Talk:Do-S/@comment-110.54.198.246-20190516082523/@comment-2A00:23C5:11A1:3900:2D3C:236C:464A:E51C-20190808191422

Plank2x4, I don't think her power quite works in the traditional hypnotic way. I believe it literally induces intense feelings of affection if not obsession. Imagine you suddenly have this one person that you love so much and would do anything for and this totally overrides any kind of psychological barrier including self preservation.

The kind of instinct that worker bees would have to defend a queen bee.

I theorise that over time, these artificially induced emotions would become indistinguisable from genuine love and affection. In other words, despite the source of 'artificial' emotions having disappeared, the genuine ones or psychic 'echoes' would remain. Do the living former love slaves 'grieve' after the loss of Do-S? It is interesting to think about but this is not Ghost in the Shell or some high brow sci fi series.

Compare the induction of love or a simulacrum of love to genocide, the systematic attempt to eradicate an entire race and it quickly falls flat.

As the powers and appearance of monsters is likely based on personality quirks or psychological needs, imagine this power was borne out of an intense and constant need for affection borne of loneliness or another form of psychological hunger.

For Rollo May, this motivational "drive" of which we are speaking is what he termed the daimonic. The daimonic, wrote May in his magnum opus, Love and Will (1969), "is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples.

The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both." The passionate psychobiological power of the daimonic is capable of driving us toward destructive and/or creative activity. Particularly to the extent it remains unconscious and, therefore, unintegrated into and disconnected from  the conscious personality. Much of the greatest art and most evil deeds are direct or indirect expressions of the daimonic.

Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/evil-deeds/201111/what-motivates-sexual-promiscuity

Like any kind of addictive behaviour, DoS' hypersexuality is likely to be motivated by: anxiety, anger, grief, low self estem, pain or general feelings of emptiness; as the daimonic demands an outlet, this may ironically have been the least destructive choice for both her as an individual and those closest to her when she was human.

Unfortunately, as monsterisation likely magnifies negative emotions, this daimonic imperative and the emotional and psychological factors which created it would be amplified.

In an ideal world, she would have been able to find some kind of long term fulfilment other than simply continually walking on the hedonic treadmill (theory that people inevitably return to their base level of happiness no matter what they do; as their ability to satisft their desires increases, they become desensitised and their expections proportioantely increase) but sadly this is not to be.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau beautifully explained hedonic adaptation in his 1754 Discourse on Inequality with the following words: “Since these conveniences by becoming habitual had almost entirely ceased to be enjoyable, and at the same time degenerated into true needs, it became much more cruel to be deprived of them than to possess them was sweet, and men were unhappy to lose them without being happy to possess them.” Source: https://positivepsychology.com/hedonic-treadmill/