#captive audience

[misscaptor]

it's not a person. it sleeps in a cage. it wears a collar with a bell and a shiny tag with my phone number on the back. I gave it its name and I give it its food and water. If it talks it's because I let it. If it stands it's because I commanded it to. If it smiles or talks to you like a person that's because I let it pretend. It likes to pretend, it's a skilled mimic, but don't forget, it's not a person.

I know it looks like a person. If it was a person it would be a very pretty person, too, wouldn't it? And the way it talks, the way it behaves, it seems like it would be a smart, charismatic, capable person. Its hard to remember sometimes that its all fake. It's pretending. It is just a pet.

Morally, what I do to it would be wrong to do to a person, so I'm lucky its not. I have total control over its life. It has scars on its body from when I got too overzealous with my knife. It has tattoos it didn't want. It has piercings it didn't ask for. Its locked into its collar and cuffs, they're not accessories. That would erode the dignity of a person. It seems perfectly happy. It seems perfectly fine, doesn't it?

So when you say I'm keeping a person against 'their' will it's not entirely accurate. It's not a person, and as far as I can tell, it never has been. Its will doesn't really matter, because it's my pet. My will is what matters, and I want to keep it forever and ever.

[kingoftheu]

Zoey realizes Sword!Jinu is literally a captive audience for her to info dump at.

[sainteclectic]

[heart fictionkin with bpd voice] wwhat if bpd whole and hms all got various symptoms from the split.

ohh you've come to the right place <- bpd haver

i could absolutely see bpd whole first of all, considering how strongly he reacts to perceived rejection. he has this deep-seated fear of people secretly hating or leaving him. so he leaves first, isolating himself so no one can have the chance to hurt him. and of course, identity diffusion is already a symptom of bpd.

heart is rather obvious, with his strong emotions, unstable relationships, outbursts of anger, and tendency to develop a strong personal hatred over slights. but I want to highlight apathy, which showcases the other side of bpd: this unending chasm of emptiness. it feels like someone's hollowed you out, and there's nothing left but an endless pit. nothing matters anymore, and you're desperate to feel anything at all. I think that fits well with how apathy is shown to us.

mind is interesting, because obviously he prides himself on not being irrational or emotional. but he's also a fucking liar on that front, so jot that down. instead of showing his emotions openly, he copes with the instability by picking a distinct role to play and stubbornly sticking to it without any room for nuances or exceptions—an example of black and white thinking. he's the rational one. heart is the emotional one. there's no room for an in-between. his thought process is very rigid, and he's incredibly averse to considering any nuances in his view of the world.

aaaand I've already made an entire post about soul's bpd that you can read here, but basically. he's got the identity issues BAD. he doesn't know who he is outside of his relation to whole. he's the mediator between heart and mind, but his relationships are still less than stable, alternating between seeing them as parts or parasites. he makes overt threats of suicide in times of stress, believing there's no other alternative. he has emotional impermanence—the inability to conceptualize emotions when not actively experiencing them. when it's cacophony, everything will stay awful forever. when it's concord, the world is perfect and beautiful.

you could also argue that thematically, the parts of yourself fighting like this could parallel the intense dichotomy of having bpd. you feel like you're at war with yourself, not knowing which side is "you." obviously it's not intended by chonny, but I relate to it heavily in that way :-)

[twifarts]

no text + sketch below also the dialogue is a reference, tell me if you know, you FILTHY gooners..

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[mossthewolfe]

me when i get invested into a cool horror game via Markipiler playthrough: Oh boy i cant wait to intake some fandom content after this, like edits and fanart and theories and-

theres no fandom....

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