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[drdemonprince]

I actually do not believe humans have a guiding moral system. That does not predict or explain human behavior very well at all. Most people's behavior is far more easily explained by their emotions, their needs, and what everyone around them considers it to be normal to do. Most people will instinctively stay alive, stay comfortable, and avoid social ostracism, and their actions flow clearly from that. the patterns of behavior are predictable, but not morally consistent or principled.

And in the absence of adhering to true "morals," most humans don't go around killing/maiming/assaulting people anyway. Because there is little reason to. it's rarely fun or enjoyable, and dealing with the fallout of it would be a real pain.

I always wonder why moral theorists assume we need some belief system to keep us from killing one another. What do you get out of killing someone? It is exhausting and messy. Animals do not have a moral system and they don't go around killing other animals for no good reason. Even predator animals are highly selective in what they try to kill, because killing consumes a huge amount of energy and attempting to kill is dangerous. no living being goes around recklessly doing violence because it's bad for it, the animal.

We do not have to worry about humans being wantonly "evil". Most behaviors that we label as evil are a huge pain in the ass to do, with zero clear gain. when humans do treat one another violently there is virtually always some intense overpowering need they are trying to meet, some survival stakes that make it the better option in that moment than doing nothing.

The acts of violence and abuse that happen in the world on a more global scale occur not because of someone lacking morals, but because people in power have a vested economic or political reason to do it, and face relatively low risk. It is easy for the leaders of imperial powers to genocide people, it does not place them in physical danger, and they stand to gain a lot from it. thats why it happens. thats what we gotta worry about. that some people have clear incentives to kill/maim/rape on a global scale, and doing so costs them nearly nothing. not that people are "evil"

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I was talking to a client today about "how to identify masking" as part of the process of learning how to shift masking from a reflexive coping strategy to a voluntary and conscious one and I feel like it led to a really important shift in framework FOR ME about masking and social distress.

Paraphrasing, the ideas we came to are as follows:

One of the reasons masking can be so difficult to recognize is because, essentially, masking is the act of performing "yourself" as a mirror for the other person you are interacting with. It's this idea of "I will micro-manage my own mood, affect, behavior, mannerisms, and environment in order to reflect back to you whatever version of "self" you need from me because if I don't there will be consequences". So because masking is essentially performing "mirroring" as selfhood by amplifying or minimizing aspects of yourself based on what you think the other person wants to see in you, it varies significantly from one context to another. The major commonality is that it takes up an INCREDIBLE amount of energy, mental and emotional resources, cognitive processing power, etc. So you don't identify masking by specific behaviors so much as by the feeling of "having a significant amount of your mental/emotional resources be occupied by the act of social interaction" to the point that it doesn't leave enough left-over for other cognitive tasks, or leaves you feeling exhausted and worn out, or basically by the impact that masking has on you during and after.

In this framework, part of why we get so anxious about new or unfamiliar people or situations is because we don't know how to mask in that context yet, and so until we get there and figure it out, we're basically just terrified of what could go wrong since we don't know what we're walking into.*

*This is the underlying framework of anticipatory and obsessive anxiety as well. Anticipatory and obsessive anxiety functions as the mechanism by which we conduct both predictive reasoning-basd advance planning and review/self-correctionof our mental predictive model.

Autistic aversion to uncertainty has a lot to do with our need to be able to use predictive reasoning-based advance planning to cope with "social deficits" aka how much harder it is for us to interpret subtextual/nonverbal cues, learn/meet social expectations, and work through/around disordered sensory processing. That predictive reasoning requires us to be familiar, in advance, with the stable constant factors that influence decision making in social contexts. If we aren't familiar with the constant variables than we can't plan, if we can't plan than we are more likely to make noticeable social mis-steps, and if we take notable social mis-steps there are consequences. It becomes necessary for us to be hypervigilent to observable patterns in other people's behavior in order to try to reverse engineer the social interaction playbook on the fly. That ends up making us more likely to assume personal responsibility for predicting and managing the emotional regulatory needs of people around us at all costs, replicating the behavioral/cognitive impacts of chronic traumatic stress due to the activation of our sympathetic nervous system from chronic hypervigilence.

