Saxony: As soon as my house is clean, I will get around to reading your story. I swear this as much to myself as to you (by the time I'm done with this bloody house I'm going to need some detox!)
My own favourite example of beauty/ugliness depending on the viewer is actually from a (pull out your stones and pitchforks everyone!) Harry Potter fanfic called Trouble In Paradise and Paradise Lost. You switch points of view and while the basic description of the character is still the same, the adjectives and subjectiveness change.
That little bit about the garage band people amuses me. Obviously, I do believe in magic--or, more accurately, magick, but I shan't get into the distinctions at the moment.
Within my story, the magick of faith can be either a help or a hinderance, even to the character's own side. If, for example, you have an elven mage trying to do a shielding spell and you have the athiestic Secondary Female sitting there not believing in any kind of magic at all, her faith in the non-existance of magic or magick can become so intense that the power and effects of it can seriously mess up the mage's spell.
This, at one point, leads the athiest to being turned spontaneously into a frog so the elven mage can concentrate, but that's not important. ^^
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