#they get a very traumatised kid with mood swings^2

[malachitezmeyka]

I spent two hours crying, then wallowing in self pity, then crying again before finally calming down and now I’m just going around making myself lunch-dinner and watching the Sarah Jane Adventures like nothing happened

[atopearth]

Diabolik Lovers: Haunted Dark Bridal Part 2 - Sakamaki Kanato Route

Time for the crazy little boy Kanato! I mean, he's not really little but he looks like he is, and he holds Teddy around so... Honestly he creeps me out most of the time so I don't know how I'll feel about this, but apparently Kanato is very popular so I guess I'll see if I change my mind towards him. I would like to question Yui's sanity for thinking she wants to talk to him more and believe that she and Kanato will get along LOL, I obviously think the exact opposite haha! I love how Kanato told her off for talking to Teddy so casually, yep Yui, good luck. What a nut, he just poured hot ginger tea on Yui's hands because he didn't want it, like I honestly thought she'd give him hot chocolate or something lol but oh well, gotta show the crazy. Even though I don't like Kanato's looks, I feel like I'm going to actually enjoy how crazy he is, am I a nut too?😂🥲 Very amusing that he eats human food considering how much he looks down on humans, guess he can't resist sweets. Okay, wow, I didn't expect him to chuck a fit and break plates and stuff because she took too long to make him French toast, and then what do you know, the little guy is crazier than I thought because he starts stabbing Yui with a fork for talking back to her! What a wonderful vampiric kid🥲 His mood swings though, you never know what's he's going to do! At least we know that he hates lies? He seemed pretty nice when Yui apologised for lying and then told him the truth about not liking that wax doll room. Gotta love how of all lines, they had to choose the one where Kanato says Yui would be wonderful as a doll to be first line they use for binaural audio! It's so creepy because it really feels like he's talking from one ear to the other and it really is scary lol! Especially since Kanato is talking about replacing Yui's eyes for glass beads and stuff. Well, seems like laughing, or I guess laughing at him is off bounds too! He'll want you to basically apologise for being born with the amount of apologies he expects from laughing a bit lol. It's actually funny how Yui gives her opinion on things like how being at a graveyard doesn't make her feel good/lighten the mood and Kanato is just like I didn't ask for your opinion🤣

Having Kanato whisper into my ear that I should just hurry up and die already makes me feel stuff, am I becoming weird? Anyway, I guess he's a pervert that likes seeing Yui cry? Love how Kanato's tears makes Ayato back off from Yui. Kanato knows what he needs to do to get what he wants. And of course he'll blame Yui for being the one making Ayato come on to her when she did absolutely nothing. Ohh, so Ayato, Laito and Kanato are all Cordelia's sons, whereas the others are from different mothers🤔 I'm glad Yui does question her choice of picking Kanato lol. Okay, I'm not interested in Kanato at all, but I do have to admit that when Yuuki Kaji moans (LOL), I die. This is a very dangerous game to play when you love the VAs haha! Trust Kanato to love roses soaked in blood the most lol (EDIT: After reading Laito's route about how Cordelia died, this gives me a newfound perspective towards this). I didn't expect him to take her first kiss so fast and so randomly though! Even though Kanato is hysterical, I can't help but find it so funny imagining Yui accidentally kicking Teddy haha, I'm sorry Teddy. It's obvious that Teddy is basically something Kanato can't live without, but his piercing screams for it and pain over not knowing where Teddy was really crushed me, sometimes I feel like I underestimate how much Teddy means to Kanato. Lol that it was Ayato who hid it as a prank though😅 So I guess he's not only emotionally unstable but seems to want to die too? I wonder if Kanato projects Cordelia's unfaithfulness with various men onto Yui and that's why he's always like he doesn't believe her when Yui says she didn't do anything. Kid seems pretty traumatised. It's funny to say that this crazy boy is softening up to Yui in his own way. I mean him willingly going out to the shops with her was a miracle lol, it didn't end well, but at least he's accepting her baked sweets and blood lol! Sorry but I couldn't stop laughing when Kanato said he pulled on a thread on Teddy and unravelled his stomach lolll, the CG was hilarious because you see the cotton come out but it looks like Teddy's stomach is foaming hahaha. Omg what, I knew Kanato was a nut but he hides drugs in Teddy and even takes them?! No wonder why he always seems so weird and high, I mean 90% is probably his personality but geez.

I felt so bad for Yui when she got kissed by Ayato and bitten by Laito, and she still has to be the one to apologise to Kanato for "seducing" them, the poor girl needs a break, it's painful to watch when other guys touch her. I think Yui has been totally brainwashed by Kanato at this point, which is sad lol, but dang when Kanato speaks in my ear like that, I feel like I'm getting brainwashed too haha. It was pretty funny when Kanato offered to help Yui clean up some magazines and she was so surprised she asked if he ate something wrong😂 OMG that was so unexpected, legit terrifying. The way Kanato so nonchalantly burnt this guy to a crisp and then said he'll flush his ashes down the toilet..WOW. I definitely didn't expect the guy to die even though I knew he definitely wasn't going to be let off easily. Kanato really is crazy.. Yui has really convinced herself into thinking Kanato isn't that bad and that actions like this are self-defence for him huh? Well, let's just say that ending 1 was not anything I expected! Not only does Yui lose her memories of everything, she's basically a shell of herself as she becomes an unfeeling vampire that only lives for Kanato. I'd say it was quite the terrifying ending especially since she'll be stuck in one room in a castle for the rest of her life because Kanato is way too possessive, so yeah that's wild.

