Was thinking about the recent asks on my blog about dust sans and his psychosis, how fandom doesn’t often potray nuance in dust’s psychosis and how that nuance is often unexplored in the bad Sanses gang by not exploring how horror and killer can experience psychosis themselves.
and I had a thought that another way things like psychosis or mental health in general is unexplored is that they also aren’t really depicted or explored outside the bad sanses gang, especially “scary” mental health disorders or symptoms like psychosis—either as apart of schizophrenia, or as a result of trauma, or as apart of another disorder, or even as a result of high stress or having taken certain drugs or medications.
like, just for example, both horror and color sans have fractured open skulls, missing eye, color has an entire slashed open chest wound. it even seems his bones are so fragile that there’s big enough holes or cracks in one of his arms where flames are able to escape, just like the ones from his skull.
I sometimes see people talking about the side effects of having a cracked open skull, missing eye that had to be replaced with another’s eye, sometimes even fragile bones due to malnourishment/starvation or lack of strong magic or what have you with horror.
but it’s rarely talked about or depicted with color, even though this is likely something that the two have enough in common about to talk about or bond over.
even the starvation part could be something in common, given there was no food or anything like it in the Void, where color was trapped for at least 20 years. perhaps they even had opposite responses to suddenly having access to food again, and perhaps they both developed equally unhealthy but opposite relationships with food.
on top of that, experiencing psychosis symptoms due to traumatic skull injury, stress and trauma, and profound social isolation and under stimulation can be a reasonable thing to assume color has experienced himself.
