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EdieMammon — Your Poison of Choice Chapter 15 part VI
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I can't read all of those... looks like Queen Koopa kept a diary.
Looks to Clawdia like a nightmarish version of Wonderland, or whatever that place on the other side of the looking glass is called... I wonder if some ghosts are going to give her a peek into her future if she doesn't change her ways?
Are they going to find out she cheated at the science fair and spent the award money on getting a perm and a mani-pedi? Is she going to get rich off of some cancer drug that will kill her when she gets cancer? She might not be fooled by a dream trip though; surely she knows that rich assholes never get their just desserts unless she personally doles it out to them...
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I never decided if this was a real place or not; a "real" corridor of Kastle Koopa or a part of Dead Iggy's realm. It appears many times and the subject of the painting always changes. But you knew that
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I never quite decided if "Iggy" was really Iggy sharing Ludwig's body or just Ludwig's twisted way of coping with Iggy's death, but whichever it is, he definitely looked like Iggy in my head while writing it; so much that I had to correct some part that wasn't consistent with Ludwig's anatomy.
When you're dreaming you don't notice if the pictures change, or maybe you do but your warped dream mind rationalizes it as normal, just like the iconic staircase. Of course a staircase plays music when you run up it, and the stairs might go up forever and ever and ever, even if it looks like the top is right there...
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Are we talking about yours or mine story right now? Just asking...
It's funny how in Mama's letters she unwittingly gives hints as to where Iggy really gets his madness from. Nature and nurture meet in an explosion of dilemma, contradiction and no. 2 pencils. Hmmm... The song I played when I drew the staircase for the first time was "Sink to the Bottom". It's even quoted in the very first panel. It's not a particularly dark song, but it suited Iggy's situation well - truly self-destructive individuals rarely begin gasping for air before they can see rock bottom with their own eyes. And who can blame them? Drowning is an incredibly nasty, painful way to go.
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Well I don't remember Ludwig acting like Iggy in either of your stories...
More like ballpoint pen than no. 2 pencils. Oh she fell ill while (I'm assuming) gravid with Iggy? (gravid by the way, I heard means pregnant in Norwegian, but in English it just means pregnant in the sense that a Koopa or a bird or a tapeworm or other egg-laying creature can be pregnant) That's funny; my mom had pre-eclampsia (old word for it is toxemia) when she was pregnant with my sister and I; it's more common for those who are pregnant with twins. I've never heard of any long-term effects on the baby however, except for premature birth but twins tend to be born prematurely anyway, and we were only premature by about a month, I believe. According to another report we were full-term but 5 pounds and some ounces is rather small for a full-term baby, wouldn't you say?
That brought to mind another not-too-dark song about... drowning, but with a positive spin on it. Not in the literal sense, of course. Wow that song's so underground I can't find it on a Google search.
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My oldest brother weighed a whopping 5 kg when he was born - he was one big sucker. I was full-term like him, but I weighed only 2.7 kg; little over half of my brother's birthweight. It's a low birthweight, but I had no health problems. No colic or anything either.
Well, no. 2 pencils are just plain essential! 
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That translates to 11 and 5.94 (yes I did that in my head) respectively in pounds... still more than I weighed. I can't recall if my sister even passed the 5 lb mark. I got most of the food but I needed a blood transfusion soon after birth because my umbilical cord was so short that it snapped. I think we were colicky or something because of being born on cocaine, at least according to my aunt who fostered us while we were infants until our mother could get us back, but she's hardly a reliable source; my mother says she hardly took enough cocaine to cause an issue and swears we were the best behaved babies ever but she's not reliable either.
And Ludwig continued to be left with less than the needed supervision after Iggy was born, since Iggy required so much attention. How exactly does that harm Ludwig; does it just let him get away with bad behavior, give him time to come up with sinister plots, cause him to become even more resentful of his stepmother and brother, or was he still at a developmental stage at which he needed some level of supervision?
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It's just not a good idea for someone like Ludwig to be left to fend for themselves for too long. He was still a little too young when his other brothers arrived to care about the extra attention and gifts lavished on them. Before Iggy could hatch little Kooky's psychopathy had begun developing, and the new little brother was caught in the middle. If you ask me, psychopaths belong in the basement eating canned soup delivered through a cat flap. But the royal physicians thought otherwise, that with proper socialization and positive reinforcement Ludwig would become a functional member of society one day. But no one had time to follow through and keep up with the program, nor paid much attention, and then Iggy arrived, a demanding, fussy little Koopa. In the meantime Ludwig, left to his own devices, began resenting not only Mama Koopa, but his entire family. He found it both easy and convenient to take his hatred out on the pretty much defenseless baby Iggy rather than his powerful father, his well-guarded stepmother, powerhouse Roy and speedy Lemmy.
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Strangely, however, he fell in love with, or became infatuated with anyway, the very thing that he had started off hating so much. Is it usual for such strong emotions to turn from one extreme end of the spectrum to the other so readily?
How did his psychopathy manifest itself when he was so young? Was it inborn, a side effect of his intelligence, or might it have something to do with whatever became of his own mother? I'd say it had something to do with the Freaky Fred's incident but wasn't it his psychopathic behavior that landed him in there in the first place?
