#diagnosing psycopathy

[aloe-vero]

hi im aloe im happily in a marriage with the woman of my dreams /j we're only dating as of now 💔 anyways i have autism if it isnt obvious by my sentence structure and also i love sharks (my sona is a shark) and im (kind of) a furry lol okay (ask me questions about myself if you want to know more (im pretty sure nobody wants to know about me but i'd be more than happy to answer))

oh so we're naming off disorders?

diagnosed:

...

definite:

autism

aphantasia

adhd

anxiety

sadism

paranoia

likely:

aspd

borderline

narcissism (npd)

ocd

avoidism (apd)

schizotypal

hypomania

maybe:

schizoid

depression

negativism

masochism

shows minimal symptoms of:

psycopathy

histrionia

if youre going to talk to me about how self-diagnosis is bad blah blah blah-- not everyone's able to get diagnoses for the disorders that they have! in my current situation, i'm actually discouraged (by my mother) from getting diagnoses for my issues-- and while i do think i need to go get checked, i'm unable to. so please, if you're going to talk to me about it, just keep it to yourself.

[your-shower-thoughts-are-stupid]

Hi, can you elaborate on the "socipathy and psycopathy aren't diagnoses" thing? I might've made a mistake...

Happy to help!

So, neither sociopathy or psychopathy are real diagnoses in the DSM-5, the literal book used to diagnose mental disorders. It is THE standard in an increasing number of countries.

Sociopathy is not a real diagnosis because it is a non-diagnostic term for people with ASPD, or Anti-Social Personality Disorder. It is not a useful term, given that it is used by the media and laymen to refer to people who do not follow social norms in some way, and in this usage, often has no association with ASPD. Because everyone has different definitons for a psychological descriptor that means nothing beyond "crazy" would, psychologists do not use this term to avoid confusion. Likewise, Psychopathy describes a set of personality traits in a similar way, especially given the fact that the two terms are used almost interchangeably. It is also not a diagnosis, but a descriptor for people with ASPD, which, like Sociopathy, is not standardized.

In other words, they cannot be diagnosed because there aren't any traits listed for them in the DSM-5. I despise the use of these terms as they achieve nothing other than carrying a stigma for people suffering from a personality disorder.

[the-writer-that-never-writes]

I was going to die. Fate had other plans for me. I wouldnt say I didnt deserve it. I wouldnt say I didnt want to live either. I was a ganger on the streets of Serenity City, a low level grunt. A nobody just like everybody else but in one moment, I was about to be run over. Just chance. Just something thatd happen to me and the world would move on.

In that moment time stopped, and red strings wrapped around me and bound me tight, and the next thing I knew I was jerked forward, the van passed, and there I was face first in the pavement. Now to passerby, they said I jumped. I couldnt have. I couldnt move. Something else, took me, pulled me forward.

I didnt know then but id be cursed after that. The strings carried a weight to them, I couldnt see them anymore but I could feel them, pulling me this way and that way. It wasnt long until they started to whisper in my head "You have a role to play, Edward. You will be the villain."

It was more likely I had a screw loose! But no, time after time all I was diagnosed with was megalomania, and APD veering on psycopathy. I was a man like any other, in the face of a greater power, and that greater power told me that I was to be the hand of evil on this world? That I was to be cruel, and greedy, to what... motivate a hero?

Thats when the strings tugged more, pulled forward. And thats where our story begins, because if im the villain... who is the hero?

[thefolioarchives]

Reading of 2021, part X

I decided to revive this because, to be honest, it's been bugging me that I never finished the thing. November came along and we moved house and I started a new job and you forget certain stuff. But I was also quite proud of all the books I read last year and I also read some absolute, soul-wrenching, joy-filling bangers (as what follows will be a testament to) and I wanted to share that.

46. Redhanded: An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, And What Makes a Killer Tick by Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire

