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Reply Subj: That's more squish than fluff. Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 at 01:14:17 pm EST (Viewed 460 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: The madness is required to access the power and to make it work effectively. The Hood is just a high-functioning madman.Quote: Think about what madness consists of, though: Usually someone who's considered insane either sees something that most people believe isn't there, attaches attributes to something that has no visible correlation to most people, or refuses to conform to morality standards.Those have been some definitions, but mental illness is a bit more defined these days and covers a lot of different issues, just like "belly ache" can have many causes. 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. Quote: But what if the thing that person sees actually is there? What if those attributes actually do exist, but no one else sees it? What if the person was taught a different standard of morality?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. Quote: That last point can be addressed first, because the Hood was gradually tortured into believing that whatever is possible is right.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. Quote: And obviously the contingencies he sees, and all of the stories attached to a person, are actually there, it's just that nobody else sees it.There's pribably a differential in how real they are, like the different between stories idly concelived but never written down and those at are in print format on the shelf. Quote: Where I'm going with this is by the usual standards, Chiaki Bushido would be considered insane, because she sees things no one else does, and then acts upon it. She also might be seen as insane because she has her own standards of morality and believes it's okay to help gangsters and murderers.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. Quote: Faite would definitely be considered insane because she constantly sees and hears people talking to her that no one else can see. She can sense things happening that aren't visible, some of which are a great distance away. And she claims to make changes to reality that are so subtle that most people won't even notice.She might be diagnosed somewhere along the autistic spectrum, but a bit shy of actully clincally insane. Quote: So really, madness is relative.Quote: Quote: SHe's havce to be assessed a sa dancer to herself or others before she got the room. Residential psychiatric care is expensive."Wow, my fingers went a bit rogue on that paragraph, didn't they? It should say: "She'd have to be assessed as a danger to herself or others..." Quote: Quote: The Hood really only sees current consequences for past alterations. He may even be doing those alterations to see what happens and then reversing them, on an instinctive level, all the time. Anyway, his multiple-personality origins seem to be required to interface with the abilitiy and the Asylum.Quote: That's kind of funny then, that Chiaki actually has a more accurate predictor of the future. Might be kind of interesting to see what happens if the Hood needs her at some point to know if something will work out the way he wants.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? Quote: Quote: Out of that dimension, she has no Doomherald to return the matter to. This may be a problem later.Quote: It's really just elements, but he kind of needs them more than she does since he can't reform himself.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. | |||||||
