The only real difference between being "damaged" and being "mad" is the willingness to take it out on everyone else.

And there lies the reason why Lara Night believe the Hood is still worth talking to. She believes he's not *quite* completely mad yet, because he's way too functional. That he might never be a force for good...or evil, for that matter...but she can convince him to be less selfish.





That's true, unless they're at the airport claiming they work for the TSA until they get arrested.

(that actually happened, by the way)





The problem is his motivation and will were not taken into account. You can only break someone if they feel they have nothing left to cling to.





Not so much that she believes she can see things, but the fact that she allows it to guide her actions, and the actions of others. Like you mentioned, though, she hasn't been caught yet because she sounds perfectly logical and interactive.

Of course when the Parodyverse was falling apart and she was being pegged by more visions than she could handle, and she was using a box of mints to bring herself back to Earth, that might have been different.





The irony to that is while she doesn't sound it, Faite has extreme clarity that most people wish they had. She's not very good at expressing it, though, because it's such an abstract that it's difficult to describe. What you often get from her instead is out of order stream-of-consciousness that doesn't sound like it makes sense until you figure out the context.








That's okay, I speak typonese fluently.





That's where Chiaki's visions might be far more accurate than the Hooded Hood. Once she learned how to use it, she could tell by the vision's clarity and emotional impact how likely it is to occur. If it's too distant and dreamy, it's either almost meaningless, or too distant into the future. If she has multiple visions that are all very clear, any one of those could happen. A vision that nearly knocks her off her feet with its emotional impact is dangerous and imminent.

The Hooded Hood might like to hear her opinions on his next big plot, but unfortunately Chiaki is extremely uncooperative with people who try to use her visions. She would give him ones that are not false - so he wouldn't be able to catch her lying - but are otherwise completely useless.





Speaking of madness, you have to wonder if the Hooded Hood is involving Liu Xi in these things to drive her toward madness by giving her things she cares about and then taking them away repeatedly.