Essentially, masking is a cognitive defense mechanism to severe and/or persistant traumatic interpersonal stressors. As the neurological impacts of chronic traumatic stress heal, we mask less frequently. But in order to heal from chronic traumatic stress, the human brain requires a safe environment that does not trigger a retraumatization episode or replicate feelings of helplessness/fear for safety. In other words, reducing/terminating masking safely requires us as autistic people to have consistent access to social environments in which we are able to utilize autistic interpersonal boundaries without fear of consequence or chonically unmet need. This requires the people around us to be able to respect not only autistic interpersonal boundaries, but also autistic self-expression/advocacy modalities and mediums.

I feel like a lot of the pieces of this framework have been rattling around in my head for a while but the flavor of words hit just right today and all the connections snapped into place.

Anyway, I'm still sort of sorting through the clinical implications of this framework but I think it's a direction I want to keep exploring for sure.

[blitz0hno]

Nowhere to be Found - How MeMe emphasizes the Tragedy of Mikoto Kayano

Some thoughts about Mikoto's position as the host of his system and what that means for "his" life.

Mikoto is the host of his system, with severe enough amnesia that he doesn't understand what's happening when he dissociates, or that he even does so. Shots like this in MeMe, where he thinks he is staring at a reflection that moves on its own, while the audience is shown that HE'S the one stuck in the mirror, shows his feelings of losing control.

He IS the reflection. "Mikoto" is who the outside world sees/knows as "him." Since the norm is to be a singlet, the expectation would be for him to have consistent mannerisms and personality. Milgram shows is time and again that Mikoto himself is borderline toxically-positive about his situation in life. His addictions, his exhaustion, and the incredible workload he deals with are "just part of life" as a working adult. Working Adult is his structure, his identity, what he clings to. Professional, polite and always listening/reading the room. This is what he believes will help him achieve his dream.

However, since he has alters, he's not always ABLE to act like that. If he doesn't forget the other alters' actions entirely, he'll feel regret and confusion as to why he didn't present himself like that. And since he has no idea he's a system or how switching works, he's stuck not even knowing how others see him.

He, as the "Mikoto" he wishes to present to the world, disappears without even knowing it.

MeMe, however, gives both the audience and Mikoto himself his true perspective on things. How he knows he's stuck "inside" his mind, but has no clue why.

"I'm nowhere to be found," he says. His idea of "this is 'me,' This is what 'I'm' like and what 'I' like to do" is crumbling completely, as shown by the broken down walls surrounding him. This screenshot shows Mikoto staring down at his cards, about to flip them over; they are literally staring back at him, all laid on the table. This is right before the shot goes red, which I believe symbolizes both his realization at how dire the situation is, and his own self-hating perception growing stronger.

When he says the next few lines, I don't think he's just talking to Es or about Milgram.

I think he's begging his alters to put him back out. Even if he doesn't know it, it's not JUST his life, but the brain can't just accept that. It's dangerous to "just" accept that.

And it's HIS life, right? He knows what he wanted to achieve: his dreams of peace and security.

"I will NEVER forgive you if this is happening to me even though I'm right." He knows what to do, he doesn't need help; why has he been pushed away? How could his memory be wrong if it's the only stream of memories he knows? He holds up the fool card and smiles so wide, because he thinks he is sure of the path he's on. Or at least, he thought so; the stress of it not being that way gets to him more and more and the final chorus progresses.

I believe "please let me out of here" refers more to the innerworld than to Milgram, although it almost definitely refers to both. When you switch to the degree Mikoto does, and lose time, and can't understand why you can't just do what YOU want, things can feel very desperate. As he flips over his cards, the truth begins to come together. When I first saw this in 2021, I figured Mikoto was smiling because deep down he DOES know what he did, but now that we know more about him it's almost definitely caused by the stress of NOT knowing. He laughs and smiles when he's stressed; Es states that in trial 2.

