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Stockholm Syndrome- A state of mind that affects a person who is kidnapped, held against their will, or in a hostage situation for an extended period of time. Being allowed to live after the initial shock of a kidnapping/hostage situation/etc the victim may feel an intense sense of gratitude and often uses this as a reason to believe their captor is a good person. Their captor uses continued fear and abuse to brainwash the victim into believing any family or friends they have are not looking for them or do not care about them causing the victim to transfer those bonds of trust and affection from their family and friends to their captor out of desperation. As a result, those with Stockholm Syndrome may not think clearly when given chances of escape or retaliation against their captors and will often remain with them willingly until helped by an outside force.Well, in a nut shell. This is totally in my own words because I’m too lazy to look on the internet for a more in-depth description of it. >_> But it is accurate!
I think I hate women. I find myself loving the pictures I draw like this more than any others. Putting my females (or I guess, feminized in this case?) in compromising situations is pretty much the most fun I can have in writing or roleplaying. It’s a little disturbing. Maybe it’s more because I’m terrified of finding myself in a situation like this. Being raped, kidnapped, held against my will, in general losing control over myself in some way, whether physically or mentally, is pretty much among my top 3 ultimate fears. (Dying of a debilitating illness and death via a natural disaster/space debris are the other two.) So I use art, and the placing of characters in horrible situations to confront these fears. Or something. STUPID PSYCHOLOGY, EFF YOU.
So, this is pretty much the best piece I’ve drawn to date, as far as I’m concerned. Everything came out completely as I wanted, the look on El’s face, the body language, GRR ALL OF IT. The background is made of laze but I can live with that because it’s still pretty cool looking. xD If it’s too dark, let me know and I’ll get a lighter version mocked up for you guys.
These are the kind of pictures of love because of how vague it really is. You don’t HONESTLY know what’s going to happen next. Cadaver (white prawn) could just be reinforcing his dominance by scaring the shit out of El, and it’s working. Or he could be setting up for rapetiem, I DON’T KNOW. I really like that I can make my own ending to this story, multiple endings even. That is just jfdlfjdskl THE BEST THING EVER, far more exciting to me! Which is why you don’t see me drawing porn. xB LOLElanor made a big mistake coming on Cadaver’s land, and then out of her intense terror of the general situation she was in (outnumbered and pretty much as the mercy of Cadaver) she offered to help him gain weapons parts from her job in exchange for her life. Of course, that’s a pretty damn good offer, win-win for Cadaver because now he’s got complete control over El. He’s basically made her a member of his gang and she’s forbidden to leave, save for her job, she’s become his captive and in a way willingly. She now basically lives her worst fear every day, unable to decide for herself anything about her life. Yet despite all this over time with the continued isolation and only having meaningful interactions with Cadaver she’s slowly fallen prey to Stockholm Syndrome. Even though he sometimes gives her a smack if she’s out of line as far as she’s aware from experience he’s the closest thing she’s had to friend.
Which leads us to this picture. She’s terrified of him but can’t help but love him at the same time, he’s all she has. So if, at a later date, he ever made a pass at her she may deep down resist and not want it but externally would feel like she couldn’t rightfully say no. You can see the conflict on her face, I hope. Cadaver’s face confuses me… I think that it’s supposed to though. I’m sure he doesn’t hate her but he also doesn’t truly love her, it’s more like this is motivated by simple physical attraction and as a result he also has a mix of emotions that I’m having trouble explaining... BUT I GUESS, if I succeeded, I don’t need to explain it to ya’ll. It should be unspoken!
More and more I find myself thinking that El in the personification of my inner fear, she acts like I think I might if I was her. It’s starting to scare me. WHICH ONE OF US IT REAL?? Am I really the creator or does she really exist in some way?!
I.
DON’T.
KNOW.
jfdsklfjdsal!!
TAIN'T MATURE CUZ NOTHIN'S HAPPN'IN.
But omggg, this roleplay is so hot.
I CAN'T GET ENUFF
OF YOU BAAAABEEEEEEH
DD:
Elanor is mine
Cadaver is the brain bebe of
And District 9 is MISTAH BLOMKAMP’S, BIATCH
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I searched too after you said this, it was still on the first page, but not first. 8U Still pretty damn cooooll.
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YESS
Even though I was the only one who commented
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You have a beautiful style in drawing them. (: very nice. 
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LOL I just got to say this.... that's a little kinky!!!! Me likes!!!
