Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24908420-20140730082534/@comment-142.51.166.61-20150917180100

I hate to barge into the conversation but I did a piece on this subject when Locus and Felix were first introduced, on a seperate thread, I would like to know if anyone is interested in a re-post, I am not first year university and for a fictional case study I used the two characters as representations of two major mental illnesses taken to the extreme, and it really does show through as the seasons progressed. I would argue that both are insane, as both do have qualities of mental illness, but Felix's insanity actually shouldn't stem from war, as a personality like that, able to create false emotion without faltering and being capable of pathologically lying and manipulating others for their own benefit is actually a major symptom of ASPD (anti-social personality disorder). Now I drew parallels with serial killers and comic book characters in my original posting, but ASPD is caused by a larger growth of white matter and a less than average growth of grey matter in the frontal lobe from ages 1-24 years old, caused by an abusive or stressful childhood, it leads to a lack of empathy and complicated range of emotion, but also allows the person to construct a fake reaction by studying the effect it has on others, essentially creating a stage play character and intentionally messing with people, does this sound familiar? I am very much generalizing but the core idea is still there and I could explain at length. As for Locus, it is much more similar to a symptom of a dissociative perosnality disorder paired with PTSD, extremely traumatizing events sometimes force a mind to shatter (like the AI fragments if you will) but, the two personalities stay within one mind, controlling the body in their own way, case studies rarely actually come up with this disorder and therefore its hard to actually document, but it has been seen. The inner or real personality creates a shell to protect itself from trauma with, like his soldier personality allows him to, the horrors of war traumatized him so muchan entirely new personality had to be formed. But that also means that he is not suppressing his emotion, the new personality is in control, and his rare moments of lucidity are when he loses his temper, and finally turns on Felix, that wont get rid of his personality, but it shows that his inner personality may have finally gained a foothold on his insane outer self