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lokigodofaces · 3 days ago

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May I suggest a third potential?

The formally brainwashed party specifically breaks rules/laws. Even things they don't really want to do. Could be wearing atrocious color combinations. Could be being needlessly rude to someone. Could be speeding. Running red lights. Stealing random crap. Breaking random crap. Getting into fights.

From this you get two options for the motive: are they refusing to follow rules again and trying to prove to themselves and others that they're free? Or are they desperate for order and for someone to control them that they start breaking rules and laws to try to get someone to tell them what to do/arrest them?

I think characters who have been brainwashed should have absolutely bat shit insane trauma responses about it. Because you can do so much with it, y'know? It's so versatile.

On one extreme end of the brainwashing trauma response spectrum, you have someone who has the worst impulse control you've ever seen, like this person is prone to spontaneous behavior like no one has ever been before. They would drive into oncoming traffic just to prove that they're in control of themselves.

On the complete opposite extreme end, you have someone who needs to micromanaged, down to the minute details. It doesn't matter that they're in control of themselves again, they need someone telling them what to do, borderline at all times. They can't function without it. You could think the word jump and this person would already be in the air.

Please is anyone picking up what I'm putting down. There's potential here I think. Like. In general.

#why do these scenarios fit so many of the characters i love lol?#bucky barnes #loki laufeyson #daisy johnson #leopold fitz #clint barton #okay so i think daisy canonically does 3a but i bet she also has lots of 1 #fitz at first is 2 but starts to edge away from that & go into the 3s #i headcanon that if bucky hadnt ran off after tws or was somehow found by steve earlier on he wouldve been very much 2 but when steve would #be controlling he'd go into 3b to try to get steve to control him. but then get to 1 at some point along the line when it becomes clear tha #steve isnt going to control him & he gets the courage to do what he wants. but as for canon he couldnt do 2 bc he was alone. but i imagine #at first he only is worried about survival & not being caught. after that he does 1.#clint i think is a mix of both 3a & 3b but he desperately wants you to think he's 3a only. like just the way he acted at the end of avenger #i felt like he was leaning towards this. i mean dude didnt even question going against orders to fight loki without telling a soul. bc 3a #doesnt mean going against literally everyone. the rebellion can be doing things with certain ppl. also he had certain lines that just fit t #vibe for me. but anyway i imagine that for the next several months at shield he was driving everyone insane. he just kept going against ord #& doing dumb stuff. & he never did anything that endangered anyone else only what endangered his own life. but everyone working w him knew #what happened so they knew this wasnt just a dumb guy but rather so trauma response & they dont really know how to help bc clint is insiste #on going out into the field. thing is sometimes it's 3a he just doesn't want to follow others. but other times it's 3b he desperately wants #someone to give him more order & structure in life. but it's only when someone he trusts gives him orders/or even suggestions. ie natasha #but he doesnt dare tell anyone that. it takes months for him to tell the shield provided therapist that. but when he's at home he tries to #hide it from the kids (luckily they're so young they prob dont notice) but he's 2 with laura. it's a very different relationship bc she's #his wife. he doesnt mind doing things for her bc they're married. & he isnt going to lash out the same way he does at shield he doesnt want #to do any of that in laura's presence. but shield isnt giving him the order he wants & it's so easy for him to do things for laura. yes he'#do the dishes & change the baby's diaper & whatever else she asks. & of course he'll ask her if there's anything he can do. he's being a #good husband is all. clint doesnt even realize what is happening. neither does laura for a long time. but soon when he's home he only does #things for laura. he doesnt even turn on the tv without asking first what laura thinks would be fun to watch. a few months later laura #realizes clint isnt being as proactive as normal. normally he doesnt ask if he can do anything to help. he just starts doing whatever he se #needs done. & he isnt spending hardly any time training anymore at home. & he hasnt even watched tv or read a book on his own. well #shield got her into therapy too bc they figured that while she didnt experience anything about loki directly it would be very hard for her

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