As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
- Seeing how people die whenever you touch them skin-to-skin: not all deaths are peaceful, pretty, or otherwise palatable for human viewing.
- Aaron has his power activate completely unexpectedly, getting many overwhelming death visions when he’s not even touching anyone. It makes him collapse. In the middle of a war. Thankfully, he doesn’t get captured or killed, but unexpectedly getting awful visions that make you vulnerable in the middle of a war, possibly leaving you open to enemies if your side doesn’t notice what happened or doesn’t act on it…
- Aaron’s Civil War dream is graphic. It’s full of the many violent events surrounding the war, and includes bodies being left to rot in fields. His Nightmare Sequence also includes chained slaves standing and watching silently, which just adds to the creepiness of the whole thing. At first, he thinks it’s a dream, and only later does he realize it’s actually a vision, but both times he thinks the issue of slavery will tear the country apart. A divided country at war usually makes for a deprived and violent environment, not great for your own wellbeing let alone that of a spouse and children.
- Not being able to communicate with your loved ones about how they die, them refusing to listen, or them listening to you and dying because of what you told them to do. Aaron knows how and when his father dies, and tries and fails to communicate this to him because he’s one year old. It’s implied the same thing happens with his mother. When he learns to talk, he can communicate with his grandparents about their impending deaths but they don’t believe him and his grandmother dies. This gets him verified as a Seer. Now his grandfather listens to him about how he’ll die by smallpox. He tries to prevent it with a vaccine but something goes wrong with the vaccine and he dies of smallpox anyways. Really inspires feelings of helplessness in the face of death and an inability to overcome nasty events even with foresight. Overlaps with Tear Jerker.
- Aaron locks gaze with Thomas Jefferson as he drinks poison and commits suicide. He's intentionally trying to give Jefferson nightmares, and Word of God says
he succeeded: though he doesn't personally experience the nasty physical effects of what happens when you drink strychnine, everyone else in the courtroom still sees him convulsing and foaming at the mouth.- He did this because whether he was found guilty or not guilty, Americans would lose trust in their very new form of government, likely causing some form of intense political unrest. The only way to avoid being found either was making sure the trial couldn’t conclude by killing himself.
