[@Fat Boy Kyle] - Subject to whether or not the GM agrees with me, the way I've always figured is that, yes, Miraluka can read other species' written word - there would be a [i]profound[/i] separation and alienation otherwise. While that's certainly narratively interesting, I feel like that also builds cultural, functional, and societal walls between them and any other race so high that surmounting them would be outside the scope of something like an RP thread. Making things difficult [i]for the sake of being difficult[/i] rarely tells a good story.

All the same, taking that sort of thing as a granted might be an interesting concept for a piece of short fiction.

[i]However[/i], my basic assumption here is that the act of writing (and, as the Force flows through all things, the act of displaying text) subtly changes the way the Force flows through, around, and within that object. All things are connected, and that connection is changed by every act, large or small. I very much intend that Seris can read books, datapads, consoles, and ship's names, though I suspect she appreciates paintings on a different level. She probably perceives the woven strands of intent, desire, frustration, pain, and ecstasy the work might carry with it, rather than the composition, pigment, brush strokes, and subtle plays of light and shadow. Not so much "better" or "worse," only different.