I've been a follower of Redhanded the podcast for a few years and I find Bala and Maguire's approach to true crime to be a breath of fresh air. It's on-the-nose, inquisitive, challenging and funny. They manage to cover a lot of cases I've never heard of before and that their episode covering the story of Robert Maudsley ("The Most Dangerous Prisoner in Britain") is the show at its best, is a hill I will gladly die on. Their book follows the same kind of style as their podcast and their "identity" is retained throughout. Each chapter follows a particular topic related to killers and serial killers, like "Genetics" and "Misogyny", where the girls dive into the science behind it, using a famous case as a "study". There were a few cases I hadn't heard of in this book and a lot of cases that are covered in the podcast. I found the chapter on Childhood to be particularly interesting and feel like I'm wrestling internally with the challenges posed by diagnosing children with psychopathy. The chapter on misogyny really made my piss boil (the incel chapter) and I found the chapter on cults also very fascinating. My two criticisms at this juncture is the decision to put in italic certain things in brackets, but not all. It was a stylistic choice that made the formatter in me twitch. Second criticism: The title promises an exploration of cannibals, as well as criminals and cults, yet I couldn't find a single mention or case of a cannibal in this book. Did I have a stroke and completely miss it? Is it a joke of some kind they've addressed in the podcast but at the end so I wouldn't have listened to it because I don't listen to it all the way to the end because I don't care to listen to everyone who's joined as Patreons? Either way, it was a great start to October!

47. The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan

The cover of this novel suggests more of a romance/supernatural narrative than the meta, digressing, nightmare-sequenced, nuanced tale Kiernan actually takes you on. Sarah Crowe has left her home state of Alabama for Providence, New England, in the hopes of finding the time and peace to write her next novel (now, if that doesn't make you want to read it, I don't know what will). She never starts the novel (obviously, what did you expect?), but what she does start is a journal of her time at the farm she now calls her current residence and the red oak tree, source of many a tragedy over the past 300 years. I'm still new to horror in fiction and I don't know that I've discovered exactly what terrifies me (apart from that one scene in VanderMeer's Authority when Control finds Whitby in that crawlspace/utility closet, crouching next to a cosmic horror mural, that scene will always send shivers down my spine), but I do know that I enjoy the creepiness of Kiernan's story. It reminds me of when I read The Haunting of Hill House for the first time, how everything was just slowly becoming more and more creepy, slowly edging towards some resolution after considerably, almost unbearable teasing. Coupled with this creepiness and unease, is Crowe as a writer. The prose is almost stream of consciousness at times, grounded by countless references to literature, art and popular culture. I, personally, enjoy when authors use references to other works in their writing. There's something comforting about the fact that people want to reference back to other works as if to say, This is not new, I did not have this idea first, to show how nothing is original and that things work in spirals and not a linear fashion. Which again is what Kiernan also does with the history and horror of The Red Tree. There is the sense that history will always repeat itself, but also that different places in history will touch each other, interact with each other. There is also something inherently primal to Kiernan's narrative and the horrors we encounter, which has been somewhat of a relief after my tumble down the "Christian" rabbit hole, so to speak. Not necessarily a retreat back to nature, although the story revolves around a tree, but to something more than that. Nature is maybe too simplistic a word for what we encounter here. Either way, I absolutely loved it and never wanted it to end.

48. The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

What I've ultimately been intending with creating this catalogue of the books I've read in a year, is to remember the truly good ones. To put down my feelings about them on the paper, to reflect on what I've read so it can stay with me a little longer. This book is definitely one of those and I could not put it down. After finalising her divorce, Kara moves into her Uncle Earl's Wonder Museum, whilst working freelance as a graphic designer trying to get her life together. The adventure that follows is a page turning, deeply unsettling mind-bender. I haven't underlined the pages in a novel this much since I was studying for my master's. I kept going back and forth in the narrative, to make sure I'd understood everything and given myself enough time to reflect on what I was reading. The prose is hilarious and Kingfisher is very generous with her characters, they're all given time to truly shine on the page. Uncle Earl immediately stole my heart with his inherent kindness and love for Kara; Simon (the barista next door unwittingly thrust into an alternate dimension quest) becomes a voice of reason throughout the novel, the voice of every horror fan who've screamed at the TV because the characters in the film opened a door no one in their right minds would open; Beau, "the benevolent Ghengis Khan" of cats, making cats proud everywhere. In sum, reading this book felt like an absolute treat. I'm finally anchored in a genre where every reference felt like honouring a close friend and there is something darn special about that. I can't wait to read more of Kingfisher, she might be (definitely is) my new favourite author.

[a-biochemist-not-a-bird]

“Psychopath” is not an insult. It is not interchangeable with absolutely horrible terrible person. It is a mental disorder. Not someone who does really shitty things. So think the next time you start to call someone that. 

[sufferizm]

Every one quick come and point and laugh at this person "psycopathy doesnt exist therefore it must be a different mental illness that conveniently diagnoses people as evil disease"

@porcelain-animatronic

[sintreaties]

Idk, studying and analyzing characters with obscurities is extremely fun and important even. Many classic novels explore the minds of characters. And I believe it's important for the mangaka to not give a prognosis to continue this analysis and it allows for spontaneity in the characters. And there are some correlations to real life diagnosis. (although I don't think she really cares about psychology or sociology cuz then she wouldn't be a mangaka) However, symptoms aren't a diagnosis and that just makes it even more fascinating.

