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... probably not to a fairly substantial part of the human population, and almost certainly not in the US. Pedophiles are a statistical rarity -- as well as a subject that basically no one is willing to research, which largely means that drugs tailored to it (assuming that's even possible and last I checked, no one has a goddamn clue) will be a bloody long time coming -- but divorce and split families are incredibly common and identified by a lot of people as an incredibly major social ill. You're going to see monogamy encouraging drugs roll out long before you see pedophilia suppressing ones.

I'd probably say about the most I'd be comfortable seeing is counting the bless as one path less if the pretender isn't active. So N9 would be N8, etc. More than that sounds... excessive, and seriously incintivises being cautious with the pretender more than I'd personally be happy seeing. Don't want the game to make them more passive than they can already end up... be nice if they did something to make them less passive, honestly. Maybe let them do magic-y stuff without a lab, possibly at a path malus, so they're more encouraged to wander around. Possibly even act as a mobile lab, to really make things interesting.

Actually, bless-no-work/work-less-when-inactive + mobile-lab-now could make for some bloody interesting choices. Something both to incentivize caution and reward activity.

Think I've said it before, but I'm pretty sure that "After Death" is what I was actually taught in school. It's been quite a few years, obviously enough, but... yeah. It's certainly the answer you'd get from quite a bloody few people in the area I'm in.

Bloody blue crumbling bumblefuck, get that goddamn ukraine out of the US politics thread. Out! Get the hell out!

Though do remember, if you go that route, that second bit specifically has to be phrased, "Sometimes a key is just a key." That's a universal mandate when invoking that line of thought.

Functionally, it seems like about the best time would be mid to late twenties. Time enough for strong general education and some broad water-testing* (so to speak) and for brain development to finish so that likelihood of being grounded enough to rationally and effectively choose a career specialization is much higher.

I'd kinda' question if pre-career specialization is a good idea at all, though, especially if you're in a tumultuous economic region. Broad-base and effective general education and a wide base of previous experience in disparate fields would seem to be the best idea t'me, probably with an emphasis on re-training and learning on the job. Heavy and early specialization seems to just leave quite a few people sitting around with a great deal of training and nothing to use it on, or incredibly miserable when they find out five or ten years into a career they hate what they're doing and don't have the means to change venues...

*This part in particular seriously doesn't get enough support in basically any society, though, at least from what I've seen and heard. Very few people actually have any bloody idea what they're getting in to, and it's damned rare there is, and double-damned difficult to get, a chance to actually get that exposure outside of maybe one or two fields (usually the parents or relatives, who are pretty likely to be in similar fields). And the individual that doesn't like those few fields are often just kinda' buggered insofar as preparation goes.

... what does "What does the key sim loose" mean?

Is, uh. Is that supposed to be symbolize?

Though I'm not familiar enough with gothic media to say, do keys fit into some kind of convention within the genre? Particularly during the period of the piece was made? A lot of times when you've got a fairly close knit writing/media community authors/creators will stick to certain shared conventions to mean things. Kind of like an in-joke, just... more meaningful.

If not, then what OW and ArK said, mostly, but... well, part of critical watching/reading/etc. -- the kind of stuff you do when you're actually looking for and picking apart symbolism -- is looking for stuff like that. Common themes, shared meanings within the genre, etc. Sometimes they're even intentional and add meaning to the work. _{usually they are not, and meaning is tacked onto the work like an epileptic kid hopped up on PCP trying to pin a squirrel's tail to a quadriplegic donkey there is no escape, only blood and the screaming of wounded asses}

*mumbles something about a flaming spider orgy ball*