「STUDIES FOR MENTAL FRAGILITY (3)」
#13/14 - Ami and Yumi - humans, 24, physiological degree 1/5, psychological degree 2/6 (psi degree 4, sigma degree 6, global score: 24)
Putting these two in the same paragraph. I knew they had some sort of twin telepathy. Like, I heard these stories already of twins when if something happens to one the other one will feel the same thing. That's something that can be really creepy, but at the same time, I can understand why this is going on. No. The thing worrying me about these two is what the corruption did to them. I first didn't notice it and it was Itako who gave me a clue of how their spirits got twisted. They seem to... Have some sort of obsession/possession issues for each other. Looks like their fraternal love got twisted into this and I have no idea why. Would this take initial feelings and just... Set them to a sort of extreme? It can seem normal for twins to feel fusional, but there, it goes up to a point of being almost grotesque.
#15 - Minus - goddess, 2▓, physiological degree 3/5, psychological degree high (psi degree 7, sigma degree 9, global score: 63)
So Minus has, unlike Xingchen or her sisters, a sort of genetic predisposition. And I find it weird the corruption didn't get declared natively. She got it just because Xingchen gave it to her. Also... The way Xingchen described her to me... Seems there are lots of differences between the truth and what she told me. I don't think Minus is really evil by herself like Xingchen wants me to believe. She is a sort of... Counterbalance. However, what I don't understand... It's the incident with the hallucination. She believed there was a sort of evil spirit. And she just apparently snapped in front of the others. I wanted to look at her mental alteration more, and what I found is especially some kind of antisocial behavior going on.
#16 - SEKAI - humanoid, 1▓ or 2▓ (I don't know really there), physiological degree 3/5, psychological degree 5/6 (psi degree 5, sigma degree 7, global score: 35)
I got some luck with her, but she is not altered as the two others. Something really surprising me is how the corruption twisted her mind. I actually expected her to become overly psychotic... But not at all. She even seems to be a bit more stable, or at least, she wants to make us believe she is more stable. Outside, she made many people think that her mind was not too much altered. She even manipulated some other people. Apparently, when she was having the phone calls with POPY and ROSE, she just pretended there was nothing really wrong. Even physiologically, she doesn't have too much issues. OK, no, she is not totally sane either, and when I looked more in depth, there is still lots of damage done. But she copes a bit better with these. Now, my big fear about her? Manipulate others to infect them. It already happened with #kzn, but only because there were circumstances that led her to start having anomalies in behavior. There are still chances she does damage by her own. Also must keep an eye over a possible possessiveness issue. Looks like another feeling that got distorted by the corruption.
#17 - RIME - humanoid, 20, physiological degree 5/5, psychological degree 5/6 (psi degree 4, sigma degree 9, global score: 36)
Also surprised with her case because I expected her to become psychotic. And nope. Psychopath as well. But when SEKAI turned the manipulative way, RIME seems to have really serious issues of violence. And I don't know where that comes from. I can understand that seeing your own destroyed future is really not funny, but how it made her impulsive like that? Did she do something in the past that made the corruption turn her like this? Would seem weird for someone who has been awakened only less than two years ago. Big danger with her now? First, she is like KAFU or SEKAI, she is mentally virgin in the first place. No social experience whatsoever. So that made her very easy to corrupt. Then, physiological crisis. I think she has been very harshly affected. I just remember what happened with her when she got infected and it was just horrible to look. Should I keep an eye on her? Clearly yes.
#18 - Totoko - human, 27, physiological degree 3/5, psychological degree high (psi degree 10, sigma degree 5, global score: 50)
I remember when I tried healing Totoko's files and just failed. But seems her huge issue is mainly core data file corruption. How could this affect her mental? The thing is that Totoko just feels abandoned by her core files's maintainer. A part of them are still sane, but another part is quite... Not sure if I can say "dead", but at least, "damaged". This caused Totoko a big fear of just simply dying. And seeing how the files are evolving in the time, I can understand why she is quite afraid. However, what surprises me is... Her reflex to close herself up. Others never did this. OK, maybe except #kzn, but it happened only for a time. Totoko, it seems to be... Since she arrived. I don't think this is some kind of social behavior anomaly, just Totoko seems to be afraid that her corruption causes her to attack other people. Problem, she is now totally broken, totally psychotic. And the only "safe place" she found is her room. The only times she gets out it's for eating, the T.I.S. sessions because she feels she can be useful there, and for going into the studio room for songs. Otherwise, she doesn't interact a lot with other people. What exactly corruption did to her? Probably the excessive psychotic behavior. It just worsened her mental condition. I'd say, as long as Totoko doesn't lose this habit of closing herself up whenever she feels unstable, I shouldn't be too worried... Well, actually, it's HARD to not be worried about her.
