Gaytheist here

[J.R. Braden]

Well, what's the context? What is your prospective arsonist supposed to be like? Why is he doing it?

Without giving too much away, my main character and his partner discover they have unique abilities almost like super-powers. The main character can convince anyone to do whatever he wants with a mental 'push (which he mostly uses to get people to kill themselves) and his partner can visualize the Butterfly effect with exquisite accuracy (i.e. "If I hit this pipe in this location with this brick at this force, I can blow up a subway car.") Both characters met in a mental institution and are, in essence, sociopaths. It works well in the story, I just don't know if people are ready to read the details of a daycare fire set by an unfeeling monster.

Anyhoo, nice to meet you, Rev.