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Subj: That's what we're here for.
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 at 01:39:47 pm EST (Viewed 492 times)
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 at 10:35:35 am EST (Viewed 1 times)




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    None of the actual conditions of "madness" really equate well to the sort of madness beloved of adventure fiction, which is a very dramatic and easily classifiable malady, ofen involving dramatic backstory. Of course, that's the kind of insanity the Hooded Hood has.


The only real difference between being "damaged" and being "mad" is the willingness to take it out on everyone else.

And there lies the reason why Lara Night believe the Hood is still worth talking to. She believes he's not *quite* completely mad yet, because he's way too functional. That he might never be a force for good...or evil, for that matter...but she can convince him to be less selfish.



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    I've talked with schizophrenics who argue that "the voices" would once have placed them in the shamatic tradition and given them a place of honour in society.


That's true, unless they're at the airport claiming they work for the TSA until they get arrested.

(that actually happened, by the way)



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    I'd probably weight the sentence slightly differently, because I don't think the intent was to push him that way; rather that was an unforseen consequence.


The problem is his motivation and will were not taken into account. You can only break someone if they feel they have nothing left to cling to.



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    She would pass any modern sanity test because she follows coherent patterns of logic, can cogently answer with reasons about her actions, and apart from an atypical preception that she insists is real otherwise releates to people and society in a connected manner. If people were locked away today for beliving in things others can't see then every Christian in the world would be in an asylum.


Not so much that she believes she can see things, but the fact that she allows it to guide her actions, and the actions of others. Like you mentioned, though, she hasn't been caught yet because she sounds perfectly logical and interactive.

Of course when the Parodyverse was falling apart and she was being pegged by more visions than she could handle, and she was using a box of mints to bring herself back to Earth, that might have been different.



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    She might be diagnosed somewhere along the autistic spectrum, but a bit shy of actully clincally insane.


The irony to that is while she doesn't sound it, Faite has extreme clarity that most people wish they had. She's not very good at expressing it, though, because it's such an abstract that it's difficult to describe. What you often get from her instead is out of order stream-of-consciousness that doesn't sound like it makes sense until you figure out the context.



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    Wow, my fingers went a bit rogue on that paragraph, didn't they? It should say:



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    "She'd have to be assessed as a danger to herself or others..."


That's okay, I speak typonese fluently.



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    There are additional issues about future prophecy, though. Is the future fixed once it is seen? Or can it still change if events are altered? Are some futures set? Is viewing the future changing it?


That's where Chiaki's visions might be far more accurate than the Hooded Hood. Once she learned how to use it, she could tell by the vision's clarity and emotional impact how likely it is to occur. If it's too distant and dreamy, it's either almost meaningless, or too distant into the future. If she has multiple visions that are all very clear, any one of those could happen. A vision that nearly knocks her off her feet with its emotional impact is dangerous and imminent.

The Hooded Hood might like to hear her opinions on his next big plot, but unfortunately Chiaki is extremely uncooperative with people who try to use her visions. She would give him ones that are not false - so he wouldn't be able to catch her lying - but are otherwise completely useless.



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    He won't exist any more once she has left the Celestian's control plane. Bringing in a "guide" is just one of the plane's minor functions. When Mumphrey was there it was his dead wife Madge.


Speaking of madness, you have to wonder if the Hooded Hood is involving Liu Xi in these things to drive her toward madness by giving her things she cares about and then taking them away repeatedly.






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