Egoist

An Egoist could be seen as a variant of the Heartless practice that focuses their practice inwards on pruning the Self to remove ugliness or weakness. If done beyond a certain point it can result in the individual losing their humanity.<ref>“Practitioners can do what you talk about.  The Hyde types of Alchemist accomplish it with chemical treatments, and then there are Egoists who, like Heartless pare away ugliness or pare away weakness to turn much of their practice inward.  Lis and Maricica told Edith and I about the beautiful man and I checked in on one individual I knew who had apparently interacted with him.  I don’t think he’s human anymore. [...] There’s a tell.  I asked the woman, she comes into my store sometimes, she helped build the addition where we have kayaks and canoes, did she think he could have been a model?  She said he was too attractive to be a regular old model.  Those who find power or beauty or whatever else by practice or by their Other abilities often find innocent things put beyond their reach.  Politics, acting, work that would leverage those traits.  A man this beautiful could, I assume, become the husband of royalty and avoid most public events, existing more as rumor than reality, enjoying the luxury, but he could not easily find the public eye even if he sought it.  Sometimes their beauty is captured in the moment but it curdles in retrospect, sometimes it’s something more specific, like being the opposite of photogenic, appearing ugly in photos and videos.  These things hold them back when circumstances alone aren’t enough to.  In much the same way, a Heartless practitioner that achieves immortality may find that any fortunes tied directly to them age in a way they don’t.  Those fortunes will slip away from them if they have to withstand any scrutiny from innocents.  Heartless will tend to put their fortunes into art collections and obscure ventures.” - Excerpt from False Moves 12.3</ref>

Unlike other heartless practices it focuses more on the immaterial and interaction side of things this still leads to an inability to directly effect the innocent world but it is still an effect.<ref>Egoist:  primarily turn the immaterial stuff inward, to become top tier beauties, or whatever, usually on a social plane. - Wildbow on practices.</ref>

Examples

• Steven, Kennet infiltrator<ref>- Excerpt from False Moves 12.3</ref>

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