Editing Innocence (section)

==Examples==
The [[Feorgbold]]s sent by the [[Briar Girl]] hunted [[Blake]] but did not pursue him when he fled into a gas station full of people.<ref>Was that a rule, here?  No monsters after sunrise, or no monsters when others could see? - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2013/12/17 Excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.2]]</ref>

Attempts to use practice in Kennet were dampened and halted due to the presence of innocents in an effect similar to [[skeptic]]s, if much reduced and diffuse.<ref>Meaning she couldn’t stop it from littering her clothing, or falling onto the car.<br><br>A [[ward]] inside the car glowed faintly, pushing the paper away.  But again, there were bystanders.  The men on the sidewalk.  It couldn’t be too overt.  It couldn’t defy reality or expectations.<br><br>In a way, it was like the skeptic effect that had followed Sharon around, when the Aware had come.<br>[...]<br>The Hennigar ignored the cops, following after Lucy, but the same environment-claiming effect he’d been using didn’t work on an area as wide-open as the road.  Lucy avoided going into the hedges, and when he walked forward a few feet, she crossed maybe ten or twelve feet on all fours, before looking back.<br>[...]<br>The same All-Innocents-are-a-bit-skeptic level of stuff applied.  Even mid-rage, the Hennigar seemed to know enough to hold back, or the practice forced him to, getting weaker. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/02/26 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.y]]</ref>

[[Fell]] hoped that Conquest would leave his niece out of their conflict because she was an innocent and therefore protected, but wasn't sure.<ref name=":0" />

[[Midge|Midge's]] rampage in the [[Spirit World]] was interpreted through innocence.<ref>As a group, Fell, Rose, Maggie and I stopped by a store display.  Televisions played, showing surveillance camera footage and cell phone video.  A crazy obese woman in the middle of a city street, flinging glass at fleeing shoppers.  The news caption on the bottom read ‘Drug-fueled rampage?’<br><br>The pattern was the same, the path she took, amid cars that had stopped in the middle of the street.<br><br>Until she was gunned down.  In the same spot where Rose had banished Midge.<br><br>We watched as the screen changed over.  Changing topics.  Arson, fires throughout the city.  Car accidents.  Property damage.  Deaths. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/05/15 Excerpt] from [[Subordination 6.8]]</ref>

[[Isadora]] brought [[Paige]] to a meeting to force people to watch their words around her and refrain from violence.<ref name=":1" />

[[Blake]] noted that the innocent Thorburns would provide complications for their enemies while they were in the Thorburn House.<ref>Stay out of the way of the innocents on the ground floor, and the one we’ve got in the bedroom across from you.  They’re… complications for the enemy. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/10/07 Excerpt] from [[Histories (Arc 11)]]</ref><ref>“Well,” I said.  “As last-minute defenses go, filling the house with innocents, if that even works for these guys, it’ll slow down a lot of the stuff they could throw at us.”  - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/20 Excerpt] from [[Malfeasance 11.6]]</ref>

The presence of sleeping innocents anchored [[Jacob's Bell]] in reality while it was trying to slide into the [[Abyss]]. However, they would "suddenly decide" to evacuate as soon as they woke up.<ref>Jacob’s Bell is on the way ''down''.  The only thing keeping it ''here'' are the innocents, snug in their beds.  No innocents in this house, so nothing to keep it ''up''.  Now, if I don’t keep the locals from suddenly deciding to evacuate this town, which they will, shortly after waking up, Jacob’s Bell is going to become a new attraction in the Abyss, complete with a spiteful lesser god and a perpetually tolling bell. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/12/02 Excerpt] from [[Sine Die 14.1]]</ref>

[[Witch Hunter]]s<ref>*One Nightmare-type monster was invading dreams.  Targeting normals.  Not affiliated with Johannes or Sandra.  Found wandering the streets in a human guise, spotted through the trickery with innocence, cut down with katana. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/04 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10]]</ref> and [[Blackguard]]s receive training on how to use Innocence to their advantage. Unlike supernatural beings, they could kill innocents without consequence,<ref>“If they don’t kill the others,” Ty said.  “Because Witch Hunters can kill people.  Even innocents.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/23 Excerpt] from [[Malfeasance 11.7]]</ref> ignore supernatural edicts such as the enforced neutrality around [[Jacob's Bell]] council meetings, and enter warded [[Demesne|Demesnes]] without issue.<ref>We turned down that street, and were soon joined by Andy and Eva.  <br>The witch hunters.<br><br>“I assume they aren’t bound by any neutrality rules,” I said.<br><br>“No,” Laird said.  “But if they wanted to kill you, they could enter your home and murder you in their sleep.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Damages 2.1]]</ref> They had some resistance to "trickery" that altered memory or perception.<ref>When I asked Eva, Eva reminded me of the techniques we learned.  Right off the bat, she found the discrepancy.<br><br>When we ask, “How did Rose manage?”, we struggle to answer.<br><br>When we ask, “How did the second Thorburn heir manage?” we can mutually agree that the heir was almost eerily in step with this world.<br><br>As witch hunters, free of any vows or ties to the world the monsters and practitioners inhabit, we’re protected against the trickery.  A measure of innocence can challenge that reality, and clearly see the emperor without his clothes. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/04 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10]]</ref><ref>One Nightmare-type monster was invading dreams.  Targeting normals.  Not affiliated with Johannes or Sandra.  Found wandering the streets in a human guise, spotted through the trickery with innocence, cut down with katana. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/04 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10]]</ref> Some [[Blackguard]]s would deliberately avoid watching supernatural things to keep their eyes innocent.<ref name=":2" />