Editing List of Aware (section)

=== Skeptic ===
<blockquote>''Main article: [[Skeptic]]''</blockquote>
Someone whose [[Innocence]] is stronger than normal. For whatever reason (including brainwashed or simply fell into that pattern), they are deeply compelled to rationalize anything magical they encounter.<ref>''The Innocent enjoy protections from Others and practitioners, but Skeptics often turn these protections to weapons.  There are many ways a Skeptic can come about, but these ways can include indoctrination or acclimatization.  The indoctrinated skeptic may be brainwashed or otherwise augmented with doubt as a fundamental facet of who they are.  Some are raised with daily lessons or a worldview and given no room for any other way of thinking, others are given drugs and reshaped, and yet others are starved, torn down to nothing, then rebuilt from the ground up.''<br><br>''The acclimatized take a gentler road.  When Innocents find themselves faced with the practice or with Others, they will instinctively reach for ways to soften the blow.  If there is room for doubt, they often capitalize on that room, then build on that capital.  Excuses are clung to, they question their own memories or accounting of events, and may liberally revise these memories and accountings, until they return to comfortable reality.  With enough repetition, they can form a comfortable bubble around themselves, where anything extraordinary is dismissed.'' -[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/17  4.8 Bonus Material: Dossiers]</ref> The normal effects of Innocence on the magical are strengthened; it suffers karmic pushback or even, with the stronger skeptics, unravels entirely.<ref>''Skeptics are ignorant and ignorance is dangerous.  Practice struggles to find traction on a Skeptic, and Others suffer a heavy cost to their karma and Selves simply for stepping into the light when the Skeptic is present, even though the Skeptic is often so insulated that the appearance of a god in its full bearing could be dismissed one way or another.  Conversely, when the bubble is popped (again, if it can be), the cost is usually dramatically heavier than usual.  The biggest Skeptics are often dangerous due to their propensity to dampen practice in an area around them and their simultaneous draw to practice; they have a habit of unwinding or bypassing protective wards that are keeping troubling Others locked up, or walking blithely through barriers meant to keep civilians out of a sensitive or dangerous area, often bulldozing the way for other Innocents to pass through.'' -[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/17  4.8 Bonus Material: Dossiers]</ref>