However there are already negative troupes being portrayed in the manga. Ie midairi's behavior may be labeled as psychotic, it certainly isn't "normal". Anime is made up and anyone can be anything. I would hope that no one is actually taking information on personality disorders from a manga. However, I do believe I read a thread where a psych major (not an actual Dr obviously) pretty much agreed that there was some disorder going on. I mean truthfully you don't need any formal training to analyze a character. And characters can't be diagnosed since they aren't real. And besides that ruins the fun. I think it's important to dive in and make correlations. Especially with mind oriented animes like death note and the such.

“Characters can’t be diagnosed since they aren’t real.”

Exactly. Then why are you using real terms that indicate real illnesses on them?

“It’s extremely fun.” Honestly, this is so disgusting to hear. Why would you let someone else’s REAL mental illness offer entertainment to you through fictional media?

Of all the things one can do as a creator to stimulate analisys of the characters and such, I can assure you this is not what you want to do and I say this as someone who also wants to be a creator and who has learnt through others’ mistakes, mistakes that have been repeated for ages.

(CW for gross misrapresentation of DID and psychopathy in media, brief mention of suicidal tendencies and psychiatric clinics)

For an instance; of those who didn’t read it and thus ignored the presence of the “potion” in the plot, many believed and still believe that the protagonist of “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde” is affected by what was once called Multiple Personality Disorder. There are two personality in one person, why would anyone call it something different?

Because that’s not how that disorder, now called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), works! DID stems from continuous and repetitive abuse between the age of 7 and 9 years, when the personality of the individual is supposed to form. Instead, because of that truama, the personality develops a “system” of alters, each with the very precise function of protecting the individual from further external abuse. Consequently, it’s a gross mistake to believe one alter (that is, a part of the system different from the host) able to be a killer or anyways someone who would hurt others “just because”, as it would put the host in great danger.

(I chose DID as an example because I only recently learnt about it. I’m not an expert nor do I have DID myself, but to know more, check out this or this channel)

That book was written in 1886. “Psycho” came out in 1960. “Split” came out in 2016 and guess what? They all make the same mistake, which perpetrates the stigma and the idea that people with DID are dangerous only because it’s “”fun”” and “”entertaining””.

Maybe it is for some (ignorant) neurotypical people, but I’m fairly sure that’s not the same for those actually affected by this disorder. If you have to rapresent it, and you want to inform and entertain others, why not talk about that australian girl who became a lawyer and thanks to her 2500 alters managed to send her abuser in prison for 30 years?

If you have to rapresent someone with psycopathy, why use a Ted Bundy documentary or show a young woman incapable of accepting one’s love without forcing her lover to jump off the fifth floor of a tower? Do all people affected by psychopathy usually do shit like masturbating in a public restroom after they tried to blow their head off? Of course not, but when talking about it, do you think people will think about that grandiouse gesture or about the poor guy with a therapist who as much as he tried to, didn’t manage to keep his girlfriend because although innocuous his disorder was putting a strain on their relationship?

Actual people, real people with disorders are people too, and they deserve something better than to be connected to such negative examples. It’s the same reason why the abandoned psychiatric hospital in horrors is an awful thrope. Clinics like that are supposed to be a refuge for the mentally ill. Why should a person with suicidal tendencies be afraid of going to one, only because the main rapresentation society got is that it’s a place for dangerous and heavily mentally deranged monsters?

I said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s disgusting to hear that someone is entertained by such things.

You want to make theories about your faves? Sure, but leave out mental illnesses. Lore exists. Canon facts exist and if one needs to rely on mental disorders to explain certain things, if they feel like that is even an option in the first place, maybe they should either change their mentality or choose a different piece of media.

All this is to explain why I refuse to talk of fictional characters in such a manner and why I will not accept such talks in my social medias spaces. I won’t come for anyone’s throat if they do the contrary, but I certainly won’t support them.

I apologise about the long reply; but I hope I proved my point and that I was able to educate those who are actually interested in this issue.

[fuckmyexistancethx]

Dirk #3

I just wanted to list some of the mental health issues I mentioned I had in a former post. I like the attempt of organization.

Also bit of a disclaimer please kids don’t self-diagnose yourself when it comes to mental health, I did in this timeline because I hardly ever left home. Just No Okay good.