I was wondering why Cordelia seemed to hate Kanato so much to want to kill him, and it seems like he killed her beloved Karlheinz? Honestly though, Cordelia taking over Yui's body, then pretending to be her was creepy. But dang was that a crazy ending lol. I like how unique the endings are though! Like Yui going around to all the guys wanting them to suck her blood because she's addicted to that feeling, like dang, she's really been "trained". Ooh, so getting her blood sucked makes it feel like Kanato is with her? Lol, she's really deep into this rabbit hole. Wow, Yui murdering all the guys to prove her love for Kanato was pretty nuts, omggg that was intense. I'm surprised she was able to do it. I guess considering how crazy Kanato is, I should have expected that his endings would be absolutely crazy too lol. Yui biting Kanato and drinking his blood is pretty interesting.

Overall, Kanato's route was pretty wild. I can see why people like him haha, it was definitely much better than I thought. Personally, I'm still not a fan because he's nuts and I don't like how he looks, but I did enjoy how he would randomly get so angry and annoyed at the drop of a bat. It was honestly pretty funny at times. I mean, poor Yui but it was amusing and quite unpredictable. I think his anger was only predictable once they got together, and anything relating to her not giving him her full attention and everything made him mad, which is similar to Ayato, so what we can say, they are brothers. He's definitely much creepier than Ayato and also brutal considering how happy he was when Yui killed them all for him in that ending, and vampire Yui was an interesting breath of fresh air. I still feel bad for her though because I do feel like she's the most brainwashed into thinking she "likes" Kanato when I'd say it's much more dubious here. Otherwise, I would say it's definitely worth reading his route even if he looks too kiddish because he's nuts on another level and I think everyone should bear witness to it😂

[scripttorture]

This is from an earlier ask. I deleted the original because the person who wrote the question asked for it to be made anon. The question is below, uneditted and my original answer follows that.

‘2 characters, one with the ability to control emotions and one with the ability to control mental processes. They're recruited by a torturer organization. How might their powers be useful in torturing people? Set modern day, both are 6/7 years old’

This one has taken a long time because I found it pretty vague. And I’m afraid in this case trying to get clarification didn’t really help.

The scenario isn’t even remotely realistic and as a result I don’t think I can help in the way you’d like.

I’m going to outline what’s unrealistic about the setting.

I’m also going to touch on the parts of the ask that I found vague but I’m not going to start suggesting ways to fix those because I think in this case it would be essentially telling you how to build your world. I don’t want to do that. It’s your story and I don’t think it’s my place to figure it all out for you. I do suggest fixes in asks when the scenario seems unrealistic to me, but I try to keep it to relatively small changes, related to the torture scene or the aftermath. In this case I feel like I’d be making large structural changes to the world. And that’s not what I’m here for.

So for starters ‘torturer organisations’ are not and have never been a thing.

Organisations that torture sure, but not structures that were set up by and for torturers purely to torture. Torturers aren’t very sociable creatures. And no society needs a large number of professional torturers who do nothing else.

Most torturers are and were primarily something else. Police officers, soldiers, clergymen. They become more ‘specialised’ and tend to stop doing their primary job properly but that doesn’t mean they were HIRED primarily as torturers.

Torturers can and do work together in the context of individual incidences of torture but beyond that things like organisation and command structures break down. Using torture has a corrosive effect on discipline, organisation and the chain of command which leads (given enough time) to the complete and utter breakdown of organisations and units which use torture.

Torturers, to put this bluntly, can not be organised.

And this goes doubly if they say they’re torturing ‘for’ information. Because that is competitive. They inevitably turn on each other in a drive to out-do each other on ‘results’.

Your ‘organisation’ would fracture and turn into a blood bath with the torturers killing each other. If you like I can point to historical incidences where this happened in army units that allowed torture.

Secondly your characters are too young for them to be any use whatsoever, regardless of magic powers. To the tune of about a decade.

It is unethical to expose such young children to that level of trauma and violence, something I’m sure you know but is worth stating. So let me be clear that I’m not saying they are too young on a purely moral basis but on a practical one.

Children are rubbish soldiers. And that’s part of what this seems to be driving at, the idea that this organisation can mould these kids into ‘perfect’ weapons.

It don’t work like that.

Children that age lack the level of concentration and focus they’d need in order to perform tasks well. They have different physical needs and abilities to adults. They lack the stamina to do something as physically demanding as torture inevitably is. They tend to make mistakes, sometimes lethal ones.

As an illustration of how a child would be physically incapable of anything like this I’m going to cite one of the French torturers in Algeria who guessed that he spent at least ten hours a day torturing. I don’t know any 6/7 year olds who could do anything with full focus and diligence for ten hours a day.

This is before taking into account the traumatising effect of witnessing or participating in torture.

Your characters would almost certainly start getting memory and mood problems. Having difficulty remembering and learning things will make them even worse soldiers. Having massive mood swings all the time will also make them worse soldiers.

All of these effects are cumulative.

Which brings me to the actual question.

I am still, after having asked for clarification, unclear on what these powers the characters have are supposed to do.

In conversation the asker suggested that the effects might be similar to drugs, seeing a psychologist or prolonged solitary confinement and sensory deprivation.

All of these are very different, distinct, things.

The category of drugs alone has thousands of different possible neurological effects.

Additionally emotions are not distinct from a person’s mental state.

All of which means that I honestly have no idea what these characters can do and therefore can not suggest any ways in which they might be able to cause other people pain. The suggested powers are so broad that they make no sense to me.

Both the scenario the characters are in and the concept of their powers are extremely unrealistic. It’s going against how torture works and how human brains work.

If you want something remotely realistic you’ll need to rewrite the world, concept and characters.

I suggest reading S O’Mara’s ‘Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation’ for further information on how torture works and how brains work.

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