*looking around secretly hoping Caddy slams her up against a wall and love on her*
I'm right here... Oh no, I'm a poor innocent human female ALONE in District 9 what ever will happen to me!!!!! *screams at the top of her lungs*
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YOU READ MY MIND OMG
I would totally do that in Caddy's neck of the woods if I wasn't so sure I'd get killed before or after being violated. El has something other than physical lovin to give so, HARHARHAR.
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Yeah..... if only she wasn't so scared of him and if he wasn't so mean they would be perfect.
Still want to go to District 9 and pull the helpless human act though........>.<....^_^
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Might I say its a twisted thing for me because I really like this picture even though the underlying factors are quite horrid? I am with you on the putting characters through disturbing crisis. I can be like that too.
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Why yes, you can say that. Because I know exacrly how you feel!
So much fun tormenting them... fff I think it's an artist thing to find enjoyment in messing with our creations. xD
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that's quite cool. And i agree with you on psychology thing. I do the same to my chars. Be it mushy stuff...or putting them through hell.
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Hey, thank you!
I love all sorts of situations for my characters too, I think it's because my life is really so dull! So I get to explore without really threatening myself. Fun suff. xD
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that too : D cheers for imagination
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This is quite win. Muchas love. The shading is impeccable, but you still left in the details from your drawing. I love it.
I don't know if I'm afraid of being raped anymore. My body might feel fear, but they cannot truly harm my soul unless I let them. They might destroy me in physicality, but my mind will always be mine.
Stockholm Syndrome happens to those who suffer from fear of pain and loss. The people in the military tried to convince us we were shaming our families with our pathetic nature. They tried to brainwash us. I was afraid of things worse than physical pain. It was sheerly psychological. Though after going through that, I feel stronger. I feel like I could deal with it again with ease.
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The wonders of "multiply!" xD Thanks darling.
I do recall the whole events with Asshole that you wrote about some time ago. You're such a strong person, you know that. I LOVE YOU BEBE.
I really admire you for your ability to think that way. And I mean I suppose I believe what you say it true as well but I feel the body is so beeply interconnected with the soul that they're like the same thing. Sorta. It's complicated. x_X
My dad served in the Navy and actually he's said to me "The whole time I just kept thinking 'They can have my body but my mind is always mine.'" But then it comes back to the whole idea of the body, mind and soul are all the same thing to me, so I have trouble accepting those ideas and applying them to myself. Thus why I'm terrified of all that and yadda yadda. D:
I do wonder sometimes how I would react in those situations though. Speculating really never does any justice to reality. Yet I hope to the pit of my soul I never have to face that reality.
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Yes...I agree and understand. I think it's a terrible thing for anyone to be raped or tortured. The mind fears pain. But the soul overcomes it. To survive, the fear of pain and pain itself must be conquered. As women, we constantly experience physical pain through menstruation, etc. As human beings, are bodies decompose. I suppose the older I've gotten, the more I've realized that the human body is just a meat sac. When we cease to exist--no matter the belief system--the body is left behind unattended to rot. It's interesting to me. I've been around dead people often. I saw a dead baby one time in an open casket funeral. It used to disturb me greatly. Now it's curious to me.
Bodies are sort of like puppets we control. I thought back to the dark ages where raping, pillaging, and murder were commonplace. It was considered justified. And to be a woman in these times was to be someone who was as property. I wonder if these women suffered greatly from being raped or if they just sort of treated it like everyday life. I'm sure it was very terrible. Though to compare that society to ours--where for thousands of years it was considered "okay" to rape, steal, and murder--it's curious to me how we've changed and how these things have become phobic to us. Our value of human life is so much greater now then it ever was before. We take so much care to preserve even the most "meaningless" life. I think this is an evolutionary advancement personally. But remnants of our past still linger, as we clamber in a sliding fall towards barbarianism again.
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GETTIN' ALL PHILOSOPHICAL ON MAH ASS EEEEH.