PTSD- Honestly I can’t remember this one , it was just a really strong feeling and maybe I didn’t have it, I just assumed or something.

Depression- I think I realize I had this when I recalled compared to my friend ( the alpha kids ) I was much more unhappy all the time, I had to Force it through ironic jokes and memes that I didn’t even find that amusing. Other signs of depression include that hopeless feeling which I got regularly if not daily, the oversleeping or lack of sleep, I think I had insomnia or something because sleep was always hard for me even though I didn’t like leaving my bed. Anyway , feeling like you’d rather be dead. I wished I was a few times. Finally abnormal eating behaviours ether overeating or not eating enough. In my case I didn’t eat a healthy amount, Bro kept my living space quite wealthy with food but I would rather snack on a bag of Doritos then eat full proper meals.

Anxiety- Since I rarely left home I developed Social anxiety where when I did actually leave the house I would end up panicking over the amount of people swarming me ( for different reasons ) and just some other things like when I could tell some people were mad at me and they yelled at me I would try my best to keep a straight face and pretend it didn’t bother me but then my throat would get tight and it became harder and harder to pretend.

Borderline Personality Disorder- I was probably always wrong about this one but I blamed my inability to keep a stable relationship and the fragility of my emotions on this specific disorder. Usually people with this disorder also have depression and anxiety symptoms involve efforts to avoid abandonment which I … don’t really know how to talk about. Impulsive dangerous behaviour that threatens your safety, you’d be surprised what I could get my little ass into. Lastly having stress-related paranoia and and a sever dissociative symptoms. “ Studies show that people with this disorder may see anger in an emotionally neutral face and have a stronger reaction to words with negative meanings than people who do not have the disorder. ” I felt like adding this in there too from a web-sight I was looking through.

Psychopathy- Honestly this one is probably iffy too. I don't mean psychopath in the way society makes it out to be (someone who is deemed "crazy" because they did something someone thought was unruly). No I'm going by the definition. A Person who has a hard time showing emotion or empathy while being socially violent. Now that I look closer it is very unlikely that i was psychopathic, as I don't hold my self-worth higher than any one else and have a lack or remorse, because let's face it I regret sooo much. I think the emotional part and empathy part really got me at the time. So I won't really count this one anymore.

[a-swines-baptism]

BEGINNINGS

BEGINNINGS- The start of their journey. Usually includes inciting action and learning the ropes of their new predicament.

{tw: misgendering, deadnaming, homophobic language, mild medical/hospital reference and general malpractice of mental health}

{Amanda's childhood wasn't very great, but if you insist-- here's one of the many moments in her early life where things took a turn for the worse.}

Danny kicked his feet idly as he sat on the paper-covered examining table. The doctor's office was stark, with puke-yellow walls and tile floors like rows of tombstones. Whoever designed the place clearly didn't like kids, he assumed. Across from him sat his mom and his dad-- she looked concerned while he looked a little annoyed, like Danny had meant to get himself stuck under a log and nearly drown in Lake Monroe. Of course he hadn't, he just thought there'd be air waiting on the other side, and there wasn't. Simple as that.

Of course, the fact that he was laughing when they got all the water out of his chest didn't seem usual. Maybe that's why dad was annoyed with him. That kind of stuff wasn't what you laugh about.

The doctor came in; she was almost as short as Danny was, which he also found funny. Only, this time he didn't laugh, because he didn't want anyone to yell at him. "Hi, Jane and Frank Young, right?" she asked, getting a little nod from each of them before rounding on the kid. "And you must be Daniel. I'm Susan, it's so nice to meet you." "Danny," the kid corrects. "I don't like Daniel." "Hey," warned his father. "Be polite." "--Danny, please." "Okay, Danny." Susan nodded like she'd remember it for even five minutes. "Well, it's nice to meet you. I heard you had a nasty time at the lake?" Danny nodded. "I got stuck under a log. I think I died for a second." Immediately, his mom sat up straighter. "He's exaggerating. Frank noticed almost immediately and jumped right in." She was using her nicer voice, the 10-year-old noticed. She only put it on when there were people bigger than her around.

"It's okay, I wasn't scared," he added, trying to copy her politeness. It was his way of showing he noticed, and he knew she heard the change. "And I feel better now."