He truly believes that if he keeps up this literal Front, things will turn out okay. He has no idea how much stress and exhaustion is being "taken care of" for him. That tragedy being he still feels each traumatic thing he goes through and feels the aftershocks, but can't actually say there's a problem because the problem literally feels like it's not a big deal. Since John and likely another alter holds the feelings and memories associated with his pain, Mikoto is able to shoulder the rest and carry on.

As John gets closer to front in these final scenes of MeMe, Mikoto begs HIM (essentially pleading with himself, aka his own fragmented ego state), to make things make sense again.

"please tell me it's a mistake, that it's a lie." As John switches in (shown by the red in his eyes and change of expression), the frantic lyrics highlight how scared of the truth Mikoto really is. Milgram shows us the things he has had in his mind for a good while now. He can't forgive himself if he truly "lost control" like he did.

"I'll forgive you if you tell me now," revealing the death card.

In tarot, death means highly significant change, usually having to do with self-perception and shifting circumstances. Discovering you're a system, as Mikoto is slowly piecing together, is a life-shattering change. It recontextualizes everything you know about what you remember and who you are as a person. Mikoto's frantic distress draws John closer, and in the end, the extraction process is ended by John himself.

John grabs the camera and punches it, ending the MV. Unlike Mikoto, who smiles directly into it at the start of the video, John has his usual flat expression. The main priority here is to get rid of what's causing Mikoto this stress, and to make him forget. This takes away Mikoto's agency and perception of what's around him, leaving him at the mercy of his alternate ego states, and the amnesia walls separating them. That idea in and of itself is terrifying to anyone, which is why DID is sadly the subject of many "horror" genre stories. "Becoming someone else" than who you thought you were turns out to be more nuanced the more you learn about it, but general society's idea of "self" hasn't gotten that far yet.

I also believe this is why Double has so much of John's perspective; the memory extraction machine poses the same threat any other method of revealing memories would. John must "protect" Mikoto from that by explaining his role, over and over begging to be acknowledged by someone who isn't "supposed" to know he exists. For a young man like Mikoto, who has until Milgram spent his life grinding and planning for something better, the revelation of this disorder and the pain he's truly in throws a BIG wrench in his life plans. Mikoto denies John and runs from him, although by now he truly knows he's not "normal" and certainly not healthy. Society sees that and expects that of him though, and so Mikoto HAS to keep pretending, in order to just be "him." To be "professional," "graceful," "popular," etc. is highly rewarded in the capitalist system, and that means killing the parts of oneself that are deemed "bad."

But "hurting it, holding it down, it doesn't change a thing, does it? It's the same anywhere I go. It's like what's wrong ISN'T wrong." Mikoto's lines here, further back in the song, show that even though he denies these parts of himself, his trauma inevitably seeps in, and his own perception of the world slips away in favor of the next fronting alter.

When John says "I think he's trying to disappear" in trial 2's voice drama, I believe it's because Mikoto knows to a degree that his "bad dream" was real. He knows that everything he did and built "doesn't matter" now that he's in Milgram. Might as well let the part of his brain that doesn't care what others think run the show in a place where everyone knows he's "violent."

It's not fair to Mikoto, or to John, or to our favorite mystery character Mido because Mido is implied to at least somewhat know what's happening. Maybe not in an "I'm an alter in a DID system" kinda of way, but in a "I know I have pretty bad amnesia and feel a strong desire to Not Be Myself right now" way (as shown when he's sitting on the couch after cleaning up their body, near the first chorus).

Mikoto, being the host, CANNOT even begin to suspect having DID if he's going to be a working man. But as John pointed out, no matter how much Mikoto pushes down and denies the stress, it would eventually catch up to him. And it did.

Yet he still forgets too much to understand what happened when he snapped. He still has very little idea about his disorder, and his brain will keep up that denial as long as it possibly can. When the truth of his crime comes fully into light, we'll probably see a complete crisis. Mikoto could very well disappear for awhile in trial 3 because of this. Some things, whether he likes it or not, are better processed internally. However, processing via forgetting will never completely heal that kind of wound. It becomes a cycle, and until those memories are accepted as part of him, Mikoto will never feel whole.

And this entire time, Mikoto thought his identity as a working man with a family to support was all he could should and would be; but now, he has no idea what kind of person he is at all. It's going to eat him alive. Can John save him from that? Guess we'll find out.

