Question New Mental Disorder

I had an idea that a Reality Warper, a Mage type, or a Manifestor who's mind is a little more then a little broken might have their powers/sub conscious create real enemies for them to deal with. Kind of like Spoof's spoofs only out to get them.

Sounds like what Marvel did with Sentry and The Void.

Ah. Shows how little I read comics wise.

I briefly had an idea for a character like this.
She had schizophrenia, and when she manifested the medicine she was taking stopped working. Fortunately she could control it by manifesting duplicates of herself, the more she manifested the less she suffered from the various symptoms. But each manifestation was more mentally and physically unstable. So the first one would be disfigured a little and want to spread lies and emotionally hurt the original. The third would show moderate GSD, claws, barbs, scales, etc, it varied with each manifestation, and would actively try to harm the original and her friends. The sixth and last manifestation would be monstrous in shape and strength and completely psychotic.

I decided to put that idea aside, as coming up with reasons to manifest more than one or two of them and keeping them locked up in a room until they demanifested, was rather difficult, and since she was suppose to be a side character her problems would overwhelm the story.

My mind is a scary place.
Give me a basic idea and I'll twist it into nightmare fuel.

Okay, gonna ramble on Domo's idea, but Cryptic... What are you gonna call the name of that Syndrome? Mental Externalization Syndrome? Not as catchy as Deidricks, but you could make a example case and name it after them...

@Domoviye - So, CloneDegeneration UpToEleven or something... With the type of degeneration corresponding to clone count... ... Offloading Schizo onto clones... Sorta like Absinthe...



Best option might just be to change degeneration type each time she manifests, and to randomly get the worst type...

Perhaps one of them can absorb schizo from the others and that's how the worst kind forms, from her clones cannibalizing each other, or she just really needs to dump a large load into one for some reason... Perhaps after a nightmare fueled night, or something...

And of course Worm also does a version of this. Not explaining, though, because of the amazingly humongous spoiler that it is. If you've read the series all the way through you know what I'm talking about.

Domoviye wrote: I briefly had an idea for a character like this.
She had schizophrenia, and when she manifested the medicine she was taking stopped working. Fortunately she could control it by manifesting duplicates of herself, the more she manifested the less she suffered from the various symptoms. But each manifestation was more mentally and physically unstable. So the first one would be disfigured a little and want to spread lies and emotionally hurt the original. The third would show moderate GSD, claws, barbs, scales, etc, it varied with each manifestation, and would actively try to harm the original and her friends. The sixth and last manifestation would be monstrous in shape and strength and completely psychotic.

I decided to put that idea aside, as coming up with reasons to manifest more than one or two of them and keeping them locked up in a room until they demanifested, was rather difficult, and since she was suppose to be a side character her problems would overwhelm the story.

This actually reminds me of Legion, a novella by Brandon Sanderson. In Legion, the main character compartmentalizes his knowledge by creating hallucinations which 'know' the information instead of him. And they all have mental disorders as well (one of the hallucinations is schizophrenic, which is particularly funny). But he (and they) are perfectly aware that his hallucinations aren't real.

reminds me of Professor Xavier's Son, David... a.k.a Legion, who was a multiple personality disorder case. he had LOTS of powers, but each one was controlld by a specific personality.

Completely honest answer. Hopefully in a week, depends on my mom's health right now.
But if your interested while I was breaking my head on A Good man, I wrote four potential origin stories, a funny miasma story, and worked out one to two year independent plotlines for each origin story.
And then shit happened at the end of January. Hurray for my life!!!!


And just so people know each character is mentally a basket case. except for one potential character, in that case it's her roommate.

JG wrote:

Kristin Darken wrote: Dom, when are you going to come join the canon team?

Right, getting the tranq darts and capture team then.

I'll go peacefully.
I'll go eagerly if you bring silk ropes, feather dusters and a whip.
I'll come to you if [censored], [censored], [not humanly possible]!

