Oh, I don't dispute that. But then, the experience of being a witch is different for each individual. Consider: They all have powerful superhuman abilities that require responsibility, and they've all, by definition in their world, had them since childhood, but they aren't all the same, and that colors how they have to approach being witches right from day 1.

Yoshika, for instance, is a healer. Now, I'm not saying that's an automatic pass to being as good a person as she is, but it's harder to abuse a power like that unless you're some kind of complete warpo who spends the time and effort necessary to figure out, I dunno, how to use it to give people cancer or something fucked up like that. That's like "that asshole in Legend of Korra season 1" territory.

Trude's power, on the other hand? Prodigious, metal-bending (in the literal sense) physical strength. She's already had to learn to keep that under pretty careful control. When you can, if suitably motivated, pick up a 30-foot-long steel H-beam, schoolyard brawling becomes incipient manslaughter. ("The last time I was in New York, I sort of broke... Harlem.")

All of which is by way of saying that in terms of maintaining self-control, this ain't Gertrud Barkhorn's first rodeo. It'll take some adjusting, sure, but it's not like she's just made the sudden transition from Ordinary Mortal to Person With Astonishing Powers.

--G.
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