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Carol runs the block on fear. That’s really clear. She runs it on fear as it’s the only way she can demand control. If you have them under intimidation and fear for their lives, you can get pawns to do anything, that was a lesson she learnt very quickly. She learnt it through intimidating a girl to do her will after she snapped at her, grabbing at her arm and getting in her face. This scared the hell out of the unknown inmate and Carol realised the power the infamy of her crime had to play. Through this, she climbed through ranks to become top dog of C-Block after she was transferred.
Due to fear working, Carol works with it. She works with it and continues going as it’s the only way she knows how to keep her gang, she doesn’t exactly know how to keep a gang with her like Barb does. There’s a select few who she doesn’t keep around by intimidation and instead they stay because they want to–some dub it Carol’s inner circle, those who gained her trust through mutual enemies or years of loyalty to the murderer. Problem is, Carol generally does not recognise that–however there are a few exceptions.
Sometimes, Carol wished she didn’t run the place on intimidation. She hears stories of people transferred from D-Block to hers, of people wishing they were back in the kind arms of Barb who took care of her mob. However, the moment she starts to soften, her leadership is put to the test and it’s back to fear. It’s the only way she knows.
How does she strike fear in her older years?
Simple. She’s rather sly about her methods of punishing those who turn against her. The top dogs–Madison, among others, inflict all the damage. Carol does none of the work herself and it’s clear through the actions she takes post-Frieda. She used to handle the situations herself, take them into the secret spot behind the library and choke them on jawbreakers or find a way to harm them in some way just enough so that they will never forget. Usually it’s a spectacle. Madison or whoever carried out the punishment generally broadcast it throughout the cell–publicly humiliating the prisoner in question in the process. Fear rules C-Block and Carol is the queen of it.
Despite this, Carol herself has fear. She was a junior in high school when she killed Debbie. She only truly knows prison life and what prison life has taught her is that when you fuck up, you fuck up for life. Any strife is never forgiven, no betrayal is ever forgotten. And truly, the fear of messing up clings onto the murderer.