(December 1, 2014 at 10:32 pm)Beccs Wrote: Technically, none, since fictional beings don't kill - their followers do.
Psychology is an easy thing to manipulate. The fictional wares of the conman... the invisible gun to rob the bank... and the ever more applicable for the insane: that fictional being is looking rather nonfictional at this moment in time.
Fictional beings inspire. Fear... morale... anger... sadness... a fictional being can accomplish much with a person. It can make someone understand something they didn't 'get', or provide courage for that last charge... or terrify into a mindless and irrationally erratic behavior set... or even kill, just because of an imaginary being.
They don't exist outside of people's heads... maybe. But inside: they are real, and they do things, and these things can have an effect. One of the most observable of this is Dissociative Identity Disorder... that splitting self full of "fake" (heh, all person is fake, perhaps) persons and sometimes these take control over the vessel the host/core would call their own. Sometimes... these people effectively kill the host, burying it so deep it may never be found.
Fictional beings are a little less fictional than one might like to think... though it probably is different by perspective. So much subjective nonsense... not a whole lot of point to go into, or care, about any of it.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