[arceespinkgun]

The Flaws of the Autobots (and How MTMTE/LL Does Not Portray Them Well)

This is something I've been thinking about how a while—in MTMTE/LL, it's clear that James Roberts really doesn't like the idea of Autobots being unambiguous heroes. I mean, he wouldn't have the systemic issue of Autobots forcing lobotomies and violating people's minds as a major plot point otherwise, and he wouldn't have written Thunderclash the way he did if he wasn't satirizing what an image of a heroic Autobot might be. I mentioned once before that a large number of major villains in MTMTE/LL are or were Autobots, as well.

But something that bugs me a lot is that JRo was a huge fan of the TF UK Marvel comics (I read through the letters pages and he sent in questions multiple times), and many little details and major plot points are taken from them… but in TF UK, the Autobots were already majorly flawed! But their flaws are almost entirely different than what's presented in MTMTE/LL. So I want to talk about what their flaws once were and about how JRo didn't really do anything with these ideas, and in fact ended up writing an extremely lazy attempt to flesh out both sides of the War.

Suicidality

In TF UK, by the end of the continuity, I'm pretty sure every single major Autobot suffered from suicidal ideation, expressed intense desire to sacrifice themselves, or actually did commit suicide. I'm going to list a bunch that I remember, but there are so many more: Optimus Prime (does die), Outback, Ratchet, Bumblebee, Blaster, Scrounge (does die), Jazz, Prowl, Inferno (does die in one timeline), Kup, Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, Wreck-Gar, Impactor (does die), Fortress Maximus… this is just off the top of my head, there are many more examples and this is a faction-wide issue.

The epitome of this issue is, of course, Optimus Prime. His death-seeking behavior is intense throughout the entire continuity, and at the very end when he dies but then comes back to life—as Optimus Prime normally does—it comes across like he was doomed to life.

"Perhaps even in death there is beauty," —Optimus Prime

Hating the Homeless

A bizarre and disturbing detail in this continuity is that several Autobots—most notably the resistance cell on Cybertron Blaster is part of—hold a lot of disgust for homeless people? They even use the word "Empties" for these neutrals.

No real explanation is given for this behavior, either. If I had to guess, I suspect some awful turning point in the War or something caused a lot of resentment and exhaustion, but we never find out. In "The Magnificent Six!" annual story which is set early in the War, the titular team is trying to save neutral transformers and technically do end up helping them in the very end, so I'm not sure what is going on and this really should have been explored more.

Codependency and an Unwillingness to Meet Challenges

The Autobots sometimes seem to consist of unstable leaders and codependent followers. They have an almost pathological need to serve their leader, and it allows an authoritarian strongman like Grimlock to seize power and terrify everyone. When Grimlock is first in-charge, the other Autobots stop doing their jobs and going to meetings, but none of them want to actually fight him directly and beg Blaster to do it for them and save them. This leads to a death match between Blaster and Grimlock where all the Autobots cheer for Blaster except for the Dinobots!

Even Optimus Prime, the usual leader of the Autobots, has a huge issue in which he shirks responsibilities. He does this repeatedly throughout the continuity, a major moment being when the moment he sees some degree of reasonableness in the Decepticon leader, Scorponok, he plans to have every Autobot surrender unconditionally to him in order to forge an alliance to fight Unicron (lucky for him this worked, imagine if it hadn't)!

The worst damage caused by these issues was caused by Fortress Maximus, however. He became so disheartened by the War that he takes his contingent away from Cybertron to intentionally settle on a planet he knew was inhabited, Nebulos, and then when the Autobots face prejudice and the Decepticons show up, he waffles about fighting for so long that in the end he's reintroduced War to a planet that had supposedly been peaceful for centuries and has destroyed swaths of it.

Prejudice and Ignorance

Several Autobots display prejudice toward various groups, such as humanity or the Decepticons. However, I think it's important to stress that these are not ideas shared by all Autobots. Here's a good example, where Ironhide unfairly distrusts Jetfire and Jazz has to step in to defend him:

Early in the continuity, the Autobots have some negative kneejerk reactions to humanity, and issues with this build up over time to the point that Sparkplug Witwicky wants his family to have nothing to do with the transformers anymore.

