Luckarusky 2021-06-24 17:59:521 ♡
Dissociation strikes me as the most "forced" compliance. And with such an override comes stupidity. It's basically striping away the person who was there and replacing them with a dumbed-down puppet. I can only imagine that enough of that eventually starts permanently damaging the host's lucidity. There's a similar dynamic with the Reapers of Mass Effect. (The fast method will reduce the victims to a drooling vegetable within weeks. In the slower process leaves marks, but doesn't kill the mind entirely.)