*restrains self from making dirty comment*

Oh, what the heck.


Is that 'to', or 'for'?

Arcanist Lupus wrote: *restrains self from making dirty comment*

Oh, what the heck.


Is that 'to', or 'for'?

Little from column A, a lot from column B.
You might need a bucket... And some mops.

Domoviye wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: *restrains self from making dirty comment*

Oh, what the heck.


Is that 'to', or 'for'?

Little from column A, a lot from column B.
You might need a bucket... And some mops.

There might be some extras in the closet by Puppet's room.

Domoviye wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: *restrains self from making dirty comment*

Oh, what the heck.


Is that 'to', or 'for'?

Little from column A, a lot from column B.
You might need a bucket... And some mops.

Haha that's cute. Bucket and Mops. Give me a few minuets I need to borrow some flame throwers from the sewer brothers.

The sewer brothers do not 'borrow' their flamethrowers.

They are needed.

All the time.

Domoviye wrote: Completely honest answer. Hopefully in a week.

Cryptic wrote: I had an idea that a Reality Warper, a Mage type, or a Manifestor who's mind is a little more then a little broken might have their powers/sub conscious create real enemies for them to deal with. Kind of like Spoof's spoofs only out to get them.

Please note that to an extent this happens to Ash.

But Ash lost to Anna every time, especially the time he made that same Pikachu and it shocked the poo out of Ash instead of going for Anna.

Although that might be an offshoot of AWS.

NJM1564 wrote: Haha that's cute. Bucket and Mops. Give me a few minuets I need to borrow some flame throwers from the sewer brothers.

What can you get for a gavotte and a jig?

Part 3? Yay...

Tara needs to survive...

* turns on the +10 big sad puppy dog eyes*

I felt so sorry for her in A good man.

null0trooper wrote:

NJM1564 wrote: Haha that's cute. Bucket and Mops. Give me a few minuets I need to borrow some flame throwers from the sewer brothers.

What can you get for a gavotte and a jig?

Throw in 50 bucks and you can get a promise not to rub Greesy on the floor beforehand. Or a promise to do it. What ever floats your boat.

Make it 100 and I'll get the outcasts to make him dance naked.

And we already know from No Place Like Poe that Teri is canon and at Whateley. Some adjustments, but yeah, more insanity will be experienced by all.

elrodw wrote: And we already know from No Place Like Poe that Teri is canon and at Whateley. Some adjustments, but yeah, more insanity will be experienced by all.

Oh so much insanity.
The schizophrenic character mentioned earlier was going to be her roommate, then I came up with something even better.
There are supervillains, heroes, crying, laughs, epic fights, road trips, underwear, trips down memory lane, Canada, robots, yetis, ice cream, singing and dancing, babies, airships, mailboxes, and more mental trauma then you can shake a stick at.

Domoviye wrote:

elrodw wrote: And we already know from No Place Like Poe that Teri is canon and at Whateley. Some adjustments, but yeah, more insanity will be experienced by all.

Oh so much insanity.
The schizophrenic character mentioned earlier was going to be her roommate, then I came up with something even better.
There are supervillains, heroes, crying, laughs, epic fights, road trips, underwear, trips down memory lane, Canada, robots, yetis, ice cream, singing and dancing, babies, airships, mailboxes, and more mental trauma then you can shake a stick at.

Don't forget the climactic Broadway song and dance number! With dancing girls, dancing Mounties, dancing Yetis, dancing ice-cream-cones, a bit of LSD, a phallic airship ....
er, wait. I'm thinking of the wrong scene.

Never mind.

That's for the story with the villain protagonists, which is also being done in first person. And has extra fingers for flavour.

but Imp already is our Harley Quinn/Deadpool... do we need another?

Rose Bunny wrote: but Imp already is our Harley Quinn/Deadpool... do we need another?

She's the happy side of villainy. But we need more dismemberment, impaling, and drugs.

