oddpuppets (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} oddpuppets) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} scans_daily, |
I must say, your comment tickled me pink. I fear that this will degenerate into a massive fanwanking (on my part) so I'll sum it up this way: When I scan the comments here, there are a very few posters that I always pay attention to. You're definitely one of them.
Oh, for Diana, I imagine magic being so integral to her life that it's almost unconscious. I always imagine that homo magi, and perhaps spell-users as well, can *see* magic, just as naturally as they see everything else. If they were to be stripped of this magic sense, they'd feel as if one of their senses had been taken away, much as we would if we were to be blinded, or deafened, or had our sense of smell removed.
But do the Amazonians count as homo magi? And are they natural magic-users? I never got that impression from them. I could see them seeking to understand it, cataloguing the abilities and faults and missteps of arcana, but as a populace I thought that they were not terribly magic-oriented. Divinely-oriented, yes, but I think magic is a bit of a different creature. Magic, at least according to Vertigo and the better DCU stuff, is about dealing with various powers and deities, beings and dominions, and affected by various elemental factors. The Divine tends to trump this, as in this case, the Amazons are already sworn to the Grecian pantheon. However, it means that there's no dabbling into the arcane, or so I feel.