It doesn't sound like his family was particularly cruel to him; they were, at the very worst, indifferent. I've never been treated with cruelty by my blood family either. I wonder if I would have abandoned them altogether if they were as cruel as the Bitch. Does it even take a psychopath to be as evil as she was? They say that the first sign that someone is a psychopath is that they treat animals with cruelty, and that those that are cruel to animals are almost certainly cruel to people. But the converse is a blatant falsehood. The Bitch loves animals; she borders on one of those people-hating animal lovers. Needless to say, my once-fanatical love for animals toned down a bit after the hassle I went through slaving for her and her family's dogs and pigs and goats and chickens (the cats I never minded though; I got cuddles in return for their care 
Did young Kooky do cruel experiments to animals; experiments that would be unethical under the law to do even on mice, just for the sake of cruelty? Shoesforbrains sure as hell didn't mind inflicting cancer upon all those poor mice to pay for those damn shoes, and she didn't even have to go through years of medical school to harden up for that. SCIBRATS ARE FUCKING PSYCHOPATHS
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Ambivalence is common in all who suffer afflictions of the mind. And everyone who don't, from time to tome. That's a safe generalization. Ludwig is lucid enough to understand that Iggy has nothing to do with his anger, but he doesn't care enough to stop. Because of his malignant narcissism the guilt disguises itself as an infatuation, and the more he abuses Iggy, the deeper this infatuation, which is guilt, grows. His sexuality must have thrown itself into the mix somewhere along the line and for some reason, it revolved around Iggy only. This kind of bonding is actually not that uncommon, especially in male child abuse victims. Narcissists are quite often self-loathing and find targets on which to displace unpleasant emotions. At first Ludwig chose childish ways of asserting his power and status as the oldest child - stealing his brothers' desserts, pouring paint on their coloring books, sacrificing their immortal souls to Belial, you know; the classics. Then he began noticing that Iggy was the most vulnerable and easily rattled of the bunch; the real runt of the litter. At first, Lemmy's convenient size was considered, but the little bastard was just too darn speedy for him, wasn't he? Iggy was also fast, but with a taller frame and his eating difficulties, tuckered himself out rather quickly. Iggy wanted his big brother's approval, because he looked up to him. Ludwig may have started out with torturing bugs and small vertebrates at first, but according to his Freaky Fred file, the specialists were astounded at how fast he moved up to bigger prey; phonesalesmen, debt collectors, substitute teachers and other creatures that are born on dark and stormy nights. So much so that they stopped bothering with his bloodwork.
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I've noted your curiously ambivalent mind. In a way, if not taken to extreme, it's a gift. You can completely adore something and still see its flaws clearly, and you can vehemently despise something and still point out what's good about it, and maybe often it's both the same thing.
Around the time you began the bastard brother saga, I heard in the news about a woman who wrote a book that, among other things, tells about some sick things she did to her little sister as a child. The whole ordeal is certainly exaggerated by the social media, and I don't think adults should be held accountable if they did stuff such as that as young children, although it's safe to say that, if that kind of behavior carries on, they are probably not growing up in the best of households. Young children that do stuff like that should get spanked and told how wrong it is what they're doing. Maybe their parents do the same to them; maybe they're just curious and never got the attention they needed to show them better. You know that family on TV that can't stop having kids? Their show's about to get cancelled because word got loose that their eldest son molested the younger kids. Highly religious families have a bad rap for molesting their kids - every time I mention my Jehovah's Witness foster parents' little boy who "played doctor" on me, I get told his parents probably played doctor on him - but come to think of it, considering how many kids they have, how much attention do you think he got? He was probably required to babysit children before he was even old enough not to need a babysitter of his own!
Hmm, I wonder if Iggy's brains are a result of Ludwig's special "treatment"? If he could keep up with Lemmy, might Lemmy have been known as the crazed inventor?
Well at least those are mostly relatively deserving targets. I wonder what he does to scibrats...
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The problem with Lemmy was not just his speediness, but his optimistic attitude, confidence and self-esteem. Anyone can be a victim of abuse regardless of how they see themselves, but why chase the other gazelles when one has a broken leg? Iggy, who because of his many "frailties", as the House of Koopa's physician called them, was seen as less important by his father and therefore, despite Mama's pleas, rejected in favor of his more talented brothers. He was "that puny kid with the weirdo glasses", which probably didn't help his self-image, besides, he must have been starved for attention. That's when Ludwig struck, when Iggy was at his most vulnerable. In the beginning Iggy probably, although he'll likely never admit it, liked the attention lavished on him by his handsome, brilliant and very gifted oldest brother. Said brother's methods of keeping secrets was less than appreciated, and in time, Iggy started to realize how much hot water he was in as Ludwig didn't stop when he told him to. There was no getting away.
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Ludwig is a worse bully than Roy, since he's not only strong enough to physically harass others (not enough to overpower Roy, but Roy still knows better than to mess with him) but he can psychologically bully them as well. The younger ones - Morton and Wendy - are likely also too tough, plus by the time they're around, Ludwig is too deep with Iggy to bother with them anyway. Larry on the other hand is likely quite weak and frail from having his egg broken and spending the remainder of his gestation in the lab, very dependent on Ludwig from the start. Ludwig could easily abuse and manipulate this one if he is interested. Once Iggy has come into his own well enough not to be a target for Ludwig anymore, will Ludwig move on to Larry as his new victim?
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Ludwig must have realized the aftermath of Mama's death and how it affected his father and the rest of the family, chose to take care of Larry and allow him to fully gestate in a vitro tank, which is very expensive, requires constant monitoring and has only about a 40% success rate, rather than using his unborn brother's tissue in his research on shell rot vaccinations. I'd rather not speculate whether or not Ludwig was planning to pull a Humbert on Larry like he did Iggy, but if he did, it would be a pretty short-sighted scheme as it's likely Iggy would not let that happen. Besides, Iggy never got too old for Ludwig. When he grew up and tried to move out of the castle, Ludwig simply manipulated his father into reading falsified health documents stating that Iggy was still deemed insane and would soon be locked away forever. Unless, like Ludwig suggested, darling Iggy was transported someplace safe from prying eyes. This, of course, earned him full custody of his victim. Larry, while not particularly creative, would be too smart and conceited to fall for Ludwig's flattery. Unless lured with gold or something... Hmmm...
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