Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.165.25.138-20141029211037/@comment-67.204.210.92-20150317195225

Cyberninjasaurus wrote: The thing is though, I don't think Felix is insane as you guys think. He's cocky yes, but he seems actually more level headed than his fellow merc. In their respective armies, Felix is very open, social and friendly, respecting his leader and flirting with other soldiers. This takes a lot of willpower to prevent himself from going out in a fit of rage. Meanwhile Locus, the big bad, really just continues to stay the big bad even in his own army. He's silent, feared by everyone, and it is not as difficult to hide his persona. Therefore, I don't see how Felix would slip up or lose focus on anger, because he is so well at controlling his emotions The only issue with that is that Felix is a classic example of Anti-Social personality disorder (like Ted Bundy for example, look him up). The person suffering from ASPD does not feel complex emotion the same way we do as the frontal lobe is less synapses and more neural links. As such, Felix is incapable of true emotion; however, ASPD patients also are extremely adept at faking a level of emotion like this, they are extremely friendly, good at faking alturism, but they are mostly parasitic to the people they treat nicely. To back up how this describes Felix, he gets the Rebel army to pay him in large amounts of weapons they could possibly have re-purposed for their own combat means, despite not needing them at all, he is simply draining the ressources of the people he is 'helping'. On the other hand, ASPD sufferers do feel base or 'reptilian' emotion such as anger, pride and jealousy, often these emotions are amplified by the lack of other emotions, leading them to question and rebel against authority, often requiring a caretaker to keep them in check. This extreme pride when combined with a bloodlust or killer instinct is usually quite a dangerous combination, as they make perfect serial killers (see Ted Bundy) but also always leads to their downfall (See any ASPD suffering serial killer) as they will push the envelope and then become furious and careless when it blows up in their face. In that sense, Felix is extremely unhinged, more so than Locus and, if Locus knows Felix's personal file he could exploit his personality disorder for his own benefit (as the Chairman is currently doing)