The 'I Have a New Name' thread

[Dystopia]

People are puzzles. Sociopaths see what's on the surface, and can use that with physical and deductive evidence to piece people together in a manner that they can start to understand. Empaths read what's going on below a person's skin, and can use that in conjunction with observation of the person's behavior to lead them to evidence that the person doesn't know they've already given. These are not mutually exclusive traits (empathy and sociopathy).

What's on my mind right now?

A sociopathic empath is a callous manipulator, and is the most frightening being for the delivery of violence... essentially: the most effective kind of serial killer is the one who observes everything about a person without ever getting 'close' to that person.

Dexter's got an MO... he follows his rituals, marks victims as his kills. A 'better' serial killer would effortlessly kill in myriad manner and move on, relishing in the thrill as people try to piece together a puzzle that doesn't exist because the kill itself was simple. An unstoppable reflection of all that humanity can be.

Dexter fits a description of someone with psychopathic tendencies and some deeply disturbing SCHIZOPHRENIA (Seriously talking to dead people and all) but he is overly self-aware and thinks too much about what he does to be considered a clinical psychopath (also - He feels connections to people).

This is a great idea for a TV series. Or anything else, really

But... where would the fun in that be? Attacking an unaware target is so easy that they might as well be comatose... no rush, no thrill, no danger; a kill that won't link to anyone, but also a kill that will not be remembered. A simple slash across someone's throat as you walk past them? Boring. Ending a child who followed you out of interest into a secluded area? Dull. Killing the same kind of person all the time for the same reasons and in the same manner? Fucking monotonous. I don't know how most serial killers can stand it.

Rituals.

What I want to do, Dystopia... is to travel alone and homeless, and preferably without killing anyone who isn't being 'interesting' I'd probably assume that 'someone currently or recently engaging in rape, murder, or trafficking' would apply... but the likelihood I come across such in a manner to be of significantly more effective use with a knife than I would with a 911 call to the police is a rare rare feature indeed, and lives/innocence would almost certainly have to be dependent upon it.

You should write a novel on that

I'm just assuming that L's death and the start of that horrendous death metal and the 3 year gap signified 'new season'... I was just telling netflix to play the next video each time one ended

It gets better about 3 episodes before the end.