_magichands (_magichands) wrote in newalliance, @ 2017-06-24 13:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | doctor strange, james rogers |
Who: Dr Strange, James, L.L.
When: 6/22 (backdate)
Where Bucky's safehouse, NYC
What: James is brainwashed, and science and magic come together to try and free him with the power of truth and friendship. And an amulet of power upside the head.
For all his confidence in his email to L.L., Stephen found himself running his thumb across the closed Eye of Agamotto, the gold chain tangled around his fingers.
It had worked for him, when Loki had used it to snap him back to sense and sanity, when he had been so consumed with the need for power and control that he had done several things he had sworn never to do. But then, he had been under only the influence of his own personality, dampened and dyed a little by the trip into the Lazarus Pit: magic had veiled his mind, and so magic had been able to strip it away, and he had been able to recognize his own actions.
This was traditional brainwashing. Oh, the techniques to do so were undoubtedly well-researched and practiced, unique to the organization, but it was still physical manipulation and external stimuli to overwrite a personality. Most of his medical knowledge - and the journals he'd perused in preparation for this - had centered on the physical structure of the brain and nervous system as a whole, not the psychological methods that twisted what was beneath and within the physical, the mind.
As he'd said, magic and the mind could make a poor mix; James was not influenced by a magic spell that he was lifting, but was free to question what he would see and reject it for not fitting the view his mind insisted was true, because he had been forced to accept it as true.
But he would be neither surgeon nor Sorcerer Supreme if he didn't try.
He walked into the room as if into surgery, already magically cleansed and protected from the high collar of the Cloak of Levitation to the soles of his boots. He reached for power with a flex of his fingers, and as he curved a circle closer to James, started building the wards around the room, to cleanse and protect it as well, like sterilizing medical equipment. "Hello," he said, partially to keep James from focusing on what he was doing, and partially because of what he was about to do. "My name is Dr Strange. I'm here to help."