I can't say I fear death or anything, I mean, to an extent I do, but not for the reasons most people do. It’s true this body is finite and I understand that, I think that’s why I’m so protective of it though. To me the world we see and the otherworld are the same, because there really is no separation between them other than what humans create in their own minds. As a result, this meat sac is just as important as my soul and also just an insignificant to reality as a whole. To me the individual is finite as well, me, the me that you talk to and that thinks about Prawns nonstop isn’t going to continue to another life or afterlife, no one is, not as themselves anyway, something will change once we die that erases who we are and turns us into a new person, or animal, or in nothing, whatever. Thus why life and the meaty reality is so important to me and so worth protecting and cherishing, because as Jessica Stephenson this is the only chance I’m going to get to experience it. I’m afraid of death because I’m afraid to lose this person not because I’m afraid I won’t continue. Everything continues, that’s just the way reality is. This person I am is really great, I really love it, I’m going to be sad to move on, thinking about it is sad now. lol
My spiritual views are so cynical yet so not at the same time, weird mix. :’D I’ve been writing down my spiritual musing more and more, I need to slap some of it up so people can get a peek into my brain.
And on the psychological health of women back in the day, we have to keep in mind we live in a world where individuality is praised (to an extent) and strength is a virtue (usually). Women of the past were taught from birth they were second class citizens, so any such wrongs done to them was considered, even by them in a way, as justifiable even if it was painful. So I think that while things were probably hard and there was a length to which women of the time weren’t happy (just like always) since this stuff was so rife it became mundane and thus normal. So, when something is normal, even when it’s very physically and psychologically hurtful, it becomes just another thing to deal with and even unimportant. I’m sure women still feared it, since it’s still a horrible thing to be put through no matter what the circumstances, but when your father marries you off to a man you’ve never met before and your expected to obey him unquestioningly there isn’t much you can do about it other than grinning and pushing through it and trying to make the best of what you have.
Or stab him in the nuts. That’ll teach that sonofabitch.
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I understand your meaning and I actually somewhat agree on your spiritual musing. I think that when we die, who we were is in a way erased. Not completely at first, but eventually completely.
I want to enjoy my time on Earth as a human being who lives, breathes, feels pain, makes mistakes, eats cheesecake, laughs with friends--that's why I write it all down. The beauty, the pain, the reality. I write it in my journal for myself and maybe so one day, someone can read it and feel my life as I once did. Even if I'm not living that life still, if I can pass on a part of the "beauty" of living I experienced to another person, that would be enough for me. In a way, it would be like never dying. Though at the same time, that's just a wish. I want to impact the lives of people in a positive way but not be remembered for who I was.
I'm not afraid of disappearing. I think of death as exciting, as another stage of life. That doesn't mean I'm going to go cliff jumping buttfuck naked. xD Just means that when it comes, it comes. I've resolved with myself that death is a part of life, just as the billions who have lived before us and are remembered as a whole, rather than individually.
As you've said, however, individuality is a part of today's culture. We all want to be remembered, none of us want to disappear. We worship the "uniqueness" of each perspective. I think this distances us from one another. If everyone has a unique opinion, where is the common ground? I would much rather agree with someone than to stand afar from them. This is what connects us as people and to lose that is to truly die and not be remembered. I think the more of us that stand together in agreement will be more likely to be remembered, even after we've died.
Even if this belief is something common like, "When I drink a cup of coffee, it warms my stomach. This soothes my soul, fills me up, calms me, giving me strength to fight my woes. That's how I spend each morning because something as simple as a drink gives me hope. When I have hope, I can solve my problems," it's still important. This aspect is something not often discussed but generally acknowledged. The aforementioned is a memoir of our lives that is preserved through a beverage. Isn't that strange and beautiful? I think it's fascinating.
In short, I am not afraid. The human race has seen thousands of years of birth and death. I am a drop in the bucket. That doesn't mean I won't try to live life the way I believe I should. I just see myself as an insignificant part of a larger reality; each snowflake can be admired among the billions separately, however. I encourage people to live what they believe. I also encourage wisdom over intellect. Without wisdom, we will be as nothing.
And for earlier women, that was exactly my point. They were raised to believe that this sort of behavior was unpreventable, just another facet of life. They were like property. In a way, I see it as a miserable existence. I feel the largest challenge would be to find happiness in chaos. But, as history has given us, women were still able to survive--thankfully--and preserved themselves through appreciating the little things. A meager existence, but it humbles me to think I have so much. I praise the women who fought for our gender-based rights. It's a beautiful thing.
Lulz. Nut-stabbing. Also a beautiful thing. >D Thank God men have a weakness we the "weaker" species can exploit!
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Whoaz nelly! Stockholm syndrome's funnn! Imma gonna lock you up in my closet and feed you a ruffle chip every once in a while^^
I can see you guys are having a lot of fun, mwaha. This pic is indeed fantabulous! I don't like that Cadaver guy, plus his name is scary XD
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If I had to have Stocholm's Syndrome for anyone I don't think I'd hate it so much for it to be you.