"Right, well, we're probably going to have you come back if you feel sick in the next few days," Susan hummed. "There's plenty of things in freshwater that'll do that to you. Now," she continued, turning away and facing his parents, "you said something about being scared he'd hit his head, but we haven't seen any symptoms of a concussion. Maybe you could fill me in?" Frank shuffled awkwardly in his seat. "He was laughing, is the thing. When he came to again, and I'd understand if it was tears or being scared but-- I dunno. It was unsettling." Danny wanted to say that it was really simple, he'd just been shocked and confused by everything and that was the first thing that had occurred to him. But, for whatever reason, he stayed silent.

Susan eyed him for just a second, a blink too long for it to be meaningless. “Hmm, that’s a little funny for sure. Does he get along well in school?” “I do okay.” “He’s had some spats with the other kids, recently,” Jane supplied.

“Their faults, though.”

“Hmm.” Again with the humming from Susan. “Well, before we send you home I think I’ll have you see one more person, then. Just as a ‘why not’.” Danny was the last person to learn that he’d been diagnosed with “Conduct Disorder”. He didn’t think that was the case. But it stuck with him for a while, and his parents beat it into his head enough that he began to believe it. Then high school came, and word got out that the Young kid was a queer, and after a few bouts of letting off steam they decided that, actually, it was APD. Another year, and they decided severe APD. Psycopathy. Not only did he not have the ability to tell right from wrong, he was also very good at lying, so they’d have to be very careful and make sure he’d never escape that diagnosis. And, every time, it felt like he was the last person to find out.

Eventually, he agreed with them. He was never quite sure if it’d started when they thought it did, though.

[apathetic-3mpathy]

Please help me with this experiment!

Hello everyone! I am conducting an experiment that will find the average psycopathy scores for each fandom to see if there is any trend. If you can, please fill out the below quiz (not mine) and either reply or dm me your results through text or a screenshot alongside your primary (and maybe secondary if it's close) fandom. I will be visiting multiple chat rooms today to see if any of them can do the quiz as well. This is done only to satisfy my own curiosity and no personal results will be posted, but I will be posting the mean average of each fandom.

It would also be really helpful if you could share this page to any of your friends.

Also, as this quiz is not designed for anyone young, please do not fill out this quiz if you are a child or young teen.

Thank you in advance for your help :)

Quiz:

https://www.idrlabs.com/psychopathy-spectrum/test.php

P.s: I've believe this quiz mixes up sociopath and psycopath, so watch out for that.

P.p.s: this quiz is in no way a method of diagnosing psycopathy, so don't worry too much about your results.

[cat-prisun]

(Psycopathy anon again) wait nvm i scrolled down lol. Also yieks ppl big mad when in reality even if it was scientifically correct to call trump a sociopath it wouldn’t excuse him from being shit or anything. People like to turn to mental ill as a scapegoat but reality is it takes a shitty person to do shitty things. Mental illness can be a factor but not a cause.

exactly like people with mental illnesses can be bad but having a mental illness doesn’t make people bad and it doesn’t excuse their bad behaviour. but people don’t want to accept that trump is just a bad person so they have to armchair diagnose him bc the concept of bad people without mental illness is foreign to them

[coolforcats]

As of S02E06 - Blaze of Glory everyone in Justified FX is both stupid and/or insane with the ironic exception of Boyd Crowder. 

**Spoiler Alert**

US Deputy Marshall Raylan Givens - Mostly smart except for the small problem of him sleeping with his ex-wife while she’s still married. And misappropriating federal resources to run checks on people for her. And stealing evidence (3 x $100 bills) for her. Anything where Winona is involved basically and add in his disturbing propensity for shooting.

Winona Hawkins - Sleeping with Raylan while married (look this just causes a whole host of problems in TV), and stealing evidence from the US Marshalls.

Ava Crowder - She shot her husband (justified to be fair), then started sleeping with Raylan despite his involvement in Boyd’s shooting causing Boyd to be released. Refuses to leave Kentucky after Bo Crowder gets out, I mean really.

The Entire Bennet Family - Does this really need to be explained? Coover is just plain stupid. Dickie is stupid and insane leading to plans such as stealing OxyContin and getting the Marshalls involved. Doyle is more intelligent but insane for implicating himself in his brothers crimes. Mags is intelligent but insane for many reasons, breaking Coover’s fingers is just the start.

Wynn Duffy - Just good old plain insane. I’m reasonably sure he can be diagnosed with psycopathy and I mean like full on Hare Psychopathy Checklist - Revised diagnosis.

Arlo Givens - He scams so many people. Drug dealers, the soldier with the grenade, his son, the US Marshall Service, the Crowder family, his wife Helen (the most dangerous person on this list).

