(June 18, 2012 at 9:50 am)Cinjin Wrote: Can you imagine wanting to love, fear and serve something that you know had it in mind to break you?!?
No wonder these stupid bastards are so terrified.
It's probably some form of Stockholm Syndrome, or more likely (or even combined with) the kind of psychological dependence that keeps victims in abusive relationships.
Quote:Researchers discovered that many who live with chronic psychological abuse still see certain positive traits in their abusers — such as dependability and being affectionate — which may partly explain why they stay.Source
Perhaps this goes some way to explaining why they're so desperate to want their invisible partner/captor to exist.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