At least I'd have a good conversationalist.
ffffNo. He's a total asshole, I can understand why you don't like him. xD He's got a real attitude that one.
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Aw that's so nice of you, my precious, my pet, my prisoner^^ For that you're getting a meal today!
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Awww man DA screwed me over it didn’t send through my Stockholm syndrome comment the first time around bugger and I didn’t save what I typed D8<
.. ANYWHO …. Yesterday when you threw this up.. or at least when I first saw t I was all FUNNy I just told my dad about this mental breakdown like 20 mins ago XDD awwwww nothing quite like feeling love towards your kidnapper
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FFF DA does the to me constantly. I thought it was just my crapass internetz. D8
And wait, you told him about... Stockholmd Syndrome? I'm confused. xDD THAT'S PRETTY FREAKY IF TRUE THOUGH. Like I read jor mind and joo read mines. 8U
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YES I had JUST finished explaining to my dad what the symptoms were to Stockholmd Syndrome and all that .. then after I finished explaining to him I went upstairs to check out DA and then I saw this deviant all
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Mmmm you have some interesting roleplay scenarios. I like interpersonally dark roleplays too.
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Woohoo! They are just too much fun.
It isn't often I actually feel what my character feelings, yet it always seems to be the case with darker roleplays. It's like a drug or something. xD
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Yeah, same here. I really consider roleplaying, or at least in-depth roleplaying (as opposed to more superficial interactions or plots) to be a bit of an identity exercise, wherein one engages fragmented pieces of one's selves. And it IS pretty addictive.
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even after reading the comment thing i still think this is romantic.. im so fooked up...
I love conflict and hurtful love... story's
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LOL
Actually I do too, which may also explain why I use it so much in stories/roleplays. >.> Conflict is just too delicious not to like, even if it's cold and abusive. So we're both fooked! 8D
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where do you role play i wanna start trying to again
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At the moment I just RP through notes on here. :V Although I've heard good things about [link]
Been thinking of heading there myself.
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id like to start on there i was asked but i fail at writing so i shy'd away from it...
I wanna RP but i dont know how lol
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Well believe me when I first started roleplaying I was epic fail, it's just how everyone is. xD If you're with a good roleplayer they'll understand that help you improve.
If you're that scared you can start with me. I'm very forgiving of booboos, we all make them after all. 8D You just have to be willing to let me give critisism. I try not to be too critical, so nothing to fear. :3
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Pfff, have I given you any reason to be shy of me? ;D
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I just hate my writing?
how do we start RPing???
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pfff
Well we could brainstorm ideas and sort of cook up a general storline. Or whoever writes the first post could just give a random situation and from there just have our characters running around doing random shit and getting into trouble or something. xD
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ok well first off it should be written as if they are in D10 i think
um... i'll come up with something more i know..
(we cant even RP over AIM if we ever sign in at the same time)
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it can be in D9 or D10, doesn't really matter too much except for differences in security and housing situations. xD Whichever is easier for you to work with, I'm fine with either. c:
Yes yes we need to log in at the same time. We're always missing each other! >_<
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I think id like to work with them maybe right before they start movie to D10. kinda a little after the movie.
ok one thing off the list *scratches it off the check list*
which prawn would you be RPing with Elanor?
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Works for me! Shall be interesting! c:
Yeah, I think so. I'm just pretty vague on when this whole Caddy rp is taking place. I suppose it doesn't matter though since I'm sure El can get away every once in a while in that situation any way. So yes! xD
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woo! you made a chatroom to RP!! i say we hold a teaparty in there and everyone has to act like their D9 character
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Actually another lovely member did BUT WE TOTALLY SHOULD FFFF BEST IDEA EVER
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waha! im so full of ideas! and i should thank who ever made it but i dont know who did :S
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Twas *WooDeN-flAsHlIgHt :33
I'LL HAVE TO HAUNT THE BOARD TWENY-FO' SEV' NAOW. harhar
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ive already checked it twice no one was on it
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fff it won't load or I'd totally be there. x__x *keeps trying*
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I had a touch of that once. I always remidied it by having the female kick the male's lanky ass.
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It's like I only have two kinds of ladies, the kind that can easily get pushed around or the kind that'll eat your face if you look at them wrong. Need to EXPAAND! D:
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Try making one who just makes bread all thge time.
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