies wrote:

I like that conversation! But it makes you think a student like that would sooner be put in ARC than Whatley. Even if it is a case of 'you live in ARC but you can have supervised visits to Whatley and can do remote classes and be part of activities"

Also, side question, what is the difference in sapient and sentient? Sentient is aware of your own existence and sapience is intelligent, right?

Yes, sentience means (conscious) awareness of the environment as separate from oneself. Sapience refers to having at least some reasoning and planning abilities. This is measured on a scale and at least most mammals have at least a small degree of sapience in that they can make plans for something that happens in the future.

A feral child would not be kept in an institution like ARC, which is first of all a research facility and geared towards containing (potentially) dangerous supernatural patients.
Being feral means that the child grew up with little to no human contact. They need a stable family environment to (re)socialise them, and that is not something that ARC would be able to provide. Granted, Whateley is hardly better suited for this. Perhaps one of the more powerful psi-arts teachers would adopt the child, being a full time presence in their life for the first year at the very least, and then -slowly- introduce them to other children. Setting them loose in the insanity that is Whateley is a disaster waiting to happen of course. How far this particular child can be resocialised is far outside the scope of a micro scene of course.

Thanks for the response! I was thinking like CyberKitty. Because of her extreme mental issues (mostly onset by mutation and the surrounding issues, but not soley), she was locked up in an ARC institutional ward. It was protective for both Merry and those around her, but it doesn't mean it was the best environment.

I think if a kid mutates and becomes feral (like degrades in overall reasoning), ARC would be a good temporary place while they get things figured out. Unless that kid was a section 33 case, any bully who picks a fight may open a can of worms that can't be closed