Unsurprisingly given some other things I described above, Grimlock is probably the most prejudiced Autobot around. For a long time, he just thinks the Autobots should kill humans who are in their way (the first thing that led to Autobots disobeying him) and he also literally believes that Decepticons are part of some separate, evil race. This is a completely nonsensical idea in TF UK—everyone used to be Autobots! There are no races among the transformers!—that we see characters like Prowl and Hi-Q (Optimus's Nebulan partner) give long impassioned speeches trying to refute, but ultimately Grimlock is kind of rewarded for his prejudice by the narrative which sucks. It's one of my least favorite things about this story, especially when it's entirely illogical—earlier in this continuity, a Decepticon, Carnivac, literally joined the Autobot Earthforce, which Grimlock was in charge of!

Though of course Prowl had to convince Grimlock to let this happen and was the actual one who welcomed Carnivac to their ranks later….

MTMTE/LL and False Nuance

So, that was a lot. I didn't even get to the time Inferno, Sandstorm, and Broadside got excited by a holiday and accidentally trampled a town.

Somehow this is a real thing that happened

You might be curious about how I can root for the Autobots so much and consider many of them heroic and aspirational in the TF UK continuity given all of this. To that I would say that it's two things: 1) overall, the intentions of nearly all of the characters and the faction's philosophy are good and compassionate. They generally believe in the preservation of life and freedom. 2) They are a diverse group of extremely traumatized individuals who have been at War for ages. They would not be flawless. It's shocking that they're as kind as they are, really. They should have tons of issues.

The Autobots also actively try to improve all the time even though they often make mistakes

So what is my issue with how MTMTE/LL handles the Autobots being flawed? Well, the first thing is that JRo did not explore any of the things I just described. He took incredibly minor details like the Matrix Flame of TF UK, but seemingly chose to barely expand on the major themes.

When he did try to explore things like the Autobots' complicated feelings toward organic life, he completely fumbles it. In issue #51, the main cast is debating whether to probably die fighting the DJD to save organic beings, or to save themselves. They talk about how they regret how they haven't focused on saving organics and how they regret it. This is portrayed as a dramatic moment in which Megatron convinces everyone to stay.

But oops, the Autobots already saved and liberated a bunch of organics in issue #12 and #50, and the latter was only ONE issue before this!

Those are some of the few beings the crew of the Lost Light were ever shown protecting? So why are they suddenly acting like they'd never done such a thing just so Megatron can prove how compassionate he's become?

Another, way worse issue that JRo ends up creating is that his focus is on how the Autobots are flawed, he usually puts their villainy first... but he also decided that the Decepticons ran Nazi-inspired death camps and that Megatron alone is guilty for the deaths of 100+ billion people, including many genocides and extinctions and the destruction of entire planets. The Autobots... did not do this. So this means that we're left with really awkward face-offs like this, that I think really showcase what I mean when I say "false nuance":

Also, genuinely, I feel like the evilness JRo added to the Autobots doesn't make anything more complex whatsoever. Is anybody going to look at extremely flat evil Autobot characters like Hannibal ripoffs Sunder and Froid and be like, huh, I really wonder what complex societal factors could result in people like this? And I know in this continuity he's a neutral, but would anyone look at a flat minor villain like Star Saber and think, I wish I knew why he became "The Mad Evangelist?" I have doubts that they would, because there's nothing there to actually analyze.

When there's stuff that maybe could be explored to flesh some of these characters out, it's not. Like evil Autobot Pharma, for example. We know that he was tortured and held prisoner by the DJD who made him harvest transformation cogs in order to fuel Tarn's addiction, and Pharma decided to start killing patients out of fear instead of calling for help and risking being killed. We learn that this situation drove him insane. But... everything I just said is stuff that's just told to the reader. We don't really get to see any of this. But then with Decepticons like Megatron and Overlord (who is a character with basically no redeeming qualities whatsoever in this story), we actually get to see their tragic backstories in flashback form.