Helen - Married Arlo. Either stupid or insane I haven’t worked out which yet.

Dewey Crowe - So dumb, so very very dumb. Raylan Givens calls him dumb.

The Crowders (except Boyd) - Bowman got shot, statistically a dumb move. Johnny betrayed Bo, statistically also a dumb move. Bo started trying to control Boyd and got in deep with a Miami drug cartel, neither of which are smart in any way but at least the Miami cartel are safer than Boyd. Statistically.

Cheif Deputy Art Mullen - Willingly employs Raylan Givens. For a given definition of willing.

Boyd Crowder - Okay so he’s a criminal but hear me out, all his plans are amazing. Sure he gets caught at the end of the pilot but there is so little evidence against him that without Raylan and Ava’s testimony he’s out and there is no use pursuing a case against him. While he’s in prison he turns his life around and it sticks. Or at least it is at the point where I’m at, the heist of a heist at the mine not-withstanding, so he’s not stupid. He’s not insane by any armchair diagnosable mental disorders. He’s certainly not a psychopath, the heavy drinking implies that he’s struggling to accept other people’s opinions of his attitude change meaning he certainly has some strong feelings to work out.

In conclusion, Boyd Crowder is the only sane member of this group. Feel free to change my mind. No spoilers though please. I’ve stayed surprisingly spoiler free for this.

[sell-spell]

The Four: Roles In Conflict

Despite the fact that The Four is a first-generation team of International Heroes the team has garnered a great amount of recognition and attention for their cooperative team-work. The remaining three members point their success to the structure they have as a team. Each member fulfills a particular niche beyond just what their quirks or skills would fulfill.

And of course... Its based off of the four horsemen of the apocalypse

“The Famine”- (Currently filled by Joint) Primary Role is to be diplomatic and non-aggressive enough to hopefully convince the offending war-criminal to turn themselves in.... Joint has a tendency to be more scary than diplomatic, however. He does his job well as many a times between his own domineering persona and the renown his team has gathered many war criminals turn themselves in and face a slightly lesser punishment for doing so. Often in circumstances where rules were not meant to be broken the UN will personally look to him for personal witnessing regarding an assailant. He is both your worst nightmare and your best friend.

“The War”- (Currently filled by Rally) In comparison the primary role of the “War” seat is to agitate and apprehend escaping or attacking villains. Due to Rally’s unique quirk he often does this by saving Joint and activating his quirk- having the criminals own friends turn against him and themselves in a time of need... Rally has been known, however, to be the most brutal and physically capable of the members, such as his seat would suggest. Although it is wanted for criminals to be brought in alive Rally has brought back MANY criminals in body-bags due to the activation of his own quirk. Despite showing little remorse for his actions-- he has not been diagnosed with Psycopathy or Sociopathy-- and it is suggested that he’s merely gotten used to the results his own quirk produces.

“The Pestilence”- (Currently filled by Numb) The Pestilence seat is a bit of an odd duck in regards to what the role does. The seat was made for eliminating threats from afar and possibly over a long period of time- and is only used in light that “The War” cannot handle an infraction on their own. Numb is prepared to track down escaped war-criminals for days on end to get the perfect shot- though he rarely has to. At this point if Rally has failed; Numb assumes the target is too dangerous to leave standing and he shoots to kill for the safety of the soldiers around him and of his team-mates... On the reverse side of the spectrum Numb’s experience as an accomplished field medic allows him to tend to the wounds brought by the criminal or given to the criminal by Rally or Joint- his quirk being an incredible help for that as none have reacted negatively to his anesthetic touch.

“Death”- (Formerly filled by Memoir-- To be replaced by Banshee) Left unfilled for a long time, tragically, due to the currently unknown whereabouts of Beatrice Rawlings. The Death Seat is considered the “Merciful” seat of the four- primarily focusing on the traumatic experiences of victims, hostages, and surrounding soldiers. Memoir’s quirk erased memories whole from victims plagued with ptsd. Banshee (formerly Curse) is an avid protector of civilians from afar and will often offer her weapon as a way to produce suppression fire against any infighting. Either way; the Death seat has and will always be centered around the assistance of civilians and victims.

[gayspideysense]

Is Campbell horrible? Yes. Are his actions in any way redeemable? No. Is explaining his actions by diagnosing him with psycopathy the answer? No,actually! A lot of people have a lot of different illnesses and it’s not ok to say that some people are born killers just because of a way their brain works. Yes it’s easier to be a shitter person but don’t discredit the work people do to be better with saying some people are just born to kill.