[quote=@Lugubrious] Okie doke. I meant 'shrug off' as in be immune to a curse's effects, not just be annoyed by it. Nero doesn't really want to get under Prince's skin, I don't think, more like he just wants what he sees as karmic justice. In this case it's fine since he wasn't focused and only muttered the spell. When Nero's serious, however, he's not firing blanks. I trust that if Prince and Nero eventually get in a fight, Prince won't be able to simply whip out a purple rose and nullify all of Nero's magic. A major concern of mine for Nero is that because his magic specifically affects people, not just hurting but in disabling, nobody will ever let his magic work, so he becomes totally useless. And yes, I understand that I dug this hole for myself by making a character with awful combat magic but excellent cursing magic. [/quote] It's mostly Prince's curse that makes most curse and mental healing spells ineffective, not necessarily his own magic. It's really powerful and cancels most body effective spells as a defense to make sure nothing interferes with it. He can't actually use his healing magic on himself really. And barely any of his support abilities on himself. So he mostly relies on what he can physically do and use magic on others. It requires a lot of magic, but curses and his support spell can effect him. They just would take a lot out of someone.