When we do see an Autobot villain's backstory, we can look at how it's framed in comparison to how Decepticon villains have their stories framed. With Getaway, who becomes the main villain of MTMTE/LL, we see his origin story because he's telling it to Tailgate... the guy he's grooming.

We have no way of knowing if what he's saying is even true then, right? His purpose is to manipulate.

With Megatron, we have his tragic backstory shown to us as an interlude that's not even being presented to us by anyone but the author, JRo. And with Overlord, we see his backstory because the Autobot, Chromedome, violates his mind and injects a trigger into it. Do you see how these treatments are not equivalent?

Also, in Megatron's backstory, we learn that he has a fear of having his mind violated because characters who would later become Autobots did this to him in an attempt to stop his rebelliousness.

The Autobots nearly violate his mind again right before Megatron's trial, and he's triggered by the thought of that happening.

You know what really bothers me? JRo actually took this trend of Megatron's mind being violated from TF UK. Megatron is mind-controlled multiple times and has several identity crises in those comics. But guess what? It was Decepticons who did this to him.

Straxus and Shockwave (also Unicron later I guess who is a neutral when he turned him into Galvatron) violated Megatron's mind and traumatized him, not Autobots! So instead of exploring flaws Autobots actually had, JRo took a thing that characterized the oppressive nature of Decepticon infighting (and Unicron's desire to make other beings his slaves) and made that a crime the Autobots committed instead!

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[dare-to-dm]

I’ve been seeing more posts along the lines of “dear god, please play a ttrpg other than d&d” lately, and I can get behind that, in the general sense that I’m anti-monopoly.  I’ve  also seen plenty of posts lamenting groups who extensively homebrew D&D or use house rules to get the experience they want rather than using another system that’s more specifically designed to deliver that experience.  And again, that’s logical and not something I would argue with.

But in the midst of all this criticism for D&D, I just want to remind folks that there are a lot of things it does very well as a game, and if you’re consistently having a great time, there’s no reason to feel like you have to try new systems.  Like, I’ve been playing some version of D&D/Pathfinder since 2000, and honestly I don’t really feel like I’ve been missing out.  I’ve tried other TTRPGs occasionally, but so far Pathfinder has genuinely been my favorite and I always go back to it.  And some of my most memorable campaigns have involved extensive homebrewing, but I feel like the core of what makes the game fun for me always shone through.  Here are some things D&D is really good at that I personally don’t get tired of:

High action storytelling

Zero to hero adventuring where power advancement is itself a goal

Fun character building/customization that’s generally balanced

Empowering hero fantasy

High stakes drama

The dice significantly alter the outcome of events and no character is immune to failure

Having an extensive monster manual with a wide variety of fantastical opponents with their own lore

Having the rules as a referee for a large variety of situations

Long campaigns that bring you and your friends together for the same narrative over the course of months or even years

Tactical combat with a large variety of options and a robust enough rule-set to feel fair and skill based

A number of classes that cater to players with various preferences for flavor and complexity

Mechanics that encourage teamwork/cooperation

Mechanics that are largely separate from setting/lore, so you can use the premade settings if you want to, but you never need to

Having a large community to interact with outside of just your table

Probably a ton of other things that I’m forgetting

Like, there are a lot things D&D is genuinely bad at, and you should probably play a different game if that’s what you’re going for.  But the things that it’s good at are really fun and awesome and I feel like I could play this game for the rest of my life and never exhaust the possibilities. 

[ddarker-dreams]

Yan Risotto Nero with a F Reader who has low iron HCs. Commissioned piece.

Risotto Nero utilizes every method at his disposal to run frequent surveillance on you. He could entrust this task with his La Squadra subordinates, and maybe he would if it was for business, but this is a more personal undertaking. The skills he's sharpened from engaging in assassination throughout the years come in handy. He learns your routine, when you're most likely to be alone, what routes you take, his justification being that he can't properly protect you if he doesn't have this knowledge.