#19 - ROSE - humanoid, 1▓ or 2▓ (not sure here?), physiological degree 4/5, psychological degree 4/6 (psi degree 4, sigma degree 8, global score: 32)
I didn't see it by myself, let's say it's more Xin Hua who reported me this. But it seems ROSE has quite serious issues and I'm not sure why. Even POPY is not that much altered compared to her. So I just don't understand. Is it because she knows she accidentally infected her? It's not really her fault. She just got a right idea, it's just... I think no one told her at the time. How would I explain her current behavior... I'd almost put the mental virginity at fault, but if ever I did that, I would also do this for POPY, and she is not that diseased compared to ROSE. Also different profiles between the two. My guess is that corruption is trying to use a sort of personality trait to determine in which profile it will turn into. After, there is still a possibility (just hoping it will NEVER happen), that POPY then breaks mentally even more. And would then join ROSE's scores. Result getting the same right now, but ROSE has some violence accesses per moments.
#3 (continuation)
Now the new issue there is with KAFU, and I think I'm totally at fault for this... It's the fact she started to have an obsessive love disorder towards RIME. The kind of behavior she has reminds me so much what had happened to me when I started having it back in 2010. And I really don't think she can sustain 3 years of just the thing calming down like this happened to me. Not counting the mental damages I got from this. Especially since she doesn't have any mental defenses like the ones I had. Infections side, we are already at two accidents and one mental snap? So yeah, what I was afraid of, it already happened, and when I think about it, I'm afraid it starts back again.
#000 (continuation)
Adding to the fact complete death followed by partial rebirth allows the syndrome to even more manipulate its victim... (Already seen with Meiji or Stella)
See if initial emotions of infected people towards others has a serious influence about the way they get corrupted and the chances some symptoms can predominate on others. Luckily in some cases it gets still pretty restricted, but in other cases, it can really go too far.
Contamination by other people's mental thoughts possible? And it distorts to the most extreme point?
Mental virginity really starts being a problem. The thing is I wonder how Chis-A better copes with psychological symptoms (for physiological ones it's clearly not the case). POPY seems to be not that bad for now. Just getting some luck or it will badly evolve? Very afraid for if COKO and HARU get infected how they will react. (Because I feel like this will still happen someday...)
See if there is something in particular that triggers mental resonance events. Is it stress-induced? The two times it happened it was one who fainted and a remark that got someone really stressed out.
All that is jealousy issues tends to deteriorate under syndrome's influence. Just see how it happened with Zunko, who is usually a very very nice girl, and with Itako. Itako it went really insane. (Note: see if SEKAI is starting to have this issue as well?)
Genetic predispositions seem to be independent from physiological symptoms. Otherwise I'd have Minus or MAYU having very serious issues with the fluid. Instead I got degrees 5 to 6 having this. (Minus very unstable that said)
Multifactorial causes???
Typically, more you mentally break someone, more you have chances to make them lose any control over "black TB". More you have predispositions or specific background, more you have chances to get your behavior completely altered.
Never give in to your emotions, it just makes it worse.
Comorbidities: genetic background, initial rivalry/jealousy, mental virginity, thanathophobia, previous traumatic stress, brain death before partial rebirth, mental wear, initial sociopathy/agressive behavior
Possible distortions: fraternal love -> OLD (both obsessive and possessive variants?) / Antisocial -> profiles 3 or 4 (possibly more 3?) / Stoic and cold personalities -> profile 4 / Low symptoms -> always goes to profile 1 apparently / Appends and extensions seem to cause DID, part of profile 2, but can be 3 or 4 if other predispositions / Pre-infection trauma -> profile 1 or 2 depending of other predispositions / Previous manipulative personality -> profile 4 (worsened) / If there are symptoms caused by syndrome that the person already has even before infection, it's worsened (confusion for example)