JG wrote: Did someone ask me to have Jericho weaponize Teri for a prank?

I'm pretty sure someone asked me to weaponize Teri for a prank!

Tell her Bloodwolf has lice and needs a shave.

NJM1564 wrote:

JG wrote: Did someone ask me to have Jericho weaponize Teri for a prank?

I'm pretty sure someone asked me to weaponize Teri for a prank!

Tell her Bloodwolf has lice and needs a shave.

Here's some Jolt Cola, in case she's feeling a little tired.

null0trooper wrote:

NJM1564 wrote:

JG wrote: Did someone ask me to have Jericho weaponize Teri for a prank?

I'm pretty sure someone asked me to weaponize Teri for a prank!

Tell her Bloodwolf has lice and needs a shave.

Here's some Jolt Cola, in case she's feeling a little tired.

That is all.

null0trooper wrote:

NJM1564 wrote:

JG wrote: Did someone ask me to have Jericho weaponize Teri for a prank?

I'm pretty sure someone asked me to weaponize Teri for a prank!

Tell her Bloodwolf has lice and needs a shave.

Here's some Jolt Cola, in case she's feeling a little tired.

Or some Ripped Fuel the original formula with ephedra

null0trooper wrote:

NJM1564 wrote:

JG wrote: Did someone ask me to have Jericho weaponize Teri for a prank?

I'm pretty sure someone asked me to weaponize Teri for a prank!

Tell her Bloodwolf has lice and needs a shave.

Here's some Jolt Cola, in case she's feeling a little tired.

Devisor Brownies!

Ebola wrote:

null0trooper wrote: Here's some Jolt Cola, in case she's feeling a little tired.

Or some Ripped Fuel the original formula with ephedra

Yeah, they made Skeleteens take it out of Brainwash for the same reason (though they called it ma huang, which I gather is the Mandarin Chinese name for it, possibly as an attempt to hide what it was). For years, the labels still had a space where it was list in the ingredients list, just blocked out. I don't know if it mainly out of laziness, cost-cutting, or as a protest against the ruling (probably all of the above).

While it is still a potent brew, it was noticeably less so after they got dinged for it. The current ingredients are still pretty much brain fuel for anyone reckless enough to drink it (and can afford the hefty price to get it shipped to them).

Brain Wash Soda ingredients list wrote: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Citric Acid, Caffeine, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Blue #1, Herbal Blend consisting of: American, Siberian and Korean Ginseng, African Capsicum, Buchu, Echineacea, Jalapeno Oil, Ginkgo Biloba, Ginger, Gotu Kola, Kola Nut, Brazilian Guarana, Skullcap (Mad Dog Weed), Clove, Damiana, Sage, Sodium Benzoate (to preserve taste).

They went out of business for a time, and the Skeleteen label got passed around by a string of bottlers over the years, but last I checked they are making it again (though without the ephedra, of course).

Having surrendered my sword to Kunena Forum in defeat and humiliation at my inability to compel it to do basic motherfucking image formatting, I will now add what I was originally going to say before I read certain posts.

My initial thoughts on this were of two things: first, the Old World of Darkness Marauder (I can't recall his name) from one of the Mage sourcebooks who thought he was still in the jungles of Vietnam, and wherever he went the sound and fury of battle would follow, which was often fatal to the Sleepers he happened to be near as his magick manifested bombs, shells, bullets, Viet Cong soldiers, etc.

Second, I thought of the scenes at the end of Blood of Amber and the beginning of Sign of Chaos in which Merle got dragged into a twisted nightmare version of Wonderland which turns out to be a Shadow accidentally created/discovered by Luke, who had been dosed with a hallucinogen. Merlin rescues Luke and escapes, leading to them making peace, but putting Luke at odds with his mother, Jasra. Both Merlin and King Random comment that as nasty as that Shadow was, it was still better than the ones they'd experienced under similar circumstances, which they attribute to Luke have a less twisty psyche than most others with Shadow-walking powers.