He is extremely methodical — for a time. He isn't the type to enter your home and leave behind evidence of his presence. No window or drawer is left askew. Risotto considers this a form of profiling. Engaging with you one-on-one is too risky, a fact that leaves a void in his being. He exercised better self-restraint than most yanderes would bother to employ. Eventually, though, the gnawing desire to know you won out against any shreds of respect for what little privacy you have left. What does your wardrobe look like? What television channel did you leave off on? How is your cooking? These questions and more oppress him to the point that satisfying his curiosity overwhelms any flimsy moral justification that he's simply 'looking out for you from afar.'

The life he leads is chaotic and wrought with bloodshed. You bring a semblance of normalcy, this sweet consistency that he finds endearing, though he'd never admit it. Once you're finally in his possession, you'll have a difficult time gauging his motivations. He isn't physically or verbally affectionate, the few words he utters are more like commands, and his demeanor as a whole is intimidating. What you will pick up on eventually is his micromanaging of your diet. He's unnervingly silent should you lash out, allowing you to get your frustration out of your system until exhaustion settles in, yet when it comes to your physical health, his boundaries are firm.

How he came to learn of the low iron levels in your body is somewhat bizarre. His Stand, Metallica, boasts the ability to manipulate iron. The writhing bunch made their displeasure known upon you entering his vicinity. Since Stands are manifestations of the user's soul, Risotto's hypervigilant care for your well-being bleeds into his Stand's behavior. They clued Risotto into the issue so that he could see you're taken care of.

Mortally harming the human body is more in his skillset than healing it. He is curious to see if his Stand could potentially boost the iron in your body to the levels necessary. Unfortunately, this falls outside his purview, he decreases iron in his opponent's bloodstream by focusing it and turning it into a weapon. He can't influence the levels themselves. Regardless, his Stand still enjoys lingering near you. They have no shame expressing how smitten they are, unlike their stoic user.

Risotto isn't a captor who demands much from you. About the most he'll ever ask is for you to fill the air with conversation, should uncomfortable silence ever linger. There's a warmth to your voice that sets him at ease. The topic doesn't matter and he probably won't chime in aside from an occasional word or phrase. Everyone has their own way of relaxing after a stressful day at work, this just happens to be his.

While he is sweet on you, he doesn't shy away from letting you feel the weight of various consequences. For instance, since you're more likely to feel fatigued, he expects you to sleep and wake up at a certain time. Should you try staying up later than he permits out of spite, he won't stop you. He intends to never reveal his Stand's full capabilities — such as how he can manipulate iron to reflect light around his person, effectively rendering him invisible. Unbeknownst to you, he'll be in the corner of the bedroom, unimpressed with your disobedience. Some lessons are best learned firsthand. The following day, when exhaustion weighs you down, he'll reproach any attempt from you to seek caffeine or a nap. He takes a "you've made your bed, now lay down on it" sort of approach.

This serves a dual purpose. While it's also a nonviolent method of 'encouraging' your adherence to his wishes, it also paints him in this omnipotent light. How did he know you were awake? You specifically wait until he left the room before indulging your mischievous streak. Does he have night vision cameras installed? How does he know your iron levels without taking blood for bloodwork? Over time, these strange instances build up inside your psyche. You get the sense he isn't exactly like most people yet the full extent of it is lost on you.

As a result, paranoia sets in, heady and thick. You overestimate his capabilities. Should you try this escape attempt, seeing as you're home alone? ... Are you home alone? Your hand will hover over the doorknob, covered in perspiration, internally weighing if the risk is worth it. Meanwhile, this could be an instance where Risotto actually isn't present, yet the threat looms in the air all the same.

Ultimately, he wants a healthy dosage of fear, not a debilitating amount. His rules are rather straightforward and most pertain to your health. He never loses his penchant for observing you while you're unaware, but figures what you don't know can't hurt you. When you are cognizant of his presence, he tries somewhat to come across as less intimidating. He doesn't want you cowering at the sight of him. This leads to mixed results, more often than not. He can reassure you that he isn't going to hurt you all he wants, but his towering height and muscular appearance do little to dissipate your concern.

He might not fall for blatant attempts at manipulation, but should you be sweet on him, you can earn a few privileges. It just takes a lot of mental preparation to go up to this man and try for a hug. The stress almost isn't worth the potential benefits.

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